Some would have America retreat from our responsibility as an anchor of global security, and embrace an isolation that ignores the very real threats that we face.

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Under no circumstances, however, should FCC approval be granted in isolation from the national security and congressional analysis so clearly required by the proposed Tyco Global Network sale.

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This security centre will not work in isolation.

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The former head of British forces in Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Kemp, has warned that the country's security situation cannot be dealt with in isolation.

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When the story about Prisoner X first emerged, Israeli media said the unidentified man was being held in isolation at Ayalon high-security prison in Ramle, central Israel.

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What Syria and Iran really want - an end to isolation for example or a security dialogue - they cannot get from France or the Europeans, but only from Washington.

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He will serve his sentence at Oslo's high-security Ila Prison, where he has been held in isolation for most of the time since his arrest.

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Security Council resolutions, to get right with the international community and thereby rejoin the international community and end its isolation from the world because of its behavior.

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