Our reputation travels before us, even in the insular countries.

"When I first came to Korea, this was a very insular country.

The spread of the churches, along with Father Obermaier's reputation, has been noticed across this vast, insular country of 9 million.

Adjoining the outermost regions of the EU, adjacent to the European mainland, these insular countries are especially vulnerable to large-scale trafficking.

Although there's plenty of country in the music, "Taking the Long Way" reaches not for the lucrative yet insular country airwaves but for an adult pop mainstream.

The comedy of manners, about two vagabond actors, a comedian and a tragedian who wreak havoc on a rich, insular country estate in Russia, plays through July 2.

Bhutan's 31-year-old king has married a student 10 years his junior in a colourful ceremony showcasing the rich Buddhist culture of one of the world's most remote and insular countries.

Once a very insular country town, Woodford is now rapidly urbanising with new housing subdivisions being established on Kropp Road and Ironbark Drive during 2010 and 2011.

The oral languages spoken by the native peoples of the insular country of Japan at present and during recorded history belong to either of two primary phyla of human language:

With ten member nations, CONMEBOL is the smallest and the only fully continental land-based FIFA confederation (no insular countries or associates from different continents).

For more than four years, Saudi Arabia, a famously insular country, has been negotiating for entry into the World Trade Organization, the Geneva-based group that makes the rules for global commerce.

But with its population shrinking, more people are concluding that marriage with a foreigner is the best answer for their loneliness - and, in consequence, they are a new force for the opening of this quintessentially insular country.

Mr. Brooks's "No Fences" is raising country's commercial hopes even higher, because the album sold a million copies in two months and broke out of the insular country market to reach the Top 20 of the pop charts.

One of the most devout and insular countries in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia has emerged from being an underdeveloped desert kingdom to become one of the wealthiest nations in the region thanks to vast oil resources.

But for Japan itself, an insular country that has had fewer than 800 reported cases of AIDS, the conference will mean coming face to face with a disease that many people here have regarded as a problem only for foreigners.