Sentence examples for isolationist period from inspiring English sources

In a long analogy, he compared the threat to Americans' freedom under Mr. Obama to the "great peril" of World War II and likened the present moment to the isolationist period when Americans were complacent about "this guy over in Europe".

This self-seclusion was not unique in the region -- Japan and China also adopted isolationist policies during this period -- but Korea held out longer.

US foreign policy has long been characterized by recurring periods of isolationist sentiment.

Yoshoku was born during Japan's Meiji Restoration, the period that followed this isolationist country's forced opening by America's so-called Black Ships in 1854.

Dennis's views gained particular currency in the late 1930s as a significant portion of the US rallied against America joining the war and he launched into his most prominent period as a forthright isolationist.

More than 40 years of communist rule under the isolationist dictator Enver Hoxha, followed by a ruinous period of extreme capitalism in the mid-90s, have left the country struggling to find its feet in the new millennium.

The Japanese government claims that the name Sea of Japan was internationally used since the 17th century and established by the early 19th century, during a period in which Japan was under an isolationist policy (Sakoku) of the Tokugawa shogunate, which restricted cultural exchange and commerce with foreign countries except China and the Netherlands until 1854.

Produced with superb craftsmanship and many stylistic innovations, the prints celebrate a flourishing Tokyo (known as Edo until 1868) a few years after Commodore Matthew Perry opened isolationist Japan to the West and just before the onset of the Meiji period, which propelled the country into modernity.

The Tokugawa shogunate enacted measures including buke shohatto, as a code of conduct to control the autonomous daimyo; and in 1639, the isolationist sakoku ("closed country") policy that spanned the two and a half centuries of tenuous political unity known as the Edo period (1603 1868).

"This isolationist Islam?

America had turned isolationist.