Its isolated location provides the ideal context for studying the dynamics of insular evolution and natural selection.
As Mr. Husbands sees it, barbecue isn't the exclusive property of that insular community.
That change goes beyond the public ownership in what has been a remarkably insular operation.
But folks who constantly agree with one another grow insular, self-congratulatory, and not a little lazy.
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And yet, Japanese firms have remained largely insular, resisted change, and doubled down on existing strategies.
"Albatross" finds Goreas taking the vocal spotlight, singing sweetly while accompanied by insular, shoegaze-tinged fuzz.
It helps to be broad (and to be avoid being very insular) when building a career.
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It follows that it is easier to become an insular liberal than an insular conservative.
The real problem for American liberals is that they don't realize how insular they've become.
Some of their leeriness is cultural--a fast-talking money guy horning in on an insular society.
Look what Gerstner did for a once-insular IBM or Harvey Golub at American Express.
But France can be an insular nation, and Minitel never really spread anywhere else.
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These corporate institutions have been around for decades, and they have been somewhat insular.
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Flanery depicts the insular, insecure society of his white South Africans without apology and without condemnation.
Worse yet, insular decision-making and bureaucracy have eaten away at basic research, the genesis of innovation.
Insular and secretive, the Dolan clan has just 26% of the company but 76% of shareholder votes.
The company's insular, compartmentalized style of management has let it fall behind in too many vital areas.
Here is President Obama's dilemma in a nutshell: He is the most insular President we've ever had.
Farther up the coast, the insular island of Molokai, famous for its leper colony, hovers close offshore.
Insular urban liberal Democrats have little understanding how these kinds of gaffes hurt the president and the party.
Merck was as insular as any big drug company, and was widely criticized for denying Vioxx's heart problems.
Universal access to information must be pursued especially in remote areas such as rural, remote and insular areas.
The GVKBR consists of four clusters: Raifa Forest, Sarali Land between Rivers, Spassk Insular Archipelago, Sviyzhsk Wetland Area.
It lacks leadership in innovation and branding, and large state enterprises remain insular.
Fenelon knew, having run a company that supplied plastics to automakers, just how insular and risk-averse that industry is.
The Russian online market is insular and heavily-geared towards people who speak Russian.
This puts Obama and insular liberals like him at a substantial political disadvantage.
If you spent any time in Detroit in the 1970s through the 1990s, you discovered how insular it was.
Or, if we could ever get beyond the Kim kleptocracy, insular North Korea?
As an insular Brazil opens to the globe, other family-owned companies there are selling their operations to foreign firms.
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