Sentence examples for from insular from inspiring English sources

Poker's status as pop phenomenon, a game that burst from insular casinos to become a fixture of cable television and attracted Hollywood card sharks like Ben Affleck and Tobey Maguire, is in trouble.

Terry prowls them all, from insular TriBeCa (where the World Trade Center towers still cast ghostly shadows) to showy Riverside Park (where the bigger the dog, the grander the owner's apartment), watching for clues -- not always to urban crimes, sometimes just for hints on how to walk and talk like a living person.

These results suggest that MT integrates interoceptive input from insular cortex in the context of value computations of both primary and secondary rewards.

Diversity in marine environments is characterized by phases of rapid diversification followed by plateaux, i.e., an equilibrium model [2 4] directly derived from insular biogeography theories [5, 6], whereas diversity in continental environments is characterized by exponential growth.

Much of the country saw itself as a unified coherent nation with its traditions under siege from insular power blocs who were back-scratching each other all the way up and down the seaboards.

She is active in her lower Manhattan community and is a Board member of Footsteps, an organization helping young men and women from insular orthodox communities who choose to join a more secular world.

Aunt Stormy, who met Annie's mother on the East End of Long Island when they came from Germany as au pairs, also expands the story from the insular experiences of Annie, Mason, Jake and Opal.

Digital, single-channel, high-resolution seismic reflection profiles were acquired from the insular continental shelf of North Carolina, USA along a data grid extending from Oregon Inlet northward 48 km to Duck, North Carolina and from the nearshore zone seaward approximately 28 km (total surveyed area=1334 km2).

On the basis of these observations, we hypothesize that injuries along the pathway from the insular cortex to downstream sympathetic centers may remove tonic inhibition coming from that insular cortex leading to unchecked sympathetic outflow.

From afar, the solution may have seemed as simple as China breaking from its insular past but for those within the government, like Tsiang, the logistics of regime change meant a perpetual state of anxiety.

The very act of a male moving away from his kin and community (e.g., brideservice) is a tremendous leap from the insular patterns in other apes.