The announcement is likely to galvanize Britain's insular supermarket sector, which has been bracing for a battle since Wal-Mart paid $10.7 billion for Asda last summer.
The government is trying to create more internationally collaborative science by transforming the nation's insular higher education sector from within.
When the U.S. investment group Ripplewood Holdings took over the Long Term Credit Bank of Japan in March 2000, it wanted to show that Westerners could profit in one of the developed world's most insular and opaque sectors.
She questions whether "city" status might be too insular for the growing sector.
It should not surprise us if the energy sector is insular and resists innovation.
A sector regarded as insular and parochial will see its proportion of international faculty and students decrease.
Its relatively insular economy and financial services sector helped the country escape the brunt of the global economic crisis, and the challenge now is to capitalize on that advantage.
The results revealed a significant signal increase in the anterior sector of the right insular cortex extending to the operculum region (maxima x, y, z = 30, 26, 12; Figure 3b, P<0.05, corrected for small volume).
Until our politicians recognise the contribution foreign language skills make to trade, business and mutual respect and understanding, and then invest in modern language teaching across all sectors, we shall remain a largely insular and monoglot country exiled on the edge of Europe.
These convergent methods have implicated a distributed circuit including the ventral and medial sectors of the prefrontal cortex, the insular cortex, as well as the striatum, amygdala and parietal cortex (see Clark and Manes, 2004; Ernst and Paulus, 2005; Krain et al., 2006 for review).
We heard about an insular NHS that has been in fear of inviting the private sector in and what this might mean ie "giving taxpayers money to private shareholders".
