This year organizers were so worried about potential civil unrest that they considered moving the fair to Victoria Falls, the magnificent -- and relatively isolated -- resort city, where it would have been insulated from it.
All the agony we're witnessing is largely caused by the self-selected few who are insulated from it.
We are isolated from death, we are insulated from it, and we don't see it even with the death of family members.
You, personally, may be insulated from technological unemployment, but you will not be insulated from its effects across the economy.
Those who are most concerned think supporters of immigration are insulated from its more challenging consequences.
YOU may have thought that if anywhere would be insulated from the financial chaos, it would be Dubai, the ritzy commercial capital of the oil-rich Gulf.
In October, when Wall Street was already wallowing in the financial crisis, many in the technology industry still thought they might be insulated from the worst of it.
It's a different party now – and Burnham says that he's taken advice from leading counsels to say that healthcare could be insulated from competition law because it would Labour would "restore the legal basis of a national, democratically-accountable, collaborative health service".
Is Al Gore's candidacy so fragile that it should be insulated from challenges by third-party candidates, as you suggest?
There's a reason for this: economists often argue that the Fed, like the Supreme Court, must be insulated from the political process so that it can make necessary but unpopular decisions.
