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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
intervention
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 alter the direction and scope of central interventions and peripheral responses.
direct
▪ But nervousness and vacillation over direct state intervention was more than just a problem of administration.
▪ At other times, direct intervention has also been used to discourage management from accepting pay demands.
▪ He clearly favours a state which involves itself essentially through monetary transaction rather than direct intervention in other more qualitative spheres of life.
▪ The birth would be the result of the direct intervention of the creative power of the Holy Spirit.
▪ It involves the daily expression of opinion and its smallest details can be changed by the direct intervention of the proprietor.
▪ They acquire a vast amount of information about their world without direct intervention from their parents or their teachers.
▪ Such direct intervention in the distribution of resources is completely contrary to the philosophy behind the market-oriented growth models of the 1960-70 period.
▪ The universities are also experiencing much more direct government intervention, now to be exerted through the Universities Funding Council.
divine
▪ In the absence of divine intervention, virgin birth for mammals is not an option.
▪ And barring divine intervention, also its last.
▪ Nor did he find any room for divine intervention.
▪ Also patron of divine intervention and pregnant women.
▪ Looking back from the 860s, Charles saw this as the direct result of divine intervention.
▪ One is that devout patients may forgo treatment and wait for divine intervention.
▪ The future, politically and economically, looks quite too far gone for anything but a divine intervention to help.
▪ So how about a little divine intervention?
early
▪ Get advice from your clinic about early intervention treatment options and support for people who have positive results.
▪ Rush and others said early intervention to keep kids out of gangs is just as important as locking up youthful offenders.
▪ The value of early intervention is stressed.
▪ I answered that point in an earlier intervention.
▪ Primary adviser Iain MacDonald says Glasgow and Edinburgh are discussing joint publications on early intervention, words and numbers.
▪ The earlier the intervention the less the damage done and the less the costs of treatment.
▪ The course of infection can be modified by doctors so that early intervention to counter any deterioration can be made.
▪ Where an institutional view is predominant, preventive efforts are pitched at the secondary level: early intervention to prevent problems worsening.
effective
▪ Assessment of the problem Effective intervention and treatment is based on an accurate assessment of the presenting problem.
▪ How effective is the intervention of family health services authority professional advisers measured by reanalysis of prescribing analysis and cost data?
▪ In addition, improved therapeutic agents with more specific and controlled effects on platelet metabolism may be developed allowing more effective intervention.
▪ Summary Assessment is a vital part of effective intervention.
▪ A definition which fails to confront abuse fails to bring about effective interventions and risks increasing the incidence of abuse.
▪ He then delivered what was certainly his most effective Cabinet intervention until that date, and probably his most effective ever.
▪ The difficulties in achieving such effective intervention can easily be imagined.
▪ A system that is too complex and time consuming encourages errors, undermines enthusiasm and can wreck potentially effective intervention plans.
federal
▪ Railroad managers then complained that the mails were being interrupted and asked for federal intervention.
▪ Given this view, most of the proposals introduced by the Reagan administration were designed to negate federal policy interventions.
▪ Then came the great awakening and the anticipation of federal intervention to come.
▪ He noted that New York City had crime problems and that officials there successfully reduced crime without federal intervention.
▪ While the Meredith crisis was in process, liberals and conservatives in Congress sparred over the legality of federal intervention in Oxford.
▪ Apparently, there was no federal intervention.
▪ He was trying to balance a desire to prevent demands for federal intervention against the political need to avoid protecting the riders.
foreign
▪ The priority was to neutralize the borderlands against the Whites and foreign intervention, to ensure the military security of the Republic.
▪ This change applied to the obligatory foreign exchange intervention, i.e. when exchange rates moved to their limit.
▪ Well before the operations of 1987, the prospect of foreign intervention of any kind was arousing concern in several quarters.
▪ Detailed plans for Operation Mayibuye, an outline for guerrilla warfare and foreign intervention, were revealed.
▪ Moreover, those elected might then declare independence and seek foreign intervention to aid their cause.
human
▪ How will we stand in the future, with a climate modified by human intervention?
▪ But unlike its larger predecessors, H-4 will not tolerate daily human intervention.
▪ In the drawing, the gap between the two action channels symbolises that part which has to be supplied by human intervention.
▪ The system should answer these questions without benefit of human intervention.
▪ Such messages are relayed through automatic dialling machines to random or pre-selected telephone numbers and deliver a sales message without human intervention.
▪ There is something about a swamp that seems to demand human intervention.
▪ This implies that the direct degree of human intervention in the making of the work is minimal.
