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The paper argues that Abu Dhabi's hydrosocial cycle cannot be understood in isolation of a consideration of energy, and, consequently, that the infeasibility of isolating water from wider physical, economic and social influences in complex contexts challenges previous approaches to the relationship between water and state power.

"The really important thing to realize is that nothing can be understood in isolation," Ms. Brookner said.

"The water really can't be understood in isolation from soil and the plants that grow on the soil.

In terms of code-breaking, I came across a fascinating example recently of how engineering cannot be understood in isolation.

And so on: all the arts echo and borrow from the others, and simply cannot be understood in isolation from each other.

Weber demonstrated that the comparative method was essential because the behaviour of institutions in societies could not be understood in isolation.

Such a combination, however, could complicate efforts to understand, in isolation, the effects of calorie restriction on humans.

And so perhaps Mr. Obama's presidency, as it reaches its midway point, is best understood not in isolation, but rather as part of a longer and still undefined political moment.

Cure is often understood in narrowly biomedical terms in isolation from the social and psychological dimensions of illness.

A dialogic relationship between person and world is assumed which means that we cannot understand people in isolation and so must always take into account the context in which they live.

Of course, the outlook for Syria remains highly uncertain, and the conflict there cannot be understood or tackled in isolation.