Sentence examples for country compound from inspiring English sources

He has a country compound in the quaintly named upstate New York town of Dairyland, and he recently picked up a colonial house in Merida, Mexico.

Yet the most important development yesterday may not be Tymoshenko's release, or even Yanukovych's departure from Kiev, but the one signalled by that look of amazement on the faces of those people at the President's country compound.

In the Crimea, demonstrators were on the streets demanding unification with Russia, which keeps a vast fleet in Sebastopol – just as their counterparts in Kiev were celebrating while storming Yanukovych's country compound.

He runs a baseball academy at his country compound in the small town of Pastaje, east of Mexico City, and often flies by helicopter to as many Tigre games as he can in Puebla, about 70 miles west of the capital.

For years, Thomas Newman, an admired composer of movie soundtracks, has collected ephemera from the places where he romped as a boy -- faded photos, vintage postcards, cartoons and other relics of the Uplifters, a spirited bunch of Los Angeles Athletic Club movers and shakers who bought land from the Methodists in the early 1900s and created a country compound in Rustic Canyon.

Country compound struck a chord.

And Gannett, the largest newspaper publisher in the country, compounded the grimness by announcing it was laying off 10percentt of its work force — up to 3,000 people.

More than 1,000 Soviet specialists have chosen to stay in Iraq to avoid a bleak winter in their country compounded by severe food shortages, Eastern European diplomats said today.

Record high water levels are putting the capacity of China's massive Three Gorges dam to the test after heavy rains across the country, compounding flooding problems that have left more than 1,200 people dead or missing.

The isolation that comes with being a veteran in this country compounded his experiences in war.

Zimbabwe experienced incessant rains in the first half of the 2007/08 cropping season during December-January causing severe water logging followed by prolonged dry spells, through much of the country compounding the devastating effects of a decade-long economic decline.