Israel's growing isolation in forums such as the UN is a gnawing worry.
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His new film, which he adapted from a novel by Matthew Quick, is indeed about such serious things as desperation, spiritual isolation, obsession and confusion.
And it has sought to reduce its social isolation by such measures as sending cadets from the Santiago military academy to one of the city's universities for some of their courses.
It's possible that health conditions related to stress such as anxiety, depression, and isolation from friends and family may be linked to heart disease, but there's no evidence they're linked to high blood pressure.
More work remains to address persistent causes of undercounting, such as poverty, mobility, language isolation, low levels of education, and general awareness of the survey, in addition to duplicate counts among the elderly and college students living away from home.
Intel will be tacking on extra features that corporate buyers crave, such as the ability to remotely access computers and run programs in isolation so that the system is less crash-prone.
Moreover, billions of analogues will eventually become digital immigrants, whether for fear of social isolation in rich countries or, in developing countries such as India and China, because they will be able to afford to.
Other patents deal with the isolation of enzymes important for industrial processes, the isolation of cellular compounds that guarantee unique properties (such as resistance to extreme pressure and salinity) and the discovery of mechanisms ensuring resistance to extreme temperatures and toxicity, these extreme properties being of interest for both biomedical and industrial applications.
Rashwan said such a policy is as short-sighted as the U.S. isolation of Syria.
Its isolation from public opinion makes it vulnerable to nasty surprises such as the explosions of unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang.
Many Britons of Indian descent trace their origins to Gujarat, and London says British interests, such as boosting investment ties, are better served by engagement, not continuing isolation.
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Paradoxically, Taiwan's diplomatic isolation helps: its aid agencies can plead neutrality in countries such as Myanmar.
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The more moderate ministers, such as the vice-president, Ali Osman Taha, argue that ending Sudan's diplomatic isolation is more important than winning the war.
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Without outside influences, microbial communities in these environments can continue to evolve in isolation - developing novel solutions to the problems that plague their soil counterparts, such as competition and the desire to fight for resources.
Both the president-elect and his secretary of state-designate have said they want to abandon the silent treatment and isolation of previous administrations and try engaging Iran, as a way of resolving difficult issues such as its nuclear program and its influence in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We can't say for sure how much of that benefit is down to the yoghurt and how much they are down to a whole range of infection control procedures that the hospital has in place such as the deep cleaning programme, the bare-below-the-elbow programme, and the increased isolation procedures, " Ms Heyes said.
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