That is because in the summer, many rain forecasts materialize as isolated showers, which most people don't experience.
"The potential is there that this is not as isolated a phenomenon as we might hope it is, " he said.
That is the part of war that has made an impression on me, as isolated from it as I am.
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Do you see this as a nationwide movement or do you see these as isolated instances in specific places in response to specific conditions?
It used to be easy to simply ignore it as isolated issues but the interconnectedness of the Social Web makes it far from trivial.
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It would be easy to construe these as isolated cases of innovation and industry change, but I believe they represent much more: a mutation in capitalism itself.
Long thought of as isolated and poorly connected, some parts of the county now enjoy some of the highest broadband speeds in the country because of an EU-backed project to expand the fibre network.
But these cases were viewed as isolated incidents, and they were also overshadowed by glamorous headlines about Nomura's huge profit on its 80th birthday in 2006 and its takeover of Lehman Brothers' European and Asian assets in 2008.
Netanyahu's decision to torpedo a proposed law that would have prevented the implementation of the Supreme Court-ordered destruction of the Givat Haulpana neighborhood in Beit El has made these Likud members perceive themselves as isolated and in danger.
What is useful about neutrons for these experiments is that they are electrically neutral - within the experiment, they are as isolated from all the forces of nature as they can possibly be, with only gravity to act on them.
Although the President is trying to portray the incident as an isolated act of corruption, many Peruvians are interpreting the scandal as a return to the late 1980s when corruption was endemic.
It is unlikely that Iran will spend the rest of the decade as an isolated pariah.
He described it as an isolated case and said there was not a systemic problem at the prison.
Without Graham, the Vioxx debacle might have been seen as an isolated event.
And so we should not regard this conference as an isolated event to be held in June in Rio de Janeiro.
"However, I would like to stress that at this stage the aggravated burglary is being treated as an isolated incident, " he added.
These guidances likely would not have been issued if the federal regulators had viewed the issues they addressed as being isolated to a few banks.
So far, the situation of refugees and people living near the borders has been usually taken as an isolated fact, unrelated to the countries' bilateral relations.
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The report said it would be "naive" to view the case as the isolated behaviour of a "rogue celebrity" - but the "context of the 1960s and 1970s" needs to be recognised.
Jon Adler -- president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, which represents Secret Service agents and other federal law enforcement officers -- urged caution in jumping to conclusions, characterizing the incident as "isolated" and not necessarily a scandal.
The recent report by Mike Ozanian of Forbes that Major League Baseball is at once considering contraction of the Tampa Bay Rays and paving the way for Rays owner Stuart Sternberg to buy a stake in the New York Mets appeared to many observers as an isolated, if inevitable, case.
He described the shooting as an "isolated incident" and encouraged Torontonians to keep thinking of their city as safe.
Det Ch Insp Martin Brunning said officers were treating the man's death as an "isolated incident".
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Australia has lost, perhaps for ever, its happy sense of security as a relatively isolated country.
Even simple explorations can help identify basic issues such as bottlenecks and isolated groups.
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Ruthlessly exposed on 65 minutes, Briscoe was left isolated as Warrington broke for a certain score.
She complained of being neglected and isolated as a result of being so far from home.
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