The latest outrage was the encirclement of the city, cutting it off and isolating it from its environment through barricades. |
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Successive administrations have proven adept at devising strategies for isolating offending regimes. |
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Usually the design process involves taking messy reality and isolating its abstract essence. |
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How are we going to work together as a community rather than dobbing on each other and isolating each other. |
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It's us isolating ourselves together, disconnecting ourselves from everything going on around us in order to make this art. |
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Cancer is a devastatingly isolating disease, both for patients and their carers. |
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A seal is achieved with closed cell foam gaskets appressed to both surfaces of the leaf isolating a small area. |
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Nevertheless, I think that Davis' basic approach of isolating subsystems of causation is extremely fruitful. |
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In addition, it has corroded the sense of community between the workers, isolating people rather than bringing them together. |
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This change is attested in Kamti Tai, a tonal and isolating language spoken in Myanmar. |
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We experiment these models on Classical Chinese, a typical isolating language. |
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Most likely your veterinarian or local aquarium store will recommend isolating your infected fish or disposing of them. |
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Sea levels rose, covering the continental shelves and land bridges, splitting up and isolating populations and individual species. |
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They accused the chancellor of isolating Germany internationally and eroding the country's diplomatic room for manoeuvre. |
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Instead of isolating people and making them feel like outsiders, it should be an agency of inclusiveness. |
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In the aridlands of North America, several isolating events are evident in the phylogeographic patterns of birds, mammals and herps. |
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The Soviets achieve a long-desired southern strategic goal, isolating Turkey, opening a route to the Indian Ocean and the Eastern Mediterranean. |
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All languages have something like nouns and verbs, isolating objects, entities, events, and abstractions. |
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Already now in Australia we're isolating strains which have low level resistance to vancomycin. |
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Before an atom's spin may be measured, however, it must be detected, and isolating an individual ultramicroscopic atom is a tricky endeavor. |
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Japan reported an outbreak in early January, isolating farms and culling birds. |
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William F. Buckley and other mainstream conservatives spent years isolating and discrediting the Birchers. |
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Because practitioners create safety locally, efforts to forestall errors by isolating practitioners from the system will misfire. |
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Direct inoculation of culture plates at the bedside is the most efficient means of isolating shigella from the dysentery patients. |
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Other tasks included identifying and isolating minefields and unexploded ordnance that ringed the base. |
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One example is in isolating a person or making him do demeaning tasks well beneath his abilities. |
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The machines are controlled from a column of six isolating switches and two stop buttons. |
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She was being ridiculous, isolating him like this, all because of one teensy tiny stupid little question that he wished he'd never asked! |
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The technophobes have always worried that technology is isolating us but surely the opposite is happening. |
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Setting up you own business can be very satisfying and fulfilling, but it can be very lonely and isolating and is very hard work. |
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It is one of the best resources for isolating some of the earliest refinements by cheats for shooting craps and for cheating at roulette. |
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It is as if just by isolating language on the page, introducing a certain spacing and lineation, the words are made to speak in a new way. |
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Improvements in MSR technology will provide amplification of the reflected signal in addition to simply isolating the bit. |
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All seek a modus vivendi as a means of diluting extremist attitudes on both sides and isolating the rejectionists in their own communities. |
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It would thereby be possible to establish decapacitating properties of the fractions, this being a prerequisite for isolating from them certain substances with decapacitating activity. |
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Were they to amend their posture, they would only be further isolating themselves. |
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She cites military tactics of isolating and compartmentalizing as a way to deal with the transition. |
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By first isolating individual strands and then reassembling them back into fibres, chemists make fibres with as few defects as possible, making them much stronger. |
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Just imagine the consequences of a kinesiologist isolating specific muscles and selectively injecting designer genes into those muscles to maximize their function. |
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Language is useful for delineating acceptable discourse, for isolating some and including others. |
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Being the only single person in your group can be isolating. You start to wonder why you haven't got a partner and this can knock your self-esteem. |
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Nomani said her activism, which took root before the emergence of social media, has often been lonely and isolating. |
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It may seem isolating, but many people are ambivalent about the death of an intimate, says Jean Miller, a thanatologist at the University of Rhode Island. |
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Identifying patients with an infection, isolating them, and providing quality care, are the key methods needed to stop Ebola. |
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So would allowing women a greater role as decision-makers in the Church rather than isolating them further. |
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How the medical community is cutting out abortion training and isolating the very doctors that women need most. |
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Thanks to the convergence of the information and genome sciences revolution, we are already on the threshold of isolating and characterizing virtually all useful genes. |
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Grief is isolating, dividing the mourner from anyone who has yet to endure grief. |
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Shock isolating means protecting a component from these sudden jolts by mounting it with a shock-absorbing material like neoprene or natural rubber. |
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Getting my work done required isolating myself in the quietest corner of the library. |
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While fundamentalists waste time arguing that we were hand-made by God, scientists and entrepreneurs are playing God by isolating and marketing the very substances of life. |
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And so the North Koreans would only succeed in isolating themselves further if they're somehow trying to gain negotiating leverage or their own October surprise. |
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Batman resents Superman for disbanding the Justice League and retreating into isolating. |
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After the circulating nurse cleanses the patient's skin with a povidone-iodine solution, the scrub person and surgeon place sterile drapes, isolating the abdomen. |
