1.   A serious Decline of leadership in local affairs compounds the difficulty.

2.   Paradoxically, the relative unimportance of money in Soviet society compounds these difficulties.

3.   She felt a bit like some one caught in quicksand, whose every turn only succeeded in further compounding the difficulties.

4.   Their effect was to compound the difficulty the liberal leadership had in bringing pressure for reform to bear upon the regime.

5.   To compound the difficulties, the track itself is a figure-of-eight, with a dizzying number of twists and turns.

6.   A reduction in Scotch production would seriously compound these difficulties.

7.   Such difficulty is compounded by the fact that Britten wrote the part of Grimes with Peter Pears in mind.

8.   To add an American dimension to the British and Irish elements would only compound the difficulty.

9.   Such difficulties are compounded by the complexities of dealing with children who are bilingual.