Islanded

I recently realized something - they are not 'islanded' or stranded! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Microgrids, which are "islanded" power generation and distribution zones that can operate autonomously from the larger electrical grid, are an increasing area of focus for institutions, governments, corporations, and utilities. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Microgrids that enable "islanded" power generation and distribution will be another important growth market in the coming years, with $7.8 billion in cumulative investment by ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thus islanded in dimness and the murmur of traffic fading toward silence, one is apt for the ministration. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Quote from Night on the Great Beach, in Henry Beston's The Outermost House: "For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in its stream of stars— pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across eternal seas of space and time." ❋ Radii (2009)

The house sits at a dizzy 174 feet above sea level, enough to keep my patch islanded when the promised flood comes. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Had the questions arrived on the mainland, where I had so much else to do, I would probably have left them unanswered: but in the mood of islanded leisure and seclusion that I had come to afford I sat down at my makeshift desk and typed out, with some irritation, this response: ❋ John Updike (2009)

I just ordered the book "The Outermost House" from which they pulled the phrase "islanded in a stream of stars". ❋ Unknown (2009)

Those bedridden days when he was islanded in sheets and pillows, surrounded by books, by chess pieces, deliciously sick at times, a fever that sent him inward, sea-sweats and dreams with runny colors, lonely but not unhappy, the room a world, the safe place of imagination. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

Speaking at a symposium in the university, Writing Irish History: the Four Masters and their World, Dr Donnchadh Ó Corráin, professor of medieval history at UCC, referred to the "deeply felt religious bigotry and intolerance at an official level" of that 17th-century period "islanded in virtual peace" and which ended in 1641. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Prince William Sound (60°36'54 "N, 147°10'05" W), a large, irregular, islanded inlet of the Gulf of Alaska, South Alaska, East of the Kenai peninsula. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And with murder, a mental as well as physical explosion, as the final outcome or concluding episode which, being detected, and after what horrors and wearinesses of mental as well as legal contest and failure, such as fairly paralleled his own, now found themselves islanded — immured — in one or another of these twenty-two iron cages and awaiting — awaiting what? ❋ Unknown (2004)

The sources of torrents which in the wet season seam the brown rocks with silver, now cushioned with moss and islanded with yellowing sedges, are shown by an occasional flash and glitter as the sun plays upon them at a reflective angle. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Shall I wake, and speak to none, pass the interminable hours, my soul, islanded in the world, a solitary point, surrounded by vacuum? ❋ Unknown (2003)