Adjective : insular possessions. ,insular rocks. ,insular attitudes toward foreigners. From Dictionary.com.
As changes of this kind eventuate-and inevitably they must, I think-the development and expansion of new and existing Canadian industries with attendant job opportunities will automatically result; for industrial insularism is not the answer to national growth. From Wordnik.com. [A View From the North] Reference
But the opposite to insularism can be electrifying. From Wordnik.com. [A View From the North] Reference
I am incensed at judicial insularism which has fostered "Haves" and "Have Nots" classes of New Orleans people!. From Wordnik.com. [VIEWPOINT: Calls for Impeachment of New Orleans Federal Judge G. Thomas Porteous; very sad time for "our court"] Reference
There was a time where Americans had this same confidence and strength of conviction yet it has been lost through infighting, laziness, ignorance, apathy, insularism and the desire for self-preservation. From Wordnik.com. [Howard Steven Friedman: Are China and America Two Sides of the Same Coin?] Reference
What made this unacceptable to the NSDAP was their insularism. "jobs for the boys". From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
I then explained that because of this policy of insularism in the 1930s, they were persecuted. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
The enemy was clearly at the gates of the central fortress of British insularism; even an American bishop was tempted to strive to understand. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)] Reference
Can we wonder that Americans have retorted with some asperity upon criticisms in which any approach to such insolent insularism is even remotely or inadvertently implied?. From Wordnik.com. [America To-day, Observations and Reflections] Reference
As Hourani explained, modern Lebanon is the fruit of tough, independent rural insularism, mainly associated with the mountain communities, softened by the openness of the urban communities. From Wordnik.com. [news.beiruter.com - A directory of Lebanese blogs] Reference
At the same time it saw, and saw with a just pride, that its policy had as a whole been for the nation's good, that it had given political and religious freedom to the people in the very teeth of their political and religious bigotry, that in spite of their narrow insularism it had made Britain the greatest of European powers. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8) The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767] Reference
I think it’s my 20th century insularism, that keep me thinking that prior to 1900 people lived in the dark ages. From Wordnik.com. [Sherry Thomas, author of Delicious | Edwardian Promenade] Reference
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