The report recommends, among other things, the establishment of a mayor's Fund for Young People's Resilience and Inclusion, worth £3.2m, to help ensure that young people build the necessary strong social connections to battle isolation.
Although the movement has struggled to gain traction in Israel, where the ultra-Orthodox retain great sway over public life, the issue has deepened a divide between the Jewish state and Jews around the world at a time when Israel is battling international isolation over its settlement policy.
The title character of Kinney's eerie first novel battles isolation and workplace monotony.
To get even minimal recognition, Amazonian writers, whether from Brazil or neighboring nations, battle isolation and insularity.
I am part of a community of women who are still fighting isolation, battling anxiety, and facing mountains of unrealistic expectations because our society does not support mothers or families.
After more than a decade of managing my son's care, I was already familiar with the challenges and isolation of battling a disease that afflicts one in a million people.
Cameron has had to battle perceptions of isolation during the summit, after Parliament refused to allow him to join Barack Obama's drive for military intervention in Syria.
The protagonists — a slacker doing soul-killing temp work (Mr. Mercer), an animal-shelter worker and reality-TV nut who reads her cheating boyfriend's e-mail (Ms. Brownstein) and a thrift-store sorter (Renée Roman Nose) who finds a cremation urn among the donations — fight losing battles against isolation and the deadening effects of consumerist-conformist culture.
The result — soldiers battling their demons in silence and isolation.
Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone in 2014, has described the pain of battling the virus inside a hospital isolation unit.
