1.   This policy could isolate the country from the other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

2.   These policies will only serve to isolate the country politically and economically.

3.   Isolating misbehaving countries, except in extreme cases, will only make them less stable and thus, a greater threat later to the United States.

4.   Mubarak also gave some support to the American position of isolating countries like Iran.

5.   The nuclear test could also scare away important foreign investors and isolate a country that only recently has begun opening its doors to the world.

6.   The outcome poses profound foreign policy implications for the United States, which has long sought to isolate the country.

7.   The United States certainly has a right to isolate countries whose political regimes it opposes.

8.   Those controls alienated many overseas investors and isolated the country financially.

9.   Pushing the Union to conclude the deal, Turkish politicians had warned radical Islamic groups could gain more support if the country was isolated by the West.

10.   -- Russian President Boris Yeltsin, accusing the United States and its NATO allies of trying to exclude and isolate his country.