1.  Compounding the sense of anxiety are the Olympic Games, which will create even more competition for audiences in late July and early August.

2.  Compounding the sense of unease among nationalists has been the warm reception the outline has received in mainstream unionists circles, especially from the Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble.

3.  It also compounded the sense that the nation lacked a fully functioning leader during one of its gravest crises.

4.  Such uncertainties have compounded a sense that an engagement is a less than legitimate relationship.

5.  The German courts compounded her sense of violation by letting the man go free.

6.  Fear of crime and distrust of the government in Moscow compound the sense of helplessness, she says.