Sentence examples for urban compounds from inspiring English sources

After the 1996 bombing of a housing complex in Saudi Arabia, in which 19 airmen were killed, American troops in Dhahran were moved out of urban compounds into more defensible desert bases.

ProTEST Zambia was implemented in two high-density low income urban compounds in Lusaka: Chawama and Matero.

Down an alley where a man was shovelling garbage into a wheelbarrow, I found Paracha in a back room of his urban compound, sitting on a cot strewn with pillows.

("I want to get everything on tape," he tells his captive creepily as he aims a camera her way, "so we can watch it all together when we are old".) The delusional Luis, chillingly rendered by Mr. Seda, presides over an urban compound whose members grow their own food in rooftop gardens and carry a vast array of weaponry.

Ward was a 13-year-old boy known as Birdie Africa when Philadelphia police, trying to dislodge MOVE from its fortified urban compound, dropped explosives on the roof.

Beginning in September 2010, leads had been followed to the Abbottabad urban compound and the U.S. began intensive multiplatform surveillance on it.

The impoverishment of coastal and inland marine areas could also accelerate the rural-to-urban migration, compounding the problems that the rural exodus has already engendered – overcrowding, the growth of slums, pressures on infrastructures, and a difficult transition away from the only lifestyle and livelihood that communities have known.

Increasing urban populations are compounding the problem, forcing officials to seek out increasingly distant sources.

Growing urban populations are compounding the stress on freshwater resources, and some cities have turned to extreme and expensive measures to get freshwater to its citizens.

By this Mr. Donovan meant that the historic calamities of urban renewal, which compounded the despair after the burning of the Bronx years ago, had caused many architects to shy away from the community sphere.

This study is believed to be one of the first to assess the impact of urban VOC- volatile organic compound) contaminated groundwater on river-water quality at the city scale.