"isolated passages" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is generally used to refer to excerpts or quotes taken from a larger text or sources. For example, "The professor cited several isolated passages from the original manuscript to support his argument."
They include isolated passages of near abstraction, zoomed in from nowhere in particular.
The Nation quoted only approximately 300 words from a manuscript of more than 200,000 words, and the quotes are drawn from isolated passages in disparate sections of the work.
Once more, isolated passages of legislative history that were themselves insufficient to establish a pre-emptive congressional intent do not by themselves establish legislative goals with pre-emptive effect.
It's a further anomaly that isolated passages of prose in the text are rendered in German (styled without umlauts, for some reason), when surely all the dialogue and the introspective material would have been in German.
Bacon spoke of "a complete interlocking of image and paint, so that the image is the paint and vice versa," but he attained that effect only in isolated passages, surrounded by dead space.
While certain isolated passages can be so read, taken as a whole what the Subcommittee said appears to us to espouse the position that the Commissioner's long-standing interpretation of the statute was correct, and that clarification was called for only because of the doubts caused by the Ninth Circuit's decisions, which this Court had declined to review.
And although, as Ms. Werner notes, Dickinson sometimes isolates passages of text within linear borders created by an envelope's folds and creases; more often, she writes over such borders as if they didn't exist.
After passage of the 1) S83 isolate, 2) isolates from the atypical scrapie case and BSE in sheep, and 3) 3 independent classic scrapie isolates passaged in Tg338 mice, the PK resistance of the PrPSc was measured.
We sequenced the complete genomes of 908 laboratxory confirmed influenza B virus MDCK or MDCK-SIAT cell propagated isolates passaged 1 4 times from eastern Australia and New Zealand using a novel methodology (Zhou et al., 2014).
In contrast to our results, Farrer et al. (2013) found fewer changes in chromosome copy number in their isolates after 40 generations (i.e., their control isolate lost a copy of supercontig 4 and gained a copy of supercontig 5 and their isolate passaged with antimicrobial peptides gained a copy of supercontig 5).
A former instructor at Tufts and Harvard Medical Schools, Glassman, 45, who is licensed in Massachusetts and Israel, has notably isolated biblical passages that spell out the very early usage of what he deems a sacred weed.