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The intelligence traditions of hierarchy, compartmentation, and isolating consumers from producers are currently limiting the effectiveness of this technology. |
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Music defines place not by isolating it, but rather by opening its borders so that different genres, styles, and repertories cross the borders and cross-fertilize one another. |
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It's also so jam-packed with pop culture references and media lampoons that it runs the risk of insulting or isolating the very audience it is trying to entreat. |
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Model parameters have been estimated from experiments isolating thermal and desiccative stresses. |
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The manual method of isolating bacterial strains from a sample is called the streak plate procedure. |
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Hawaiian, like the Polynesian languages generally, is an isolating language, so its verbal grammar exclusively relies on unconjugated verbs. |
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Isolating the compound is one set of costs, and isolating the potential contaminator is another. |
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A purely isolating language would be analytic by necessity, lacking inflectional morphemes by definition. |
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Chinese is a very analytic or isolating language, having almost no inflectional morphemes. |
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However, this policy of artificially isolating the Manchus of the northeast from the rest of China could not last forever. |
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There is another difficulty in the way of accepting metaphysical peculiarity or progenitiveness as isolating species. |
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New to the WV series is the model WV448 bridge or strain gauge input, isolating signal conditioner with TouchCAL technology. |
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Hanafi's framework recognizes the shortcomings and limitations of isolating or hierarchizing the self and the other. |
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Pope Pius VI never accepted the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, further isolating the Church in France. |
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By isolating these two main types of relation, hyponymy and incompatibility, we can characterize the relations between a large web of items. |
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Finally, from a distance of two miles, Ariovistus cut Caesar's supply line, isolating his garrison. |
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Each filament of combustible pulp is ensheathed in an isolating tube, and these tubes are then bound into cable-like trunks. |
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The pleasantly smushy-edged earcups on this new model do an excellent job of isolating your ears. |
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From clover they are isolating isoflavonoids, which can be used to treat menopausal symptoms. |
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Napoleon hoped that isolating Britain from the Continent would end its economic dominance. |
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Once finished, the next sleeve is opened, concurrently isolating the previous stage, and the process repeats. |
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He had roller-coasterish mood swings and would disappear for a few days at a time, isolating himself, feeling suicidal. |
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The greater the overall ratio, the less isolating and the more synthetic the language. |
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A language is said to be more isolating than another if it has a lower morpheme per word ratio. |
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An isolating language is a type of language with a very low morpheme per word ratio and no inflectional morphology whatsoever. |
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After 36 hours of combat at the bridge at Najaf, the Iraqis were defeated, and the key bridge was secured, isolating Najaf from the north. |
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Instead of isolating the small British garrison there and pressing on with his main force to Dimapur, Sato chose to capture the hill station. |
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The goal was to seize the Lake Champlain and Hudson River corridor, effectively isolating New England from the rest of the American colonies. |
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Brown captures the isolating netherworld of loss and grief, but Happier Endings is anything but maudlin. |
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Languages such as Mandarin Chinese that never use inflections are called analytic or isolating. |
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The technique involves linking DNA from a cell with the transcription factor protein, then isolating the complex through a process called immunoprecipitation. |
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Fascial Stretch Therapy, which targets connective tissue rather than isolating individual muscles, has been shown to improve flexibility by up to 200 percent. |
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On 13 June, the Germans were across the Seine in the west and the French armies near Paris fell back, isolating the Tenth Army on the Channel coast. |
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Compartmental fasciotomy and isolating a muscle from neighboring muscles interfere with myofascial force transmission within the rat anterior crural compartment. |
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Fleming was the first to push these studies further by isolating the penicillin, and by being motivated enough to promote his discovery at a larger scale. |
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The influence of Old Norse certainly helped move English from a synthetic language towards a more analytic or isolating word order, a deep change at the grammatical level. |
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German attempts to reinforce the attacking troops failed, due to British artillery observers isolating the advanced German troops with artillery barrages. |
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Currently the most widely used isolating language is Vietnamese. |
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Yet isolating the PHY chip alone does not totally isolate the node. |
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This had the side effect of isolating Point Roberts, Washington. |
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A related concept is the isolating language, which is about a low number of any type of morphemes per word, taking into account derivational morphemes as well. |
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Almost every production facility can benefit from improving PID control, but isolating a handful of 'bad actors' represented a significant challenge. |
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In World War II, the United States, during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, invaded and occupied the islands in 1944, destroying or isolating the Japanese garrisons. |
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But after years of failed attempts at isolating herpesviruses from cervical cancer cells, researchers discarded the herpes option in favor of the papillomavirus. |
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Mandarin Chinese is an isolating language without inflections. |
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Lateral lumbar DEXA has the advantage of isolating the body of vertebra from the ankylosed zygapophyseal joints, anterior or posterior syndesmophytes. |
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The DBA's job quickly turned to spending most of the time identifying, isolating and eliminating these hot spots, sometimes hundreds of hours to eliminate just one. |
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The forms he has captured by isolating and framing the letterform details are like artworks, expressive of the oversized and colourful spirit of the Kumbakonam streetscape. |
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This can be seen particularly in Africa, where optionality or absence of plural marking is found particularly in the isolating languages of West Africa. |
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Isolating and analytic languages tend to coincide and are often identified. |
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Isolating languages contrast with synthetic languages, where words often consist of multiple morphemes. |
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