"If we win in Paris, it will give us an 80%-plus record for the year and there have not been many occasions when the Boks have managed that in the post-isolation era, so I will be very happy with that".
Back in the day, if there was a case in New Orleans, and there was another big case in Dallas, unless the New York Times or The New Yorker or CBS News descended upon that story and did it nationally, how would the rest of us have known about it?" The relative isolation of that era helped keep things quiet, made it harder for people to connect the dots.
This study describes changes in donor and islet isolation variables by era and factors associated with quantity and quality of final islet products.
Perhaps Shostakovich's Soviet-era isolation from the Western world saved him from the adulatory afflatus young British composers have suffered in the last decades, for instance.
It can only restrict their dialogue with the wider art scene and push them back towards the old cold war-era isolation.
South Africa is still feeling its way in foreign policy as it reaches beyond its borders after decades of apartheid-era isolation.
Shaking off decades of apartheid-era isolation, South African executives, both black and white, are moving north to buy struggling banks, rebuild rundown railways and bring first-world technology, including cellphones, cash machines and locomotives to an impoverished continent.
Telkom, which has spent four years trying to transform itself from a relic of apartheid-era isolation into a nimble player in global telecommunications, was supposed to lead the way.
The international team of scientists drawn from Europe and the United States involved with Mars-500 is seeking ways to avoid the mental breakdowns or worse that could result from such prolonged monotony in part simply by locking people into the Soviet-era isolation chamber and observing what happens.
Cold War-era isolation, along with trade and travel embargoes, remain the status quo.
Compared with the isolation of the Soviet era, Russia's integration into international bodies has been stunningly successful.
