They had planned to enter the German Embassy, but they discovered that the imposing compound sits behind a high wall on one of Beijing's major avenues.
The Guardian's Beijing bureau chief, Lily Kuo, has travelled to Luopu County in Xinjiang where residents are reluctant to talk about the imposing concrete compounds where people from Muslim minorities, mainly Uighurs, are sent against their will and without trial for months or even years.
There has also long been tension among diplomats over whether the "Fortress America" approach of building imposing diplomatic compounds is less productive than allowing personnel to circulate in the countries where they are posted and permitting visitors to arrive at embassies without off-putting body inspections.
Philip II's very consciousness of his divinely imposed obligations, compounded by his almost pathological suspiciousness of the intentions and ambitions of other men, had led him to deprecate independent initiative by his ministers.
Then, on the 3rd of August, they arrived in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, where they were frogmarched into a holding cell in the city's General Security Directorate – an imposing American-built compound where Iraqi Kurdistan's worst criminals are held.
For example, it represents metabolic compounds by "imposing" the functional groups considered important.
Squads of marines, armed with heavy machine guns and mortars, have dug foxholes in a wide ring around a rudimentary airstrip and a central white-walled compound with imposing guard towers on each corner.
But pull into the bustling headquarters of W Industries, a compound of imposing black structures at 8 Mile and Hoover Street, and you'll encounter a more hopeful vision of Detroit's future.
Although the expression of MT has been reported to occur under stress imposed by organic compounds [ 31], MT are mostly known for being related to the metabolism of toxic metals [ 20].
Predictably, fungal species commonly exhibit high tolerance to the toxins produced by their host species, evidence that defense compounds impose significant selective pressure on plant-associated fungi (Carter et al. 1999; Osbourn 1999; VanEtten et al. 2001; Bailey et al. 2005; Saunders and Kohn 2009).
