They may also be people at risk of rejection by their families, persecution by their governments, isolation by the social structures meant to protect them.
If Basra falls, as now seems likely, the Iraqi government's isolation will be sharply accentuated.
The new government's isolation grew, potentially perilous for an impoverished, aid-dependent country.
Islamic terrorists, he warned, seek "to break our will and blackmail our government into isolation".
The government's isolation grew Wednesday as Turkey joined an expanding list of countries in expelling Syria's envoys.
Ultimately, therefore, it is intellectually difficult, and perhaps impossible, to identify the most appropriate level of government in isolation from the most appropriate policy itself.
Their demands followed calls from prominent, neutral business leaders from the Scottish Chambers of Commerce and Institute of Directors for clarity on Salmond's alternative currency plans, increasing the Scottish government's isolation on the issue.
If they're not stopped, the terrorists will be able to advance their agenda to develop weapons of mass destruction, to destroy Israel, to intimidate Europe, and to break our will and blackmail our government into isolation.
In Nevada, these experts say, a long legacy of low-tax, libertarian government, rural isolation and a steely tradition of self-reliance have combined with a population growth of more than 60percentt in the last decade that has left little sense of community to create a huge range of challenges to the state's mental and physical health.
As the NATO military alliance intensified attacks in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, including a new round of daytime raids, senior officials meeting here acknowledged reports that Colonel Qaddafi's son Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi could be seeking a negotiated exit and said that repeated entreaties reflected the government's isolation and weakness, despite public defiance.
