insularism

As changes of this kind eventuate-and inevitably they must, I think-the development and expansion of new and existing Canadian industries with attendant job opportunities will automatically result; for industrial insularism is not the answer to national growth.

A View From the North 1964

There was a time where Americans had this same confidence and strength of conviction yet it has been lost through infighting, laziness, ignorance, apathy, insularism and the desire for self-preservation.

Howard Steven Friedman: Are China and America Two Sides of the Same Coin? 2010

There was a time where Americans had this same confidence and strength of conviction yet it has been lost through infighting, laziness, ignorance, apathy, insularism and the desire for self-preservation.

Howard Steven Friedman: Are China and America Two Sides of the Same Coin? 2010

I am incensed at judicial insularism which has fostered "Haves" and "Have Nots" classes of New Orleans people!

VIEWPOINT: Calls for Impeachment of New Orleans Federal Judge G. Thomas Porteous; very sad time for "our court" 2007

But the opposite to insularism can be electrifying.

A View From the North 1964

At last the silence of these lonely meditations is broken by sudden recollections -- for dinner the cook had sent up a boiled chicken instead of roast, and he had looked upon boiled chicken as a vulgar insularism always.

Muslin 1892

Can we wonder that Americans have retorted with some asperity upon criticisms in which any approach to such insolent insularism is even remotely or inadvertently implied?

America To-day, Observations and Reflections William Archer 1890

At the same time it saw, and saw with a just pride, that its policy had as a whole been for the nation's good, that it had given political and religious freedom to the people in the very teeth of their political and religious bigotry, that in spite of their narrow insularism it had made Britain the greatest of European powers.

History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8) The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 John Richard Green 1860

The enemy was clearly at the gates of the central fortress of British insularism; even an American bishop was tempted to strive to understand

Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Lucia Gilbert [Commentator] Calhoun 1860

What made this unacceptable to the NSDAP was their insularism. "jobs for the boys".

Army Rumour Service 2010