▪ In all three instances, neural nets were being used to make routine decisions that otherwise would have required human intervention.
legal
▪ But Woolf does not favour much legal intervention in prison life.
▪ But many other researchers have concluded that legal intervention is of extremely limited value in truancy cases.
▪ It is in the context of such cases that discussion of the merits or otherwise of legal intervention is really centred.
▪ The concept of significant harm is fundamental to the Act and provides a threshold for legal intervention.
▪ This point is considered further below. Legal intervention in truancy cases has focused on the notion of parental responsibility.
▪ If satisfied they indicate that an appropriate level of concern exists to justify legal intervention but an order will not automatically follow.
▪ This is the manner in which he justifies legal intervention.
medical
▪ I would be interested to experience a situation where medical intervention is not as widely available as it is in Great Britain.
▪ This means that 69 percent are not susceptible to medical intervention at least for the present.
▪ In certain circumstances, medical and nursing intervention can change all these scores.
▪ The first is to use data over which nursing and medical intervention have no influence.
▪ Such conditions may be much more amenable to medical intervention than chronic conditions.
▪ Patients recover with good nursing care alone, and medical intervention is seldom required.
▪ In the 1860s medical interventions into the contagious diseases debate polarized earlier representations of female sexuality.
▪ The effectiveness of medical interventions is best evaluated by a systematic analysis of randomised controlled trials.
military
▪ Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention?
▪ Colin Powell, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who argued against military intervention there.
▪ However, he continued to press the need for military intervention to support, he said, worker risings in the country.
▪ Greater emphasis would be needed, as Watkinson proposed, on military intervention capability rather than on the existing network of colonial garrisons.
▪ He began condemning the military interventions he once cheered.
▪ In recent decades, these three regions have been the focus of political, economic and military interventions by the great powers.
▪ It is true that some powerful people, notably Winston Churchill, favoured military intervention.
outside
▪ But in this tranquil, often overlooked part of the country, the signs of outside intervention are clear.
▪ Like the south, however, the north was soon to be further disrupted by outside intervention.
▪ The native intelligentsia provided the opportunity for outside intervention.
▪ The Bank Wiring Room differed from the previous experiments in that there was no outside intervention.
political
▪ Should regulation, based on international principles, supersede political intervention in the name of the national interest?
▪ Both require political intervention: the market alone has no capacity to act responsibly or intelligently.
▪ This, in turn, prompted a political intervention.
▪ It emphasizes the direct and indirect effects of political control and intervention on the pattern of industrial relations.
▪ Capitalist globalisation is increasingly emptying the old nation states of their capacity for serious political intervention.
▪ But the Communists' most dramatic political intervention was the Second Front Campaign.
▪ In the face of academic criticism, Black Paper stridency and research like that of Bennett, political intervention was inevitable.
▪ In fact both networks were subject to heavy political intervention.
social
▪ Research into the effectiveness of social work intervention is crucial for the development of good quality services.
▪ At the same time, family disruption by separation and divorce looms large among the reasons for social work intervention.
▪ These are the situations in which social work intervention is generally demanded.
▪ Eugenists insisted that it was crucial to redefine the terrain of social intervention.
▪ Yet this is only one intermediate event among the numerous reverberating consequences of social work intervention.
▪ The same is true of the effects of social services' intervention in the lives of families.
▪ By contrast much social work intervention occurs as a result of what appears to be an emergency.
surgical
▪ They base their recommendations on an analysis of 19 randomised controlled trials that examined the effectiveness of surgical interventions for glue ear.
▪ In the epinephrine group, the only case who failed to achieve initial haemostasis received surgical intervention.
▪ Other crucial questions - for example, does surgical intervention prevent problems at school and of language - are still unanswered.
▪ For those, we tried heater probe thermocoagulation or surgical intervention.
▪ Persistent colonic dilatation may constitute an indication for surgical intervention.
▪ In patients with severe haemorrhage and low surgical risk, surgical intervention was carried out immediately.
▪ Crohn's disease causes chronic gastrointestinal symptoms which may require prolonged medication and surgical intervention.
■ NOUN
crisis
▪ These are task centred work and crisis intervention.
▪ It includes short-term crisis intervention and a follow-up with on-going monitoring and support.
▪ Nalgo members were protesting at the proposed closure of a 24-hour crisis intervention centre.
▪ Short-term social work methods: crisis intervention, task-centred and contractual approaches. 4.
▪ A number of different types of psychiatric crisis intervention services had become available by the 1980s.
▪ Hospitals are, essentially, technologically sophisticated institutions geared towards crisis intervention.
