At times the rebels seems to be acting in complete isolation.

No artist works in complete isolation.

I wasn't learning in complete isolation - there was a group of 10 or 15 of us who would get together for science experiments and museum trips.

For an astronaut on a mission to the moon, one of the upsides of almost complete isolation might be an escape from workplace pranks.

They had lived in complete isolation, uninterrupted even by the external cues of night and day.

The light in my isolation cell was always on.

In 2009, he was reported to be in deteriorating health while held in an isolation cell.

The bell-tower held the isolation cell for special prisoners.

The problem was solved by putting the two biggest hotheads in each their own padded isolation cell.

The passed law once again confirmed the ban on the meetings with attorneys and other persons while staying in the disciplinary isolation cell.

She was then put into an isolation unit to calm down.

She spent 12 weeks in an isolation unit.

But still there was fear of being in an isolation unit and working with people.

Or could the person be put in an isolation unit?

His isolation unit will now undergo a thorough decontamination and his 25,000 hospital bed will be burnt.

They lived here in relative isolation for more than 150 years.

The inhabitants farm sugar cane and mine surrounding salt fields in relative isolation.

For decades, translators used to labor in relative isolation over handwritten translations that were vulnerable to theft, fire, or natural disaster.

Without any familiar faces, long hours are endured in relative isolation and managers who change all the time provide little or no recognition, let alone reward.

For many centuries, the geomorphology of the terrain was responsible for the relative isolation of its populations.

Those in rural isolation can use their daily walk to forage for clay (websites can advise), which, depending on your oven's strength, can be fired.

But the price - urban gridlock, rural isolation, car dependence and the erosion of village life - was vast.

Most of these writers, for financial reasons, live and work in rural isolation.

Not a lot of people understand the rural isolation of a lot of the collieries, where entire villages were centred around the mines.

Now, at the age of 47, he lives in rural isolation with his family and an everexpanding menagerie.

Like my friend we have to shift our disposition and break free from self-imposed isolation.

Emerging as a virtual unknown from her long self-imposed isolation was painful.

Sanctions do not work on a country that, in its self-imposed isolation, has in effect sanctioned itself.

This self-imposed isolation has provoked a furious backlash.

As her self-imposed isolation receded, her confidence, and in some respects her capacity for political influence, expanded.

Days later, snows would cast the whole valley into splendid isolation until the spring melt.

Splendid isolation, or not so splendid, depending on your point of view.

It gets crowded at weekends, but on weekday mornings, you can bathe in splendid isolation.

I walked down and plonked myself in the front row, in the middle, in splendid isolation.

However, 4,000 lives of splendid isolation are about to change.

Increasingly, total isolation seems to be the only way to go if you are famous.

When you get the opportunity to do that, don't think you have to sit at your desk in total isolation.

Yet there's a halfway house between another person breathing your air and sharing your kitchen, and a state of total isolation.

He once spent a year working on one of his epic tomes in total isolation.

One worker stays there for twenty-four hours a day, working in a shift lasting several days, in total isolation.