I tried to insulate Abigail from that kind of thinking—I avoided the temptation to refer to Cinderella's Golden Carrousel as a merry-go-round, and I shouted "Hiya, Donald!" every time we got anywhere near Donald Duck but my wife was a consistently non-magical influence.
"I try to keep it all positive, and try to insulate them from the negative," Mr. Gill said.
They try to insulate them from risk or allow public investments to crowd out private ones.
At the same time, governments in those countries try to insulate consumers from rising prices with subsidies and price controls.
To try to insulate sponsors, which collectively spent $1.2 billion for the privilege, South Africa stiffened its trademark laws in the run-up to the tournament.
"You just try to insulate yourself from the air as much as possible," said Myllyvirta, a coal and air pollution expert.
To try to insulate judges from electoral pressures, some states ask voters to cast yes-or-no ballots on whether to grant them another term, in lieu of having judges face opposing candidates in regular multicandidate contests.
House leaders also proposed a provision to ensure that military service members would not be affected by a shutdown, an indication that Republicans will try to insulate themselves from political fallout if a shutdown occurs.
Our "desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves" are always fraught with the knowledge that the more we try to insulate ourselves from others, the more we prove those others exist.
The point of giving the secretary this guaranteed money was to try to insulate implementation of a crucial element of health reform from the highly politicized annual appropriations process.