government
▪ But government intervention is not the only way to cope with the problem of socially inefficient resource allocation due to externalities.
▪ Moreover, many of the economic gains were created by government intervention and monitoring.
▪ Treasury does, however, recognise a social dimension to education and recommends government intervention to help the disadvantaged.
▪ There is clearly a fine line between stifling government intervention and encouraging creativity and innovation.
▪ The trend also belatedly reflected the increased scope of government intervention in the economy.
▪ When was the last time government intervention achieved this type of results?
▪ Both speakers believe that active government intervention in the housing market is now urgently needed before things get even worse.
▪ Also, the rationale for government intervention is outside the scope of this discussion.
policy
▪ His steady stream of speeches, interviews and policy interventions only make sense as a bid for the leadership.
▪ Given this view, most of the proposals introduced by the Reagan administration were designed to negate federal policy interventions.
rate
▪ One is a parity grid arrangement, whereby upper and lower intervention rates are established for each currency against every other currency.
▪ An additional reduction to the intervention rate has taken the floor rate to 4. 45 percent.
▪ Once intervention rates have been altered in this fashion, a change in rates will occur across all sterling money markets.
▪ He forecast a quarter-point cut in the 4. 45 percent intervention rate by next week.
▪ Variances of the distributions of intervention rates were computed and were compared by Hartley's F m a x test.
▪ The Bank in this case endorses the change by bringing its intervention rates in line with the new base rate.
state
▪ The powerful voices of the Fabians, where the Webbs proved insistent campaigners, urged State intervention on a new scale.
▪ In a market economy, state intervention is minimal.
▪ And all this in a conflict fought halfheartedly by many Norfolk farmers who had only an eye for renewed state intervention.
▪ The latter also emphasise the dependency relations which state intervention forces on people.
▪ But the struggles over the bill bring to the fore much more general questions about how we understand state intervention.
▪ Understanding the actual forms and extents of state intervention thereby becomes a largely empirical matter.
▪ On this occasion, sustained state intervention in agriculture ensured that there was to be no repetition of the inter-war years.
▪ But ali of these organizational initiatives stopped well short of full-blooded state intervention.
work
▪ Research into the effectiveness of social work intervention is crucial for the development of good quality services.
▪ At the same time, family disruption by separation and divorce looms large among the reasons for social work intervention.
▪ These are the situations in which social work intervention is generally demanded.
▪ Yet this is only one intermediate event among the numerous reverberating consequences of social work intervention.
▪ Social work intervention concentrated on planning for children in care, and resource finding focusing on families and not institutions.
▪ By contrast much social work intervention occurs as a result of what appears to be an emergency.
■ VERB
call
▪ Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention?
▪ She had been creating quite an uproar, which eventually called for governmental intervention.
follow
▪ This was followed by intervention, by an ... intensification of the class struggle, which assumed the form of civil war.
▪ It might also start by attempts to prevent the transportation of strikebreakers or goods, and a clash would follow police intervention.
▪ Six months later, following an intervention by Brown, Maclean was reinstated as chairman.
justify
▪ The efficiency arguments used to justify government intervention in sports markets are applicable to participation, not to spectating.
▪ If satisfied they indicate that an appropriate level of concern exists to justify legal intervention but an order will not automatically follow.
▪ Owen waited for the words which would justify his own intervention.
▪ This is the manner in which he justifies legal intervention.
▪ He made immediate inquiries by telephone, but felt that there was insufficient evidence to justify his intervention.
▪ Central government also justifies its interventions in local government in terms of its concern with national economic management.
▪ What are the market failures that might justify government intervention through industrial policy?
oppose
▪ Feminists were not opposed to reforming intervention perse.
require
▪ Both require political intervention: the market alone has no capacity to act responsibly or intelligently.
▪ When family relationships require intervention for improvement, a psychotherapist should be asked to help.
▪ But 17 performed so badly they required intervention from government.
▪ Crisis resolution may require the intervention and assistance of two people from outside the troubled department.
▪ In some cases it has led to violent confrontations requiring police intervention.
▪ The nutrition education plan consists of segments devoted to each nutrition problem that requires intervention.
▪ The haematological suppression affected more patients, but still required no interventions.
▪ In all three instances, neural nets were being used to make routine decisions that otherwise would have required human intervention.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Early intervention can save the lives of many women who get breast cancer.
▪ He opposed U.S. military intervention overseas.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intervention

