The Leslie Southwick issue per se has the advantage of being isolable from the larger issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Fred Thompson on the Leslie Southwick Nomination,] Reference

Since Emerson, the project of literary radicalism has never been isolable from an ambition to reform our social arrangements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emerson and Socialism: An Exchange] Reference

Shortly thereafter I prepared the first isolable terminal methylene complex, the structure of which was solved by Lloyd Guggenberger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard R. Schrock - Autobiography] Reference

Neither it nor mahanyelo conveys the sense of one person's experiences as a discrete package, an abstract isolable entity with a beginning, middle, and end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

Today's looming climate, ecology, energy, and nuclear threats are not isolable into narrow specialty areas, and are not manageable by economic and fiscal measures alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ervin Laszlo: The G-20: Fighting for a Safe Spot on the Deck of the Titanic] Reference

It is therefore better to suppose that in all instances of coming-to-be the matter is inseparable, being numerically identical and one with the ‘containing’ body, though isolable from it by definition.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Generation and Corruption] Reference

Earlier wars, although centrally important, were isolable phenom - ena; now even the quality of peacetime life has been modified by the demands and the anxieties of un - declared wars, cold wars, and military preparations.    From Wordnik.com.  [ETHICS OF PEACE] Reference

In 1990 physicists W. Krätschmer and D.R. Huffman for the first time produced isolable quantities of C60 by causing an arc between two graphite rods to burn in a helium atmosphere and extracting the carbon condensate so formed using an organic solvent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Release: The 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference

To make Bentham's utilitarianism possible, happiness had to be equated with pleasure or else to be built out of pleasant experiences in some manner; pleasure itself had also to be detached from its traditional inter - relations with appetite and desire and action so as to be able to serve as an isolable goal of human striving.    From Wordnik.com.  [HAPPINESS AND PLEASURE] Reference

But then Wittgenstein's examples also work in concert: they together argue against a form of aesthetic reductionism that would pretend that our reactions to aesthetic objects are isolable, that they can be isolated as variables within a controlled experiment, that they can be hermetically sealed as the experienced effects of isolatable causes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wittgenstein's Aesthetics] Reference

Superelectrophiles are the de facto reactive intermediates of many electrophilic reactions in superacidic systems (including those involving solid superacids) and even some enzymatic systems and should be differentiated from energetically lower-lying, thus much more stable intermediates, which frequently are observable and even isolable but are not necessarily reactive enough without further activation.    From Wordnik.com.  [George A. Olah - Autobiography] Reference

Other finite fields of consciousness seem in point of fact not to be similarly resolvable into isolable parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy] Reference

So, in many cases at any rate, the general terms of discourse stand for isolable objects of intellectual consideration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

For in them too there is something indivisible (though, it may be, not isolable) which gives unity to the time and the whole of length; and this is found equally in every continuum whether temporal or spatial.    From Wordnik.com.  [ON THE SOUL] Reference

In doing so, his object is to discover what isolable elements, explicit or implicit, the members of that community may have abstracted from their more global paradigms and deploy it as rules in their research.    From Wordnik.com.  [LearnHub Activities] Reference

The psychological analogy that certain finite tracts of consciousness are composed of isolable parts added together, cannot be used by absolutists as proof that such parts are essential elements of all consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy] Reference

He then praises his postulates, specifically the ones that state that if a microorganism causes a disease it should be isolable from patients with the disease and introducing it into a healthy human will result in the disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Scholars who give us accounts of their version of the history of chemistry tend naturally to bias their accounts with the perspective of chemistry as a distinct, isolable science of a part of the natural world, what we call a scientific discipline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]]

The question is not whether the functioning of the components in the neural structure is analog or digital, but whether the brain is a structure of functionally isolable components at all (cf.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Exchange on Artificial Intelligence] Reference

It is all in the attitude” (Wittgenstein 1966, 35), where we would then focus, to the exclusion of all of the rest of the intricate, layered, and complex human dimensions of our reactions to works, solely on an analysis of the attitude of the spectator and the isolable causal elements in the work that determine it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wittgenstein's Aesthetics] Reference

Form is no longer entirely isolable from matter, and he who has begun by reserving to philosophy questions of principle, and who has thereby tried to put philosophy above the sciences, as a "court of cassation" is above the courts of assizes and of appeal, will gradually come to make no more of philosophy than a registration court, charged at most with wording more precisely the sentences that are brought to it, pronounced and irrevocable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference