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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
intervene
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
▪ I hope they will intervene again.
▪ Mr. Clarke I hesitate to intervene again, as the hon. Gentleman is getting near to the time left for my contribution.
▪ Mr. George Howarth I had not intended to intervene again, but the Minister has invited me to do so.
directly
▪ Western governments can not intervene directly to support the reformers.
▪ Secondly, Hu suggests that the Fed should forswear intervening directly in equities or equity derivatives.
▪ Rather than intervening directly, the Home Office appointed an independent commissioner, whose report vindicated Dyer's accusations.
▪ Thus relieving them of the terrible necessity of having to intervene directly.
militarily
▪ Meanwhile Western countries remained divided over whether to intervene militarily in the conflict.
only
▪ The courts could intervene only if unfairness was such as to amount to an abuse of power.
▪ Eisenhower was determined to intervene only with the full support of both Congress and adequate allies.
personally
▪ In 1859 the tsar intervened personally to prevent church leaders from consigning Belliustin to a monastery in the White Sea.
▪ One has to be grateful to him for intervening personally.
■ NOUN
affair
▪ They had no sanctioned power to intervene in the affairs of their members, but only to represent them to outsiders.
▪ If the attempt was made and failed, the organisation would be discredited and no longer able to intervene decisively in Ulster affairs.
▪ They were probably right to suspect that St Petersburg had begun to think of intervening in their affairs.
authority
▪ In theory, a shaikh did not have authority to intervene in quarrels within his lineage.
▪ The last time a president invoked his authority to intervene in an airline labor situation was the mid-1960s.
▪ In some authorities officers intervene in discussions at will whereas in others more formal rules apply.
behalf
▪ Most councillors expect to be lobbied by constituents and asked to intervene on their behalf.
▪ It would not have been the first time Franklin Taylor had intervened on behalf of his sons.
▪ He called on United States President Bush to intervene on their behalf.
▪ Unfortunately, I am unable to intervene on your behalf.
▪ During that time, Dong called on Ambassador Durbrow to intervene on his behalf.
case
▪ It would be more profitable to concentrate on deciding what factors should lead the courts to intervene in any particular case.
court
▪ The courts could intervene only if unfairness was such as to amount to an abuse of power.
▪ The court may intervene where there has been a failure to comply with express procedural requirements.
▪ The fundamental principle is that the courts will intervene to ensure that the powers of public decision-making bodies are exercised lawfully.
▪ He agreed that the courts could intervene if the question was whether or not the Commission had acted within its powers or its jurisdiction.
▪ The danger is not that the courts will intervene too much, but too little.
▪ The labels law and fact have been attached depending upon whether the courts wish to intervene or not.
▪ It would be more profitable to concentrate on deciding what factors should lead the courts to intervene in any particular case.
▪ If a body exercising the statutory powers went beyond the four corners of the act, then the court could intervene.
dispute
▪ Members have been instructed not to intervene in any dispute at the Wolds.
▪ The world is not going to intervene to stop such disputes.
▪ I guessed that he didn't intervene in my dispute with Shadwell because he wanted the situation to deteriorate further.
▪ Mr Poole said there were signs that the Army was being put on standby to intervene in the three-week-old dispute.
exchange
▪ Nobody will believe that governments are likely to intervene when exchange rates move toward the edge of their bands.
▪ The second factor is how the government intervenes to affect the exchange rate.
family
▪ It has to take powers to intervene in family life and take into care children who are being neglected or badly treated.
▪ Officials cite a need for statewide consistency in when to intervene in family matters.
▪ There was moreover a great reluctance to intervene in the family itself.
▪ How does one intervene in the Family Disease?
forces
▪ The resignation of the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, early in 1938 provided an opportunity for the popular forces to intervene.
▪ Ciampini said he was in Srebrenica in March and could foresee a disaster unless outside forces intervened.
▪ Borja ordered the armed forces to intervene after violent clashes, including gunfire, between the security forces and the demonstrators.
▪ Chatichai was forced to demote Chalerm in November after the armed forces had threatened to intervene.
government
▪ But there are areas where governments could profitably intervene in a more positive and co-ordinated way.
▪ The federal government intervened for the first time with relief and welfare funds to protect the individual from economic misfortune.
▪ Eventually, the Government intervened to prevent the manufacture of that product in Britain.
▪ The government tended to intervene swiftly with police and troops when major plants or the railway system were disrupted.
▪ This was the third time in six months that the federal government had intervened in state politics to redress alleged fraud.
▪ Nobody will believe that governments are likely to intervene when exchange rates move toward the edge of their bands.
▪ Neighbouring countries' governments have intervened in favour of their own people.
