Sentence examples for surrounding compound from inspiring English sources

The show is set in the Shrine in 1978, when Kuti has just returned to Lagos after six months' exile, following a brutal army attack on his club and surrounding compound.

Mullah Omar's prized palace, in the desert on the northwest outskirts of Kandahar, was one of two targets when America opened the ground war in Afghanistan with a Ranger raid on a remote airstrip and a simultaneous attack by special operations forces, complete with AC-130 gunship assaults, on the palace and surrounding compound.

Almost immediately, the surrounding compounds emptied out, and the streets filled with Yorubas and Hausas armed with machetes and guns.

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Two years later, the Student Total Learning Experience Policy was introduced whereby the campus and its surrounding compounds are regarded as learning space for the students.

The army said it was surrounding the compound to prevent any fleeing gunmen from seeking sanctuary there.

He said there was heavy security surrounding the compound, mainly the Afghan Army.

The streets surrounding the compound were packed with protesters, curious Bangkok residents out for a stroll and dozens of vendors of fried chicken, noodles, T-shirts and souvenirs.

The laboratories at the Ministry of Agriculture, built in the 1920s, have broken windows, and a chain-link fence surrounding the compound is ripped.

As they filed against the 8 metre high fence surrounding the compound, banging and kicking against the steel, their noise created a deafening roar audible to the refugees.

The older man had also stopped reporters from talking to the local youths who climbed on top of a low wall surrounding the compound and sat there for hours, staring at the journalists inside.