Indeed, Asian automakers had been somewhat insulated from the pricing battles among G.M., Ford and Chrysler because many shoppers do not move between domestic and foreign brands.
Others there are among the exiles that are thus insulated from their ordeal; it is the same in Nuremberg as it is in Cincinnati.
Influential nuclear critic and MP, Taro Kono, went further, suggesting the power lobby's influence on the media, where it is among the country's leading advertisers, had insulated it from proper inspection.
In the early nineteenth century, Tudor began cutting ice from Walden Pond, among other places, and shipping it in blocks, insulated in sawdust, to Southern states, as well as to Australia, India, and South America.
Stamper's description of this culture is damning: "Military, bureaucratic, insulated, isolated giving rise to a real strong in-group solidarity among the officers, and that is more powerful than eight hours or even 60 hours of training".
Hypotheses based on virus survival have to account for the fact that indoor environments, where a great amount of interaction among hosts occurs in modern society, are significantly insulated from external conditions.
Dr. McCann said that the sisters' religious faith insulated them from existential suffering — the "Why me?" refrain commonly heard among those without a belief in an afterlife.
Over the past 60 years there have been 2.5m avoidable deaths among older people in England and Wales because of poorly insulated homes, according to the charity.
Apple is to some extent insulated from Chinese rivals' onslaught because it still has a high brand cachet among users - and a price to match.
That sense of urgency is also fueling further debate among policy makers in Europe and Asia about whether their economies are truly as insulated from American woes as many would like to believe.
