Sentence examples for compound setting from inspiring English sources

The attackers opened fire on the buildings and threw homemade bombs into the compound, setting off small explosions.

It added that at least seven white phosphorus shells hit the compound, setting ablaze a warehouse located there.

In that strike, insurgents stormed a government compound, setting off a seven-hour gun battle that wounded more than 100 people.

On Australia's remote Christmas Island, 1,450 miles west of Darwin, boat people occupied a detention center compound, setting fire to a dining hall and challenging guards in an armed standoff, officials said.

Protests resumed, and in August 2008, thousands of anti-Thaksin demonstrators, known as yellow shirts, barricaded the prime minister's compound, setting up a tent city and demanding that the government be dissolved.

The explosion was at least the second major episode in the province since August, when suicide bombers attacked the provincial governor's compound, setting off a three-hour gun battle that left 22 people dead.

On 18 February 1977, more than 1,000 armed soldiers surrounded the compound, set fire to the generator, and brutalised the occupants.

Marine officers strutted about their headquarters compound, set up hours before in an abandoned building at the highway's edge.

Prosecutors have linked Sister Gertrude, 42, to other, even greater horrors at the sprawling religious compound set in the southern hills of Sovu, near the city of Butare.

This house — an architect-designed compound set at the end of a long driveway — costs $10,000 a week.

The compound, set at the end of a narrow dirt path, was set on fire just hours before the church inferno on March 17 in which at least 330 people died.