Sentence examples for home compound from inspiring English sources

Tanks reportedly fired on Machar's home compound in Juba, and his whereabouts are unknown.

Tanks were seen firing into Mr Machar's home compound in Juba.

Euphorbia tirucalli, a native tree that is widespread in home compound fences within informal settlements, is significantly declining as modern housing expands and concrete-based fences replace live enclosures.

Glimpsed through trees from the highway, the storage yard at first seems to be a do-it-yourself medieval fortress: scores of watchtowers, blast walls, sentry posts and barriers are stacked up in a field ready for delivery to whichever home, compound or neighborhood is next to be sealed off from the outside world.

Rank-related differences were evident in the way animals used their home compound and in their approach and responsiveness toward the stimuli.

He had, as she explained, called her in a panic, thinking that brigands were attacking his home compound.

Some officers themselves may be without power at home, compounding the strain.

In the very conservative Muslim districts of Afghanistan's southern provinces of Kandahar, Oruzgan, Zabul and Helmand, women rarely leave their home compounds.

For retirees like Herman McHan, who watched the value of his mutual funds fall to $35,000, from $70,000, or Sylvia Merlin, whose portfolio has lost nearly $200,000 of value, owning an interminably on-the-market home compounds the worries of their dwindling investments.

The possibility that more troops will be needed in Afghanistan presents the Obama administration with another problem in dealing with a nearly eight-year war that has lost popularity at home, compounded by new questions over the credibility of the Afghan government, which has just held an as-yet inconclusive presidential election beset by complaints of fraud.

"Employees feel miserable while at work and that misery follows them home, compounding their stress and putting their health in peril, the report explains.