Sentence examples for efforts to isolate him from inspiring English sources
Those details about Zhao's confinement and the efforts to isolate him, collected in Philip P. Pan's excellent "Out of Mao's Shadow," come to mind this week with the posthumous publication of Zhao's memoir.
The questions focused on Dr. Sakharov's banishment in Gorky in 1980 in an evident effort to isolate him from Western contacts.
In spite of each effort to isolate him, however, Montazeri continued to attract followers: during his exile in Ṭabas, for example, tens of thousands of supporters traveled to meet him there.
When the West made a concerted effort to isolate him politically, he introduced regular forces into east Ukraine and gained a seat for himself as a "mediator" at the Minsk peace talks.
Mr. Morales's position has been enhanced by recent events, despite the United States Embassy's efforts to isolate and discredit him.
Marking a growing breach in Israel's efforts to isolate Mr. Arafat since it declared him an "enemy" on March 29, the Palestinian leader today met with the foreign ministers of Greece and Turkey.
The Venezuelan shipment flies in the face of international efforts to isolate Mr. Assad and pressure him to step down, but Mr. Chávez is no stranger to such controversy.
He also questioned whether Israel's efforts to "isolate" the Palestinian leader were not in fact strengthening him.
Those moves dovetail with Western efforts to isolate Mr. Assad after months of trying to get him to reach a peaceful solution to the uprising.
Obviously, my efforts to isolate General Noriega did not prosper — but I did what I could.
