Sentence examples for geography isolation from inspiring English sources

Hardy named Portland the Gibraltar of the North, with reference to its similarities with Gibraltar; its physical geography, isolation, comparatively mild climate, and Underhill's winding streets.

Disaster risk in New Zealand is amplified by island geography, isolation, and ubiquitous natural hazards.

To account for variability in the response variable (genetic distance or divergence), we estimated the contribution from both geography (isolation by distance) and environment (isolation by environmental distance (ED) or adaptation) using partial Mantel tests and spatial (environmental) autocorrelation.

All six VNTR loci were amplified from all of these clinical isolates, which varied in geography of isolation and host.

Although Darwin as a young thinker was well aware of the importance of geography and isolation in evolution, he chose to minimize its significance when he finally published his On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection in 1859.

Now Bojam wants to liberate them from the constraints of geography or the isolation of their rooms.

Flores' volcanic geography and relative isolation in the middle of the Atlantic make it a place of stark contrasts between the sea and sky, and the food that the locals pull out of the ocean (and raise on the land -- volcanic soil means great stuff for cows!) is absolutely sublime.

Instead, novel solutions for spanning distance with newer and cheaper information technology are becoming critical tools in practical social justice, mitigating the disadvantages of rural geography and the isolation of poverty [ 67].

More recently, alternative approaches model population structure in a geographic continuum, capitalizing on the correlation of genetics and geography expected in isolation by distance models (Price et al. 2006; Wasser et al. 2007; Yang et al. 2012; Baran et al., 2013; Elhaik et al. 2014) and observed in many organisms (Guillot et al. 2009; Storfer et al. 2010).

The clustering of GT1a isolates was not attributed to geography or time of isolation, but a number of clade-informative sites were identified within the NS3 protease, NS5A domains 2 and 3, and NS5B (25), which is consistent with our observations.

But the Maldives is where the rich, famous and notorious go for their private romantic getaways, and the isolation, unique geography and no-questions-asked visa policy of the Indian ocean archipelago offers rare freedom from prying eyes.