To contain polio, hospitals confined children like Tenley, allowing only minimal contact with the outside world.

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For much of the time, the men had only limited contact with the outside world.

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It said the prisoner was held incommunicado, receiving no visitors and without any contact with the outside world.

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During the Conclave, cardinals reside within the Vatican and are not permitted any contact with the outside world.

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Other exploration blocks overlap reserves for indigenous groups, including some that have no contact with the outside world.

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The workers spent 17 days before they were able to establish their first contact with the outside world.

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It was he who first established contact with the outside world on August 22, 17 days after the mine collapsed.

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Contact with the outside world was even tougher - colleagues had to try several times to get through to me, and I could make no international calls.

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They said his cell, at the U.S. Consolidated Navy Brig in South Carolina, is only 9 feet by 6 feet, and until recently, al-Marri was allowed little contact with the outside world, including his family.

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This was a time before mobile phones - the only contact I had with the outside world while I was driving was the standard car radio in the dashboard.

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