The phrase "act of isolation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific instance or action that results in someone or something being isolated or separated from others.
Example: "The act of isolation during the pandemic had profound effects on mental health for many individuals."
Alternatives: "instance of seclusion" or "process of separation".
No single order or military strike, no one act of isolation or disregard, will make the problem go away or send the despised dictator packing.
This was Arnatt's strength as a photographer: he understood how the smallest detail or observation could be transformed by the act of isolation.
But great dancing has no age limit: Robert Swinston, who joined the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1980, took on Cunningham's role in "Quartet" and epitomized, with searing simplicity, the act of isolation.
In a 2001 paper that contrasts teasing and bullying, an act of aggressive isolation, Dr. Keltner and colleagues from Berkeley discuss one experiment in which members of a fraternity at the University of Wisconsin came into his lab, four at a time, to tease one another, using barbed nicknames.
In an astonishing act of self-isolation, the Ming dynasty unrigged its entire heavy merchant fleet of 3,500 ships, and abandoned trade contacts by both land and sea".
It was an act of self-isolation that cut the Tories off from another mainstream EU power network, not as significant as London's refusal to join the euro – few pro-EU British politicians are still brave enough to call that a mistake – but an act of ideological pique.
These islands may subsequently act as drivers of isolation through epistatic or physical interactions to other loci in the genome resulting in expansion of non-recombining regions and, at the end, complete reproductive isolation [ 63], although some regions may stay porous to post divergence gene flow for significant amounts of time [ 64].
There cannot in all fiction be a purer single act of rage and isolation than this imploded revenge, the carom suicide: no simple murder of somebody else, no murder of somebody else to frame a third, no ordinary suicide that might leave others feeling guilty of some metaphorical murder by neglect.
Importantly, the effects of climate change on organisms will rarely act in isolation of other selection pressures.
This negative correlation of fitness across environments provides the phenotypic variation upon which ecological mechanisms of isolation can act.
Because genes and proteins do not act in isolation, one of the main challenges for 'Systems Biology' is to understand how cellular processes are functionally integrated at the molecular level.
