"Far from achieving its stated national security and economic development goals, North Korea's provocative and destabilizing actions have instead served to isolate and impoverish its people through its relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile capabilities," he said.
Instead, by seeking to isolate Mr. Arafat diplomatically and to put pressure on him militarily, Israel is trying to "transfer the dilemma to the Palestinian people," said Danny Ayalon, the prime minister's foreign policy adviser.
He says that one of Leonardo's sketches played with "the idea of placing John asleep on Christ's breast" — the way he was often traditionally depicted at the Last Supper — but that Leonardo ended up having John lean toward Peter instead in order to isolate Jesus spatially in the composition.
Instead, proponents try to isolate the "relevant" constituents of truthbearers through meaning analysis, aiming to uncover the logical form, or deep structure, behind ordinary language and thought.
Instead of joining to isolate Iran, Turkey deepens its relations with Tehran.
China should see the Dalai Lama as "part of the solution" on Tibet instead of trying to isolate him, US President Barack Obama's top Asia adviser said Friday.
The Portuguese forces launched a direct assault on the town, hoping initially to capture a key fort, San Cristóbal, but after 22 days of unsuccessful attack, the Portuguese abandoned this plan and began to build a circumvallation wall around Badajoz instead, to try to isolate the city.
Instead, the government decided to isolate Mr. Arafat completely, and to demand that he surrender about 20 Palestinians with him whom Israel described as terrorists.
A flashing red light that signals the American policy aimed at isolating Iran in order to curb its nuclear ambitions appears instead to have begun to isolate the United States.
