Like England, Japan also has drawn its civilization from its neighbors, and then, under the isolating influence of its local environment, has individualized both race and culture.
The isolating and intermediary aspects can be traced in the anthropo-geographical effects of every peninsula, even those which, like Brittany and Cornwall, project into the long uncharted waste of the Atlantic.
Such a fate repeatedly threatens these people, but has thus far been warded off, now by the protection of an isolating environment, now by the diplomatic intervention of some not disinterested power.
It would be difficult to exaggerate the unfortunate influence of this in retarding Spanish development, yet it was but the first of a series of measures which, by isolating Spain, crippled its energies in every direction.
Safety, indeed, could only be secured by resolutely isolating himself from his family and his race.
The one which I finally succeeded in isolating was an engaging organism with a provocative manner and a little way of wrinkling up its ectoderm which put you at once at your ease.
The importance of simultaneous contrast is easily demonstrated upon a painting by isolating any colored object from its surroundings by means of a hole in a gray card.
The confusion theory depends upon attention and begins with the difficulty of isolating from illusory figures the portions to be judged.
Perhaps the observer devotes himself more or less consciously to isolating the particular feature to be judged and finally attains the ability to do so.
From this point of view language has been divided into three great groups: the first, that of isolating languages, wherein the monosyllabic roots all retain their meaning, and wherein the relations are only expressed conventionally, i.
Experience shows strikingly the advantage ofisolating patients suffering from contagious diseases; here at least the State, in the interest of the community as a whole, must sternly limit individual liberty.
The artist sees what we had not learned to see; by isolating and perfecting this bit of the ideal, he directs our attention to it and teaches us to love it.
The English fleet cruised round the island, supporting the Austrians and isolating the Spaniards, none of whom were permitted to withdraw before peace was made.
Here we clearly see the isolating and esoteric character of a scheme which despises what ordinary understandings can quickly master, and which had rather proceed from the ideal to the tangible, than mount from the tangible to the ideal.
But it is important to realize that hiding our feelings and isolating ourselves frequently are not in our best interests.
Added to an animal's self-isolating tendency is the tendency to hide the very signs of illness or injury.
Only the self-isolating spirit says: 'Am I my brother's keeper?
The first sin was in Eve's isolating herself and choosing to seek her own pleasure without regard to God's will.
The self-isolating spirit cannot conceive how perfectly love and holiness can make their own the sin of the race of which they are a part.
But whatever of truth there is in this objection is due to the self-isolating nature of sin.
But isolating America cannot be an immediate post-war policy; if we plan to withdraw, we virtually hand over the world to revolution and hand ourselves into moral and financial bankruptcy.
To meet these challenges, we are helping to write international rules of the road for the 21st century, protecting those who join the family of nations and isolating those who do not.
It can achieve its ends by isolating us and swallowing up all our allies.
There remains, therefore, the first or isolating stage only in which Semitic and Aryan speech might have been identical.
The power of composition, which is retained unimpaired through every stratum, can at any moment place an inflectional on a level with an isolating and a combinatory language.
Everywhere amalgamation points back to combination, and combination back to juxtaposition, everywhere isolating speech tends towards terminational forms, and terminational forms become inflectional.
Remark this: A nation isolates itself looking forward to the possibility of war; but is not this very act of isolating itself the beginning of war?
The process, considered chemically, is simply that of isolating a pure cellulose, and we endeavoured to give due prominence to this view in the original work.
Processes of isolating cellulose are really more strictly defined as methods of selective and regulated attack of the groups with which they occur, combined or mixed.
The paper contains some observations on the various methods of isolating this product.
As a matter of fact it is the only method yet available for isolating the cellulose from a lignocellulose by a treatment which is quantitatively to be accounted for in every detail of the reactions.
The power of thus isolating one's self completely from all the surrounding world is very difficult to acquire, and no one possessed it to the same degree as his Majesty.
First, then, here we have Christ isolatingthe man whom He wanted to heal.
Krannhals[52] succeeded in isolating ten different keffir bacteria among which were several sporulating bacteria.
Hutchinson, bacteriologist at Rothamsted Experimental Station, has also been successful in isolating a bacillus from English market milk resembling in every particular those classified by White and Avery as type A.
The second author worked on the interspecific relationships and isolatingmechanisms in Panama (Fouquette, 1960b) and later studied the species in southern Mexico.
Isolating mechanisms in three sympatric tree frogs in the Canal Zone.
If hybridization did occur, the differences in mating call subsequently were enhanced, thereby providing a valid isolatingmechanism in sympatric populations.
Its essential opposite--or its contradiction in essence--is a privilege, an attempt at isolating a case from others.
And that's why the third big question that we have to answer together is how to keep America safe and strong without either isolating ourselves or trying to nation-build everywhere there's a problem.
Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy.
Koch disputed this, but more recently Bollinger has demonstrated the correctness of Pasteur's views by isolating anthrax contagium from five per cent.
To Winogradsky and Percy Frankland belongs the credit of separatelyisolating the nitrous organism on the surface of gelatinous silica containing the necessary inorganic food.
But it was not till 1876 that Koch finally settled the matter by isolating the bacilli in pure culture and describing their biological characters.
But even the adoption of this isolating method seemed to give no better results, and for an excellent reason: the nitrifying organisms will not grow on gelatine.
Cautley[53] has recently been engaged in isolating from poisoned foods the different species of bacteria present.
In that year, however, Koch greatly added to our knowledge by isolating a spirillum from the intestine and in the dejecta of persons suffering from the disease.
If we pass to an isolating language like Chinese, we find the exact converse of that which meets us in the polysynthetic tongues.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "isolating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
