total isolation
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftotalandisolation
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total
adjective
uk/ˈtəʊ.təl/us/ˈtoʊ.t̬əl/
including ...
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isolation
noun[U]
uk/ˌaɪ.səlˈeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌaɪ.səlˈeɪ.ʃən/
the condition of being alone, especially when this makes you ...
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(Definition oftotalandisolationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Only a few concepts are acquired at a time, and very often, each concept is learned intotalisolation.
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These references to ideas of 'totalisolation' and difficulties of 'integration' do not add anything to their point about illiteracy and unemployment, but instead act as a rhetorical device.
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The resort to ' ' similarities ' ' comes close to implying that ' ' bachelorhood ' ' is a transcultural realm that can span decades and that can be defined, incidentally, intotalisolationfrom ' ' spinsterhood.
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In domestic and social environments crowded with servants and curious neighbours, few husbands could obtain thetotalisolationfrom community and family support with which they threatened their wives.
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They would betotalisolation, no political influence and economic decline for this country.
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It is not our contention that secrecy should mean thetotalisolationof the security service from all our democratic institutions.
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In other words, he is precluded from considering the self-governing school's stated case intotalisolation.
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This is to take the argument intotalisolation.
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Many women mention not just the physical but the psychological problems, for example a feeling oftotalisolation, encountered after botched surgery.
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Legislation upon devolved subjects must be seen intotalisolationfrom the reserved subjects and from the devolved subjects.
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He spoke as if the rate services could be considered and talked about intotalisolation.
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Therein liestotalisolationand the road to political perdition.
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Would it not be wise to keep part of this stock - intotalisolation, of course - for research purposes?
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Such a country should have been subjected to the most fierce international pressure andtotalisolation until drastic reforms were urgently brought about.
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No one is suggesting for a moment that we can act intotalisolationfrom other currencies; that has never been part of the argument.
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Hospitals do not exist intotalisolationfrom the communities that they serve.
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Is he, therefore, saying now, and has he said on other occasions, that he welomes thetotalisolationof this country?
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I am not speaking intotalisolation.
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He has to live at home, in almosttotalisolation, without young friends or companions and without seeing the outside world.
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One would see 1 million old people who live life intotalisolationand complete loneliness.
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