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• We tend to be cocooned in this establishment and the usual channels try to keep us here as long as possible.

• They will be so cocooned in their own ministerial world that they will not be aware of what is happening.

• Sadly, their views are often cocooned in humbug.

• They do not need to be cocooned with restrictive practices and guarantees of state work.

• Yet we do not live in cocooned isolation.

• Those who live cocooned in that kind of political and physical comfort often can be much more detached, if not semi-detached, about these affairs.

• Indeed, cocooned in their glass and steel offices and their limos, they will do better.

• They will realise the nonsense of having prepared machinery and paraphernalia which is, as it were, cocooned for the ultimate of a war situation.

• We have been told that they are now to be cocooned until new engines are available.

• It is a fact that market forces prevail in one energy industry—coal—but the nuclear industry is cocooned.

• It is an extravagant distortion to call this a demand to be "cocooned in subsidies".

• There are those who believe that the countryside should be cocooned and preserved for posterity.

• We can therefore say that new towns are cocooned in a suffocating featherbed of statutory protection.

• They are cocooned against such advice and pressures.

• Yet year after year as a nation we seem to have cocooned the initiative and enterprise of people with a web of restrictions and disincentives.