And this, once again, leaves the English in splendid isolation, hogging the world's soccer limelight.
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In the meantime, Hamas leaders seem increasingly content to enjoy the fruits of splendid isolation.
And it buys the splendid isolation, singular memories, and bragging rights you get from commandeering a town.
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"Quaint" doesn't begin to describe the settings:pounding surf, rugged cliffs, splendid isolation, sites of historic rescues and damp derring-do.
In the past, American grand strategy has been one of splendid isolation (from 1776 to 1941) or containment of the Soviet Union (1948-1989).
One of the limitations in a lot of traditional games studios is that they see the games industry in splendid isolation.
For hour upon hour I tramped in splendid isolation - and this in one of the most densely populated regions on Earth.
In the north-east both Middlesbrough and Sunderland have built impressive new stadiums, which stand in splendid isolation amidst a lot of empty ground.
British dreams of turning the Franco-German axis into a triangle may be little more than that, while the pound remains in splendid isolation from euro-land.
Such splendid isolation breeds self-sufficiency and a pervasive distrust of government.
For most of the 1980s and early 1990s, Britain's splendid isolation was not so much a policy failure as a permanent condition of life in Europe.
Those who relish that sense of freedom, and make the requisite sacrifices to enjoy it, will quite naturally ride to and from work in splendid isolation.
When Robert Poor looks at the world, he sees 50 billion embedded microcontrollers, the workhorse chips inside cars, traffic lights and air conditioners, doing their jobs in splendid isolation.
And even before the end of his premiership, the game of splendid isolation was over, as Britain had to seek alliances to compensate for her gradual decline in power.
Now, by going to war against Spain in the Pacific and the Caribbean, and by establishing what it thought of as a stepping-stone to the China market, the United States had abandoned its own splendid isolation and thrown itself into the worldwide struggle.
With shape-shifting scenery reminiscent of an eerie moonscape or the gnarled mountains of Caucasia, Durmitor offers visitors the most splendid of isolation, all just three hours from the coast.
Up until then, the 700 square mile island had been sitting in splendid sunlit isolation for about 10 million years, since it first emerged from the Indian Ocean in a series of volcanic eruptions.
As Britain sometimes boasts, isolation can be splendid and it can even be sensible.
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