The contemporary geologists proposed that the large salt deposits surrounding the Mediterranean coast were the result of its partial isolation by a shrinking of the seaways connecting to the Atlantic.

Franjo Tuđman's government started to lose popularity as it was criticized (among other things) for its involvement in suspicious privatization deals of the early 1990s as well as a partial international isolation.

In 1960, Harry Harlow began studying partial and total isolation of infant monkeys by raising them in cages.

The results showed that when the monkeys were placed in partial isolation they displayed various abnormal behaviors such as blank staring, circling in their cages numerous times, and self-mutilation.

For example, in most countries, ordinary prisoners are denied political rights such as voting; in the most severe cases, total or partial isolation from the outside world can be inflicted.

Indeed, that landscape caused the very partial isolation that preserved the Baltic language group as the most archaic in Europe.

Since the area east of Torne River was ceded to Russia in 1809, the language developed in partial isolation from standard Finnish.

These differences have been caused in part by partial isolation preventing intermingling, geography an important explanation for the major races, often cultural for the minor races.

Southern Africa suffered partial isolation from the world's ever-tightening web of commerce and communication, largely because the commonwealth still practiced racial and economic policies long abandoned elsewhere.

Harlow et al. reported that partial isolation resulted in various abnormalities such as blank staring, stereotyped repetitive circling in their cages, and self-mutilation.