While there has been some degree of progress over the previous 18 months, sexual preference continues to be an issue in the insular world of North American sports.
And, he said, the mother of a child in a wheelchair confronted Mr. Jungreis's mother-in-law, saying the same man had molested her son, and she "did not report this crime, so why did your son-in-law have to?" By cooperating with the police, and speaking out about his son's abuse, Mr. Jungreis, 38, found himself at the painful forefront of an issue roiling his insular Hasidic community.
For centuries, the low-level presence of pot in ports and insular communities was a non-issue.
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.
One of my main issues with football is how insular it is.
So far, he has shaken up the country's insular banking establishment by moving quickly to begin issuing licenses for the establishment of new Indian banks.
As it fragmented, it also became more insular and discrete from the outside world it took issue with.
In classrooms, ad-hoc teach-ins, and ubiquitous bull(shit) sessions, a previously insular community grappled — in ways novel, naïve, fatuous, and noble — with issues of race, class, criminal justice, and liberal hypocrisy.
To Mr. Cohen, the most pressing intellectual issue in the next decade is this tension between the insular, specialized world of expert scholarship and the open and free-wheeling exchange of information on the Web.
PARIS — Centuries after the Spanish Inquisition led to the forced conversion of Jews to Catholicism, an ultra-orthodox rabbinical court in Israel has issued a religious ruling that recognizes descendants from the insular island of Majorca as Jews.
It was a scene of anger and division over the issue of child sexual abuse that residents of the insular neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, said they had never before seen.
