Sentences with phrase «isolated by circumstances»

She is isolated by circumstances, by confidentiality agreements, and by her fierce protection of her children's dignity.

Not exact matches

R. G. Collingwood, in his well - known book, The Idea of Nature, develops the thesis that the idea of nature in philosophical discussion has always been conditioned by historical preoccupations and circumstances.1 We can not hope to isolate nature from our historicity so as to describe clearly and distinctly what it is «in itself.»

For example, a common scenario is to trap a child by setting up a bonding and isolating circumstance.

Yet many church groups conduct programs of «public affairs» as if persons are autonomous units, isolated from the influence of power entities in their communities and able to regulate their behavior under all circumstances by dint of sheer moral will.

Hank (Paul Dano) is physically separated from society by circumstance, but it becomes increasingly clear that he wasn't much less isolated in the real world.

All too often, teachers are isolated in their practice yet impacted both positively and negatively by the broader contextual circumstances of the school, district, and community.

In his Traps series, Lockett used the predicament of ensnared animals as a metaphor for specific modern - day crises, such as segregation and environmental destruction, as well as the more general human condition of feeling isolated or trapped by the circumstances of birth.

Isolated by the political oppression steadily in place since the Islamic Revolution of the late «70s, the brothers, and their art grew and thrived under severely impeded circumstances.»

After the old watering holes dried up and friends such as Arshile Gorky (1904 - 1948), Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956) and Franz Kline (1910 - 1962) died, de Kooning found himself isolated by recognition, age and uncertainty of purpose, circumstances for which none of his previous hardships had prepared him.

Kazma's poetic viewpoint takes us from the isolated and uninhabited underground structure on an island that is part of the Svalbard archipelago, to an operational prison's impervious building to the interior of a museum - like home, revealing stage by stage the secret realities different spaces take on in relation to global circumstances, social relations and the self.

Magistrate: I am prepared, in those circumstances, to put this down as an isolated incident and I am prepared in such circumstances to allow your record to remain intact insofar as the commission of this offence is concerned by dismissing it.

Highly stressed families at risk for abuse and neglect, teen parent, poverty, unemployed or underemployed, struggling with addiction, homeless, immigrant isolated by language and culture, and life circumstances that increase risk for abuse and neglect and their children at risk for school failure

They'll take into account factors such as income, savings, job history and whether the short sale was an isolated event or caused by circumstances outside of your control.