Sentence examples for insular with from inspiring English sources

In a village that is extremely insular, with no television sets or radios, Mrs. Taubenfeld was widely known.

These new awards reveal changes the fashion world wishes to make to become less insular, with catwalk designers no longer the pinnacle.

It wants to do something about that.Coppers have long been seen as insular, with a tendency to cover up colleagues' misconduct.

Water Mill, snail-paced and insular, with far fewer late-night dining options, "is a different kind of precious and rare," she said.

Malaysia is both mainland and insular, with a western portion on the Malay Peninsula and an eastern part on the island of Borneo.

Some considered it a breath of fresh air for an event that can be dull and insular, with scholars spending much of their time reading and discussing their work with one another.

Phillips, 46, a scratch player, won the La Moye Trophy and the La Moye Club Championship last year and has twice represented Jersey in the annual inter-insular with Guernsey.

Changes in pre-meal hunger and prospective food consumption with overfeeding correlated with changes in insular activation with overfeeding (t = 1.33, p = 0.09 and t = 2.00, p = 0.03, respectively).

The woman, who left the community just over two years ago when her marriage ended, said: "This is a very insular community with very little contact with the outside world.

During the last glacial stages of our glacial age, plants and bees had to retreat repeatedly into regions with a warmer climate or insular areas with better survival conditions (Ellenberg 1996; Schroeder 1998; Ruttner 2003).

It may seem a forlorn hope that an insular nation with a habit of threatening its neighbors with nuclear weapons would cooperate with the international community (and its enemy of 50 years) to preserve nature.