Sentence examples for was to isolate from inspiring English sources

The idea was to isolate Pablo.

Rather, the goal was to isolate Cuba and prevent it from becoming a Soviet military outpost.

My only choice was to isolate the offending chicken, which meant extending the run.

The idea was to isolate the breach, then plug the pipeline with inflatable balloons called stopples.

Fourier's insight was to isolate the regularity contained in what looks, in the real world, a tangled mess of complexity.

The goal was to isolate this risky trading and to prevent government bailouts.

The response of prison staff was to isolate her in the segregation unit, on one occasion for 20 days, as if her behaviour could be controlled by punishment.

Mr Bush said the US strategy was to isolate Iran until its president tired of the situation and opted to review his stance.

In the absence of a rigid class hierarchy, part of the answer was to isolate their kind within a series of epithets.

The next step was to isolate those trees by thinning around them, then cut them down and haul them out.

The chief method of combating plague was to isolate known or suspected cases as well as persons who had been in contact with them.