1.   The argument that Ashcroft is concerned with saving lives is an empty one and one that compounds the suffering of those who are terminally ill.

2.   A howling wind tore plastic sheeting off wagons and brought dark, thundering rain clouds that drenched everyone and everything, compounding the suffering.

3.   His childhood suffering was compounded by a harsh form of Catholicism inculcated by parish priests who rained down religious threats on the poor lad sitting in the pews.

4.   Prudence Mbele, a South African AIDS educator, said ignorance and fear about the disease with which she was infected compounded her suffering.

5.   The suffering is compounded when corrupt officials hand out virtually worthless promissory notes in place of cash for crops the farmers are contracted to sell to the government.