Sentence examples for insular country from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

A surge in the number of people seeking asylum is a big political issue in Britain, an insular nation that has always felt the added security of having no overland borders with other countries, other than the one between Northern Ireland and Ireland.

The U.S. is by nature more insular than other countries with respect to new ventures.

In 20 years countries like Indonesia and Turkey will join the BRICs and Russia will be a stagnant, despotic, insular mafia state". on "Best frenemies", May 24th 2014.