"Equally, if not more so, it's an attempt to isolate the Iranians".
America's long-standing attempt to isolate Cuba both commercially and diplomatically has been an utter failure.
Nor does he ignore the work of scholars who valiantly attempt to isolate historical voices in this blended text.
Washington's response to Putin's designs on Ukraine has been to attempt to isolate him and force him to back down.
So the West will fall back on lesser, diplomatic measures in an attempt to isolate Russia within the international community.
And yet, beyond such general intuitions as these, the attempt to isolate his special contributions often becomes self-defeating.
At worst, it might be interpreted as an attempt to isolate the Israelis, sweep them under the carpet as if they do not exist.
Chita is more than 3,000 miles from Moscow, prompting his lawyers to complain that the relocation was an attempt to isolate him.
Sounding off irritably, with no attempt to isolate the offending factor from legitimate behavior, fails to create change and may itself constitute a nuisance.
In the meantime, his statistical studies, by recording the variety of what men actually do, end the old attempt to isolate a few individuals as "perverts" and "deviants".
In 1947, he was assigned to Germany, where he directed the Berlin Airlift that thwarted the Soviet attempt to isolate Berlin as the cold war was breaking out.
