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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Intervention , in terms of international law , is the term for the use of force by one country or sovereign state in the internal or external affairs of another. In most cases, intervention is considered to be an unlawful act but some interventions may ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES divine intervention/providence/revelation/guidance etc ▪ faith in divine providence ▪ divine power ▪ divine love COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE central ▪ The differing forms of these strategies will fundamentally ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute) [syn: intercession ] a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries [syn: interference ] [ant: nonintervention , nonintervention ] (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "intercession, intercessory prayer," from Middle French intervention or directly from Late Latin interventionem (nominative interventio ) "an interposing," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin intervenire "to come between, interrupt," ...
Usage examples of intervention.
On the far bank, a Batavian hand thrust Ban into the saddle and the Crow, without intervention from its rider, followed Civilis as he led them back to their place in the lines.
Brennan brushed past a couple of bemedalled attaches, jacket flapping, unshaven, certain that only moments separated him from security intervention.
Satisfied with her intervention, she flowed the blastocyst down her fallopian tubes where it locked onto the wall of her uterus.
Peace being concluded with Russia it was necessary to make choice of an Ambassador, not only to maintain the new relations of amity between Napoleon and Alexander, but likewise to urge on the promised intervention of Russia with England,--to bring about reconciliation and peace between the Cabinets of Paris and London.
It tended to strike men between the ages of 18 and 25 and was considered very treatable as cancers go, thanks to advances in chemotherapy, but early diagnosis and intervention were key.
Although the average psychologist is a good-natured, reasonably progressive person, and although psychologists would be expected to understand human castes and hive-thought-control interventions, the profession is, by and large, amazingly innocent and unconcerned about the fact that it has been controlled by the Federal Bureaucracy for decades.
American intervention in the Greem Civil War of 1946-1949 put some of the lessons of World War II into practice in the first counterinsurgent campaign of the Cold War.
I must say that until your arrival and intervention, my opinion of your kind was undergoing a most precipitous droppage indeed.
The utmost secrecy was observed on this occasion, as the Fenian leaders were very careful to avoid a repetition of the intervention of the United States authorities in thwarting their plans, to cross the border, as was the case in 1866.
If not for the intervention of Pygmalion, Fiddleback might have destroyed me.
The manner in which the craft leapt forward under each stroke of the oars testified to the strength of his arms, and madame presently subsided into whispers of thankfulness, having reason, it would seem, to be content with mere earthly aid in lieu of that heavenly intervention which ladies of her species summon at every turn of life.
That intervention and occupation forces should not rely on collaborationist domestic minorities to maintain control responded to the awareness from the Balkan experience that such alliances are volatile, and may trigger uncontrollable interethnic conflict antithetical to the objective of a trouble-free occupation.
General Jourge Videla, head of the army, proclaimed a new military junta to oust Isabelita Peron, citing the chronic inflation and massive unemployment as the reason for their intervention.
My landlord, whose hands were empty, fell to with his fist, and the good wife, uplifting her broom and aiming at the head of Jones, had probably put an immediate end to the fray, and to Jones likewise, had not the descent of this broom been prevented- not by the miraculous intervention of any heathen deity, but by a very natural though fortunate accident, viz.
That business with the Romulans, and right after it the interminable famine runs for gamma Muscae V, and after that, the intervention at 1210 Circini, with the Enterprise caught in the middle and everybody on the four planets in the neighborhood shooting at her: it was enough to turn your hair gray.