In her retelling, the effort to deceive prison guards was quite deliberate: a great man was locked down in near-total isolation - "Daniel in the lions' den."

North Korea has a choice between abandoning all of its nuclear weapons programs or facing near-total economic isolation.

Some other states allow inmates to take recreation one at a time, restricting them to lives of near-total isolation.

Between 1936 and 1945, he was in near-total intellectual isolation.

Yet, their near-total isolation in the week after the hurricane seemed to tell a different story.

This is likely due to her self-imposed state of near-total isolation in order to interfere with as little of the environment around Haruhi as possible.

Their revolutionary strategies and organizations reflected not their leadership of popular protest but a near-total isolation which led them to resort to conspiracy and manipulation.

Then she'd spent three days in near-total isolation-"meditating," she'd said.

The lawyers further maintained that less drastic alternatives to near-total isolation were available, beginning with what they called "greater prosecutorial controls over leaks from police sources."

In 2013, one journalist reported that, in Obama's view, "with each new settlement announcement, Netanyahu is moving his country down a path toward near-total isolation."