For seven years he lived in virtual isolation, shunned by his family and loved ones.

He lived most of his life in relative isolation, not becoming widely known until the 1980s.

Strictly speaking, the Guanches were the indigenous peoples of Tenerife, where the population seems to have lived in relative isolation up to the time of the Castilian conquest, around the 14th century ( though Genoese, Portuguese, and Castilians may have visited there from the second half of the 8th century onwards ).

Although the Decembrists lived in isolation, their scholarly activities encompassed Siberia at large, including its culture, economy, administration, population, geography, botany, and ecology.

Although one of the government's main aims was achieved – the Waikato was brought back under government control – the King Movement itself was defeated on the battle field and its influence was severely reduced .. For more than 15 years the king lived in isolation in the rohe potae, with no political influence beyond the approximately 3000 inhabitants and ignored by the government until they wished to put a railway through Maniapoto land

Many immigrants during this time lived in relative isolation and music sometimes obtained through subscriptions to newspapers and magazines, provided entertainment and a life line to civilization.

He lived most of his life in isolation, avoiding the public.

Firby's original name of Fritheby ( Frith-by ) might have been chosen purely to denote the fact that this new plot of land was free of the disturbances which erupted in the Battle of Fulford and the Battle of Stamford Bridge, which was the climate within Auduid had lived before conveying Grimston to its Domesday holders and moving here in the relatively peaceful isolation of Swaledale.

This position is supported by Sensei's own statement ( albeit in jest ) that his suicide would be, " through loyalty to the spirit of the Meiji era ", while earlier in the book he had explicitly connected his isolation with the times he lived in: " loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves ".

While Booth toured frequently in the United States, his family, which grew to 10 children, lived in great isolation in relatively primitive conditions, despite the grand name he and Mary Ann gave to their residence.

Niedecker was born on Black Hawk Island near Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin to Theresa ( Daisy ) Kunz and Henry Niedecker and lived most of her life in rural isolation.

In a garden estate on the outskirts of Zhenjiang, the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo ( 1031-1095 AD ) lived the rest of his days in isolation, where he wrote his famous Dream Pool Essays ( 1088 ).

Liz Phair has explained the concept of the album, saying " For me, Guyville is a concept that combines the smalltown mentality of a 500-person Knawbone, KY-type town with the Wicker Park indie music scene in Chicago, plus the isolation of every place I've lived in, from Cincinnati to Winnetka.

He theorized that the survivors lived in complete isolation from each other and developed separately.

Here most of the slaves lived in relative isolation, separated from the rest of the colony by a high mountain range known as the Massif.

Stubblefield later lived in a self-imposed isolation in a crude shelter near Almo, Kentucky and eventually starved to death on March 28, 1928.

However, she became miserable due to her choice shortly thereafter, and for the better part of the year, has lived in a reclusive isolation from her peers at school.

Because they had lived so long in claustrophobic isolation, the Gliders ceased to Recognize and there for ceased having children.

# Stanley attempts to dictate a wish that George cannot ruin, and wishes that he and Margaret were two pious people who lived in isolation from the " false glitter " of the big city and would always be together.

From the earliest times there were probably individual hermits who lived a life in isolation in imitation of Jesus's 40 days in the desert.

Given the isolation of this region, the inhabitants tend towards self-sufficiency, and until recently lived in almost complete autarky.

She lived in isolation, not even being told the name of the island where she was living, and it took her some time to find out who her landlord was.

Since then, the Tenggerese lived in near-complete isolation until recently.

Veteran rock performer RAY HIGH has lived for about two years as a recluse in plush isolation, dreaming about Gridlife, a musical project he abandoned in the ' 70s.

The relative geographical isolation of the Brandywine population makes for a limited choice in mating.

The photograph, Figure 1 of the completed frieze, shows how, having been separated from his fellows in useless isolation for eighty years, he has now been given a hand, and by juxtaposition ( and the permission of the Committee ), given a new job, to represent the witnesses of the first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903.

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh | Lord Rayleigh's method for the isolation of argon, based on an experiment of Henry Cavendish's.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and genocide claims for 1915 – 1918 events made impossible relations with Azerbaijan and Turkey, thus increased an isolation of the country.

While modelling atoms in isolation may not seem realistic, if one considers atoms in a gas or plasma then the time-scales for atom-atom interactions are huge in comparison to the atomic processes that are generally considered.

Those either are not found in proteins ( for example carnitine, GABA ), or are not produced directly and in isolation by standard cellular machinery ( for example, hydroxyproline and selenomethionine ).

Temperature and vibration isolation may be required for some instruments.

He was held in isolation for four months.

AVMs may occur in isolation or as a part of another disease ( for example, Von Hippel-Lindau disease or hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia ).

The conquests of Cambodia by Naresuan the Great for Ayutthaya furthered the political and economic isolation from Cambodia proper leading to a dialect that developed relatively independently from the midpoint of the Middle Khmer period.

Franjo Tuđman's government started to lose popularity as it was criticized ( among other things ) for its involvement in suspicious privatization deals of the early 1990s as well as a partial international isolation.

Though some trade restrictions were lifted on the north to alleviate economic isolation for the Turkish Cypriots, further negotiations have not been a priority.

In the American south, the crossbow was used for hunting when firearms or gunpowder were unavailable because of economic hardships or isolation.

The prosecution tried to present the poster to the jury in isolation for consideration as obscene material, but Judge Susan Isacoff ruled that the poster must be considered along with the music and lyrics.

When the Israeli nuclear program started later that decade, a location not far from the city was chosen for the Negev Nuclear Research Center due to its relative isolation in the desert and availability of housing.

According to a supposition, the peculiarities of this language may be the result of a supposed long isolation from other Eskimo groups, being in contact only with speakers of unrelated languages for many centuries.

The simplest additive mixers are simple resistor networks, and thus purely passive, while more complex mixers employ active components such as buffer amplifiers for impedance matching and better isolation.

However, few real-world applications exist in closed isolation, and it is for this reason that two or more closed systems cannot be compared using enthalpy as a basis, although sometimes this is done erroneously.

Because of the large local market for films in Russia, the industry there was not harmed by the war at first, although the isolation of the country led many Russian films to develop peculiarly distinctive features.

EOKA-B and the Turkish Resistance Organization ( TMT ) were responsible for many atrocities which resulted in cementing tensions and led to total isolation of the communities with Turkish Cypriots withdrawn into enclaves.

Its features included isolation of victims from the outside world, elaborate roll calls and work details, the use of force and executions to extract obedience, and a strict disciplinary code for the guards.

The reason is that this treatment requires nuclear radiological expertise and facilities, since the animal's urine, sweat, saliva, and stool are radioactive for several days after the treatment, requiring special inpatient handling and facilities usually for a total of 3 weeks ( first week in total isolation and the next two weeks in close confinement ).

One tool of earthquake engineering is base isolation which is increasingly used for earthquake protection.