Tariq Reibl, Oxfam's humanitarian response manager for the Philippines, says that climate change will mean destructive storms, disastrous enough in isolation, will increasingly occur in procession.
The one thing it is committed not to do is share power with the Hungarian party; the feeling is mutual.The other potential partner from the previous opposition is the party of Vladimir Meciar, another populist who, as the country's authoritarian leader until 1998, presided over a disastrous period of isolation and corruption.
Yet Mr. Chávez, a democratically elected president, has been willing to tolerate international economic isolation -- with disastrous results for Venezuela's poor -- in exchange for greater power at home.
Disastrous inflation was the result.
The consequences of the new tariffs might not be so disastrous if they were imposed in isolation while the United States continued to pursue a general free-trade policy, as it did under Bush.
The Flamanville rescheduling is, in isolation, equally regrettable but not disastrous.
Mao was driving his nation deeper into isolation: the Great Leap Forward, his disastrous push for an industrial breakthrough, was already heading toward a famine that killed more than thirty million people.
And the fact that he spends most of the game marooned out in the bullpen could only have heightened his sense of isolation in the aftermath of his disastrous Sports Illustrated interview.
It is an isolation of the soul, created over generations of oppression, racism, and disastrous social policies that undermined the basic human rights of individuals, families, and entire nations.
