The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.
Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.
Overnight successes are generally years in the making. And most progress is made in isolation, far from the public eye.
I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.
From 1949 to 1953, I studied towards the diploma in Natural Sciences at the Swiss Polytechnical School in Zurich. It is in the last year of this study that I made my first contacts with fundamental research, when working on the isolation and characterization of a new isomer of Cl34 with a half-life of 1.5 seconds.
The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.
Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.
There's an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us.
National isolation breeds national neurosis.
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.
The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation.
I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.
I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with everyone.
Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained complacent about its lack of sporting prowess.
It's important to have quiet time and isolation.
I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.