If either India or Pakistan proved recalcitrant, it would risk international isolation.

Whether they live with a child, in a nursing home, or on their own, they risk social isolation and increased dependence on their children.

Defiance would risk an economic meltdown and further isolation for a government that took power in a coup almost two years ago.

He is clearly risking renewed international isolation to crush a budding rebellion in this Serbian province by the ethnic Albanians who form its majority.

Its (unsurprising) conclusion: Home-schooled kids probably learn more than school-schooled kids, but they risk isolation and social discomfort.

In an hour-long speech to a party conference, the chain-smoking 92-year-old said Berlin risked isolation if it tried to impose its ideas on European partners.

They risk hostility and isolation from colleagues, supervisors, teachers, fellow students, and even friends.

Israel would risk international isolation to turn its back on such approbation.

The Government warned Bulgarians that they risked international isolation unless they dropped the campaign against the country's Turkish minority.

Today, the United States risks total isolation in the 191-member organization as the sole country opposing a new convention on cultural diversity.