Sentence examples for insular countries from inspiring English sources

Under Mr. Niyazov, Turkmenistan was among the world's most insular countries.

One of the most insular countries in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia has emerged from being an underdeveloped desert kingdom to become one of the wealthiest nations in the region thanks to vast oil resources.

It was also an insular country.

"When I first came to Korea, this was a very insular country.

Yet it has foreign-exchange controls befitting an insular country, and pressures are mounting to get around them.

The once insular country now actively encourages tourism, and travelers come from afar to enjoy its hospitality and unspoiled landscapes.

Long the most insular country in Europe, it is also the poorest and one of the most politically turbulent.

FOR those South Koreans who want to transform their sometimes insular country into an Asian financial hub, July 3rd was a momentous day.

The Philharmonic also made the news in October when it was invited by the government of North Korea to perform in the insular country.

The Thirteenth Dalai Lama, who barely escaped an assassination attempt allegedly by his own regent, recognized his insular country's vulnerability to the highly organized empires and nation-states of the modern world.

According to this train of thought, rejecting the oriundi is akin to sending a message to the world that Italy is a parochial and insular country intolerant of difference.