11.   He is clearly risking renewed international isolation to crush a budding rebellion in this Serbian province by the ethnic Albanians who form its majority.

12.   He also warned Milosevic that he faces increased international isolation if he continues to use force to smother the unrest, European diplomats said.

13.   His years in power were marked by what many Slovaks regarded as cronyism and by increasing international isolation, but he is an ebullient campaigner.

14.   In recent years, Telecom Italia has had little luck in breaking out of international isolation.

15.   International isolation, led by the United States, has deterred badly needed foreign capital and industrial investment.

16.   Israel would risk international isolation to turn its back on such approbation.

17.   Others are contentious because of the economic collapse of the country and its international isolation.

18.   Prompted by the West, Djukanovic is quietly trying to draw his republic out of the international isolation it suffers as part of Yugoslavia while avoiding open confrontation.

19.   The country is emerging from decades of international isolation after the apartheid government collapsed.

20.   The doping scandal comes at a particularly sensitive time for South Africa, which is emerging from international isolation.