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In a harshly worded article Russia's Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper Friday, Mr. Khodorkovsky said he felt pity for the prime minister, whom he described as feared and self-isolated man.

Medvedev Hails Obama After Treaty's Ratification Greg White 2010

Thus, we have spawned this image of unkempt, self-isolated and generally ill-tempered race clowns roaming about with shady White segregationists who won't tell them how they really feel to their face.

Charles D. Ellison: Revenge of the Black Republican Nerds 2010

Life for those self-isolated in the farthest mountains went on with a kind of timelessness, as the resourceful people built cabins, hunted the towering forests, made quilts, had clog dances and sang the ballads of Shakespeare's time.

Gail McGowan Mellor: The Hanged Census Worker: Why Appalachia Hates Feds 2009

The coming together of war-weary nations in the West and the falling apart of the bellicose, backward, and self-isolated empire in the East enhanced the prospects for global governance.

The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

The fact that only this sort of overgrown child shows up here to “defend” ID only proves how cowardly and self-isolated the IDers really are. harold

Dembski and Common Descent - The Panda's Thumb 2007

He makes a deal that turns out to be dirtier than it seems to get illegally dumped on Vanar, knowing next to nothing about the self-isolated culture and assuming that the worst thing that can happen to him is deportation.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

A close analysis of the Branch Davidian community in Waco in the period before the FBI and BATF entered the scene reveals it not as a tightly self-isolated group of fanatic believers, but as an independent community with regular interactions with the neighboring individuals and communities.

A Darker Place King, Laurie R. 1999

Here is the amazing spectacle of a self-isolated people, begirt with the active life and thought of our eager times, yet sharing neither.

The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889 Various

For the time being, Belarus remains self-isolated from the West and its open-market economies.

The 2001 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

For the time being, Belarus remains self-isolated from the West and its open-market economies.

The 2001 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency