For the first thousand years of its history' the Isle of the Winds was deliberately isolated, cut off from all contact with the civilized world.

Two years later, the columnist William Pfaff first applied it in its current sense: "The Soviet Union had deliberately isolated itself.

They had deliberately isolated us in the desert, knowing that they would have only a few hours until the helicopter arrived.

You've deliberately isolated us.

For deliberately isolated and provincial cultures, the larger outside universe usually seemed terrifying because of the threat it implied for the existing social and philosophical order.

The center itself, however, is deliberately isolated, insulated with an impermeable, bubble-like protection from the real world.

Yet this administration has deliberately isolated us from the rest of the world, from its abandonment of the antimissile treaty to its policies on Iraq.

Ben saw at once that he was being deliberately isolated.

The Royal Family live inside the Forbidden Citadel, a bunker turned into an independent (and deliberately isolated) city-state from 2070-2114 before Justice Department took control.

They're deliberately isolated, territorial, and very, very aggressive.