life
▪ It has to take powers to intervene in family life and take into care children who are being neglected or badly treated.
▪ One of them was later to intervene to save his life.
market
▪ The state was as reluctant to intervene in the housing market, despite its manifest deficiencies.
▪ Even now, though, central banks intervene in the market and sometimes coordinate to push currencies one way or the other.
▪ Finance ministers of the Group of Seven industrial countries agreed to intervene in financial markets if need be.
▪ How has the government intervened in the housing market?
▪ In the intervening period, the market sector has become dominant and all three sectors concentrate on using resources efficiently and effectively.
▪ They want to give new competitors more of a chance, even if it means intervening in the market to do so.
matter
▪ Is there any evidence of gravitational attraction being modified by intervening matter.
▪ Officials cite a need for statewide consistency in when to intervene in family matters.
minister
▪ Now the grocery shops want the Prime Minister to intervene.
▪ Will the Prime Minister intervene to stop this disgraceful taxation of the sick - yes or no?
police
▪ The nearby crowd surged forward and police had to intervene.
▪ Hundreds of police were poised to intervene if things got out of hand, but they did not.
▪ Referee Vic Callow stopped play and asked police to intervene after the boy made several comments.
▪ Riot police intervened with teargas; 22 people were injured.
▪ Only much later did riot police intervene to disperse the protesters.
▪ Suspended Stoke striker Wayne Biggins clashed with Halsall after the final whistle and police were forced to intervene.
power
▪ It has to take powers to intervene in family life and take into care children who are being neglected or badly treated.
▪ They had no sanctioned power to intervene in the affairs of their members, but only to represent them to outsiders.
▪ He points out that he has no powers to intervene in the laying of a pipeline on part of his farm.
▪ They know they are drinking themselves to death and in such an instance the social worker has no legal powers to intervene.
process
▪ Technical control arises from work processes which allow the manager to monitor and intervene in the labour process itself.
▪ No questioning of the validity or desirability of the task can be permitted to intervene in the process.
state
▪ Failure to improve could result in the secretary of state intervening.
▪ In the two generations since the Revolution, the state has intervened in many aspects of family life.
▪ Now they have asked the Government of the newly independent former Soviet state to intervene.
▪ Conservatism has a dogma that the State should not intervene.
▪ Neither the successful actors nor the state intervene to protect those who fail to capture many resources.
▪ The state intervenes as a last resort or safety net when parenting leads to dangerous or inadequate levels of child care.
▪ But the state intervenes to ensure that national priorities are protected.
■ VERB
allow
▪ This might then allow the teacher to intervene to encourage effective strategies.
▪ A user interface reportedly allows a developer to intervene at any stage in the translation.
▪ Occasionally, much to their glee, Mr Major allowed them to intervene.
ask
▪ If the plan does not resolve a serious complaint, they should ask their employer to intervene.
▪ But an army spokesman denied that it had been asked to prepare to intervene.
decide
▪ Joan decides to intervene immediately to prevent injury to Robert.
▪ When Austin murdered Bishop, the United States decided to intervene.
try
▪ Attacked A neighbour heard his screams but was driven back into her house when she tried to intervene.
▪ When the two began arguing, the store manager tried to intervene and was shot in the hip.
▪ Anybody who tried to intervene was beaten up.
▪ Lisa tried to intervene, but Tabitha kept swinging a knife.
▪ We did not know that some one had tried to intervene, just minutes before.
wish
▪ I shall happily give way if he wishes to intervene.
▪ The labels law and fact have been attached depending upon whether the courts wish to intervene or not.
▪ The label rational basis would simply be reflective of a conclusion already reached that the court does not wish to intervene.
▪ The Great Powers who wished to intervene were primarily interested in the destruction of Bolshevism rather than in national independence perse.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the intervening years/months/period etc
▪ But some underlying patterning remains, despite the intervening years and the subtle shifts in values and beliefs.
▪ I wanted to look young when I met my brother, perhaps because I had accomplished nothing in the intervening years.
▪ In the intervening years, as property taxes ate away at their nest egg, their proposals for other developments fell flat.
▪ Over the intervening years the inter-action and travelling of these eight aircraft is intricate.
▪ Recounting the matter in present time-without being returned-the patient is using all the intervening years as buffers against the painful emotion.
▪ Some time, then, during the intervening years, he had been granted a barony.
▪ The answer depends, to some degree, on the effectiveness of those who have been active in the intervening years.
▪ To occupy the intervening months she took a job in a hospital.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The country was on its way to an economic renewal, but then an earthquake intervened.
▪ The UN has not yet decided whether to intervene militarily.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intervene

