Sentence examples for being islands from inspiring English sources

Right answer: The most likely places for U.S. intervention in the next four years are five islands: Cuba, Taiwan, Indonesia, North Korea and Iraq -- the latter two being islands unto themselves.

For all Lansley's talk of foundation trusts being islands of independence, within months of coming to power he felt obliged to sanction an £18m loan to a struggling trust in Berkshire.

Design and development of Industrial automation systems are undergoing rapid transformation from being islands of automation to large network of Reconfigurable, service based systems.

Surrounding Sicily are islands producing interesting wines.

National parks are islands today.

Instead, there will be islands of kiosks.

Today's apps are islands.

Instead there are islands of power distributed throughout the network.

There are islands of stalls.

Others are islands within city limits.

All the "objects" are islands.