Iran could not be happier. The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized andisolated, the more the world focuses on Israel’s colonialism rather than Iran’s nuclear enrichment, the more people call for a single democratic state in all of historic Palestine.
Toisolate the petroline the condensed oil is distilled again until fifty per cent. of oil has been obtained, and what is left in the still is petroline.
2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, inThe Economist[2], volume411, number8891, archived fromthe original on9 January 2025:
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
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He said in his heart, the day his beard was shaven he was beaten, lost. He identified it with hisisolate manhood.
1961,Sylvia Plath, “Elm[published originally as "The Elm Speaks"]”, inAriel, HarperPerennial,→ISBN,page16:
Its snaky acid kiss. It petrifies the will. These are theisolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill.
1999,Po Chü-i, “At Flowering-Brightness Monastery In Yung-ch'ung District”, inDavid Hinton, transl.,The Selected Poems of Po Chü-i, New York, NY: New Directions,→ISBN,page12:
Narrow Yung-ch'ung streets quiet, / temple gardens allisolate mystery, / no one visits.