Intervene \In`ter*vene"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Intervened; p. pr. & vb. n. Intervening.] [L. intervenire, interventum, to intervene, to hinder; inter between + venire to come; akin to E. come: cf. F. intervenir. See Come.]

  1. To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.

  2. To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.

  3. To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.

  4. In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
    --Abbott.

Intervene

Intervene \In`ter*vene"\, n. A coming between; intervention; meeting. [Obs.]
--Sir H. Wotton.

Intervene

Intervene \In`ter*vene"\, v. t. To come between. [R.]

Self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates.
--De Quincey.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intervene

1580s, back-formation from intervention, or else from Latin intervenire "to come between, intervene, interrupt," from inter "between" (see inter-) + venire "to come" (see venue). Related: Intervened; intervening.

Wiktionary
intervene

vb. 1 (context ambitransitive English) To come between, or to be between, persons or things. 2 (context intransitive English) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened (i.e. between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking. 3 (context intransitive English) To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel; get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action 4 (context legal English) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.

WordNet
intervene

  1. v. get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force; "Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?" [syn: step in, interfere, interpose]

  2. be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events; "This interludes intervenes between the two movements"; "Eight days intervened"

  3. occur between other event or between certain points of time; "the war intervened between the birth of her two children"

Usage examples of "intervene".

It was not until late the following summer that the final, or definitive, Treaty of Paris was signed, and in the intervening time Adams fell once again into a black mood.

Nevyan expected it to be an aggressive gesture and prepared to intervene, but Ade took a step back.

Wash reached the cover of the Aleut accused by him of aiming directly to finish the Shanghai rooster, and before that startled aborigine could escape, he was disarmed by the black man and dragged across the intervening space to the fort.

There are approximately sixteen days intervening between the middle of November and the apprehension of the Allobroges on the Mulvian Bridge.

I saw no more of Aman Akbar that day or the next, and none of the night intervening.

Bedloe would intervene, as had her mother-in-law when Augustin Bedloe had grown too fond of his pet, Pleasants.

Several uniformed policemen had entered, and Banat was officiously trying to bar them because they had no tickets, so Florian trotted over to intervene.

Poland and before Mussolini had tried to intervene, Adolf Hitler had taken his final decision and issued the decisive order that was to throw the planet into its bloodiest war.

Now, your Majesty will see through your glass that a mile of bogland intervenes between these villages, and that the nearest one, Chedzoy, as I think they call it, might be approached without ourselves entering the morass.

Houses stopped and brushland began, with only an intervening firebreak, and Holly could not help but think of pioneers in the Old West constructing their outposts with a wary eye toward the threats that might arise out of the lawless badlands all around them.

Lugos, Avilas, Sepulvedas, and families who had been traveling for several days, stopping at intervening ranches, coming along slowly on horseback or in the cumbersome carretas drawn by oxen.

By means of the firm promise of a pecuniary recompense, Casanova intervened to obtain from his patron a written acknowledgment of the debt owing to Carletti.

Though Hertzog at Calvinia and De Lisle at Clanwilliam were only fifty miles apart, the intervening country is among the most broken and mountainous in South Africa.

She had gone less than a block when she spotted the coatrack, its square peak visible over the heads of the handful of intervening pedestrians.

Between these orbs were dotted lines and arrow-heads of the oldest form pointing in all directions, while all the intervening spaces were filled up with woven characters half-way in appearance between Runes and Cryptic-Sanskrit.