England certainly is an island, and it was water, as much as will, that stopped Hitler.
It is true that Bulgaria is an island of stability in the Eastern Balkans.
Such studies are a reminder that John Donne was right: No man is an island.
" But, he added, "Every laboratory is a team and no scientist is an island.
Manhattan, the heart of the city, is an island, separated from all the other boroughs by water.
Conservative rural affairs and environment spokesman John Scott said "crofting is an island surrounded by a sea of legislation".
No economy is an island and one as open as Britain's will be diminished by the bell tolling in Europe.
Indonesia is an island chain stretching for 6, 000 kilometers across Southeast Asia.
The Republic of Cyprus is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Indonesia is an island chain stretching for 3, 750 miles across Southeast Asia.
Socotra is an island of roughly 50, 000 people located 380km off the coast of Yemen, the country to which it only technically belongs.
When land is scarce and expensive you build close and high, and Manhattan is an island of solid street walls and shoulder-to-shoulder skyscrapers.
Just comparing Kenya with its neighbours shows that this country is an island of peace in a region that is home to civil strife.
At first glance, Tuvalu is an island paradise, 26 square kilometers of white sand and lush foliage in the Pacific Ocean, north of Fiji.
In these circumstance, Azerbaijan is an island of stability and development.
Jersey is an island - there is nowhere to run to, and I ran away several times, but the reality was there was nowhere to go.
Stilted guesthouses suspended over turquoise water, manta rays with seven-metre wingspans and friendly locals are all part of its charm: this is an island that time forgot.
This fantastical construct conveniently enables net neutrality proponents to claim that every technology is an island and must be economically-regulated to protect consumers from the benefits of competitive choice.
And if you go across the river to Ham, only a matter of a few minutes walk away from Teddington, there is an island of council housing, cut-off from the commuter trains and upwardly-mobile cafe bars.
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Less than an hour by ferry from the mainland, Mljet is an island of just a few hundred souls, a dozen villages, two tidal lakes and one solitary road that scrambles its way across the thickly wooded hills of the interior.
It is of an island people cut off from the wider world - isolated and exposed.
Unlike Cleveland, Pavlof is not on an island but rather is connected to the Alaskan mainland.
Lost on our maximum central banker is the simple truth that America is not an island.
In this way, our center is like an island of sanity, they live and work together, respect each other.
One of the holdouts is an unassuming island chain south of Cuba.
"At the beginnings and ends of these cold periods, archaic humans - Neanderthals - operated on what is now an island, " he said.
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