11.   Chernomyrdin pledged to avoid backtracking on free-market reforms and retrenchment into Soviet-style economic isolation predicted by some.

12.   Chernomyrdin pledged to avoid backtracking on free-market reforms and retrenchment into Soviet-style economic isolation advocated by some hardliners.

13.   Eritrea on Tuesday accused neighboring Ethiopia of resorting to measures to ensure its economic isolation in the border conflict between the two Horn of Africa nations.

14.   European countries have warned that Iran could face further economic isolation if it refused to rescind the death sentence.

15.   Israeli officials have hoped that peace with its Arab neighbors would break decades of economic isolation in the region.

16.   The report comes following pressure from European countries on Iran to lift the fatwa, or face further economic isolation.

17.   The regime has reversed decades of economic isolation and opened Burma to foreign investment.

18.   There was even speculation in independent media that European leaders may punish the government with economic isolation.

19.   They must choose between one of the two sides, and the price of making the wrong choice could range from economic isolation to political de-stabilization.

20.   Then there is the economic isolation of this poor country.