But its increased economic insularity is more likely to be a natural function of its financial predicament. |
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To his credit, there are Indianisms still in Narayan's work, untouched by any putative editorial insularity. |
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So it may seem odd to hear complaints about the insularity of our publishing industry. |
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He said there was still a lot of work to do in the region, especially getting rid of the insularity of each island. |
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The fear of leaving home and the retreat behind familiar walls make for a short walk to insularity. |
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He has criticized most French economic historians for their insularity, both for sticking to their national history and for avoiding cliometrics. |
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It is a severe comment on the insularity of Spenserian scholarship that hitherto no Spenserian has recognized the portrait of Dee. |
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The result is an impasse, which is normally the case when blind insularity meets common sense. |
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You will be hounded and pilloried by the institutional left, ruled as they are by a parochial insularity and dogmatism. |
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But China's diverse folk art reflected the insularity of Chinese society and the great distances that separated different parts of the country. |
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Political stability and international insularity also led to socio-political stagnation in certain areas. |
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Ornithologists describe them as endemic, birds that have evolved into distinctive species because of the insularity of their habitats. |
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I'm still at a loss for a word to describe this stupid, thoughtless insularity. |
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The historic insularity and xenophobia of the Japanese have perpetuated a style of cooking relying on the indigenous ingredients of the country. |
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Framework programme projects help fight regional insularity and technological preventionism. |
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Just because such awareness does not automatically conduce to the cause of the neo-imperialists does not mean it can be explained away by petit-bourgeois insularity. |
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They seize it as their nearest escape from insularity, a vacationland and possible sphere of influence. |
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There's an airlessness and an insularity to the performance that saps it of some energy. |
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Watch the ways each occupies a chair, from Sam's pigeon-toed insularity to Lenny's crisp diagonal slouch. |
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The biggest worry for me is not insularity but empathic incapacity, which could have a significant impact on many people's lives. |
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It seems there is, even after all these years, no one‑shot practical solution to decades of entertaining, commercially successful insularity. |
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Serious miscalculations could mean a further retreat into impoverished insularity in the rainy mists of the north Atlantic. |
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Europeans must choose between insularity and paralysis, on the one hand, and openness and modernity, on the other. |
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Moreover, the remoteness and insularity of this region do not allow other sources of raw milk. |
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This, naturally, gave the economy great capacity for adjustment to fluctuations, and tended toward insularity in people's ideas. |
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It is a safeguard from a myopic vision and insularity through an outside perspective. |
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This imbalance is one of the main causes of the over-costs of insularity, since island users have to pay most of the return trip on their own. |
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The exclusively national nature of the competition also touches on another, fundamental issue: British insularity. |
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Instead of more openness in trade and investment, we see signs of increasing insularity. |
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He has spent years alleging bias and insularity in the scientific community. |
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This insularity is a long-held and well-known habit of this administration when setbacks happen, and it's not admirable. |
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The insularity of Washington, pressures of careerism, fear of appearing soft and the absence of institutional alternatives all contribute to a limiting of the debate. |
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In situations involving knowledge far less frivolous than a television programme, I've been astounded time and time again by ignorance and insularity. |
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The insularity of families nowadays has meant a definite loss to society. |
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Diary posits her as a threat to the insularity of the Monteils and their vapid way of life, a threat Moreau coolly limns in one of her most nuanced, restrained performances. |
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But insularity or provincialism in the literary community, he said, is nothing to sneer at. |
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All at once, unattractive qualities such as insularity, parochialism and downright arrogance were introduced into the previously contented continental mix. |
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In this context, the Council has set up programmes of specific options for alleviating the remoteness and insularity of these outermost regions. fields of social inclusion, pensions and healthcare does not become lost. |
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As provided for in the Poseidom programme, Structural Fund assistance was designed primarily to reduce the specific handicaps affecting these regions, and in particular their remoteness and insularity. |
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Australian intellectuals still show the types of insularity, monolingual arrogance and inward-turning that characterizes most national literary and cultural paradigms. |
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Similarly, it shall take account of the durable structural handicaps arising from insularity, mountainous terrain, or sparseness of population, in particular when they are accumulated or aggravated. |
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It is therefore appropriate to introduce specific supply arrangements to guarantee supply to these islands and compensate for the additional costs arising from their remoteness, insularity and outermost location. |
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Although Lyon is shedding its insularity and deference to Paris, it is still a racially divided place and very much a work-in-progress to become a truly cosmopolitan city. |
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The temptation of the hometowner is therefore the classic temptation of insularity, which equates interest with self-absorption. |
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This period saw a political alignment with the Eastern Bloc countries and a shift toward economic insularity. |
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In the case of agricultural inputs and products intended for processing, such aid should take account of the additional costs of insularity and small size. |
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While studying in Europe, Kino had accepted the insularity of California, but when he reached Mexico he began to have doubts. |
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Asks the Commission to undertake a review of state aids and the criteria used to determine the different levels permissible with a view to establishing insularity and other criteria as well as low population density. |
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But Brown has no interest in insularity or convenient resolutions. |
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While the Mauritius Strategy contains a comprehensive list of problems affecting small island developing States, these are not always related specifically to their small size and insularity. |
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This, suggested Birmingham street artist Mohammed Ali, had led to a greater defensiveness, an inward turn, insularity and paranoia, both within his community and toward it. |
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Should we go for national workshops that are likely to train more and cost less, but which could suffer from insularity and lack of diversity in debate and experiences? |
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The management of chemicals and POPs in Comoros is particularly difficult because of the insularity of the country and the narrowness of the treatment solutions available for hazardous substances. |
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These constraints mainly take the form of insularity, difficulties related to mountainous areas, sparseness of population and even constraints due to climate conditions. |
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Hence perhaps the insularity of England's blue-nylon machine, with its glazed and sealed hotel-room culture, slouching from lobby to breakfast buffet to meeting room, nannied by its cortege of wonks and fluffers. |
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In this the instincts of traditional green politics towards insularity and self-sufficiency, the cause of all those gibes about yoghurt-knitting, are completely mistaken. |
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