Intervention \In`ter*ven"tion\, n. [L. interventio an interposition: cf. F. intervention.]

  1. The act of intervening; interposition.

    Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane.
    --Holder.

  2. Any interference that may affect the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; -- the intervention of one state in the affairs of another is typically unwelcome by the state being intervened in, but some cases of mediation between states may be called intervention. Opposed to nonintervention.

    Let us decide our quarrels at home, without the intervention, of any foreign power.
    --Sir W. Temple.

  3. (Civil Law) The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intervention

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," from inter- "between" (see inter-) + venire "come" (see venue).

Wiktionary
intervention

n. The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.

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WordNet
intervention

  1. n. the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute) [syn: intercession]

  2. a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries [syn: interference] [ant: nonintervention, nonintervention]

  3. (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings; "the purpose of intervention is to prevent unnecessary duplication of lawsuits"

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Wikipedia
Intervention

Intervention may refer to:

  • Interventionism (politics)
    • Humanitarian intervention, an attempt to reduce suffering within a state through armed conflict
    • Entente intervention in the Russian Civil War at 1918-1925
    • Invasion or military offensive
  • Intervention (counseling), an attempt to compel a subject to "get help" for an addiction or other problem
    • Cognitive interventions, a set of techniques and therapies practiced in counseling
  • Economic interventionism, when a central bank buys or sells foreign currencies in an attempt to adjust exchange rates
  • Intervention (law), a legal procedure for a nonparty to enter an ongoing lawsuit
  • Health intervention, an effort to promote good health behaviour or to prevent bad health behaviour
  • Intervention study, a specific kind of clinical study design
  • Art intervention, an interaction with a previously existing artwork, audience, or venue/space
  • The Ottaviani Intervention, a study written by Cardinals Alfredo Ottaviani and Antonio Bacci to Pope Paul VI concerning changes to the Catholic Mass
  • Well intervention, a term for the maintenance and repair of oil and gas wells
  • CheyTac Intervention, a long range sniper rifle
  • Intervention (consulting), term used in the field of Organizational Development
  • Northern Territory National Emergency Response, often referred to as "the intervention", changes to welfare provision introduced by the Australian government in 2007
Intervention (TV series)

Intervention is an American television series dealing with the struggles faced by many different kinds of addicts.

Each episode follows one or two participants, each of whom has a substance dependence or other type of severe addiction. The subjects believe they are being filmed for a documentary on their problem, but their situations are actually being documented in anticipation of an intervention by family and/or friends. During the intervention, each participant is given an ultimatum: go into rehabilitation immediately, or risk losing contact, income, or other privileges from the loved ones who instigated the intervention. Often, other tactics are used to persuade the addicted person into treatment, which vary depending on the situation; some of these include threats to invoke outstanding arrest warrants, applying for custody of the addict's children, foreclosing on the addict's property, and break-up of marriages or other relationships. The producers usually follow up months later to monitor the addicted person's progress and film it for "follow-up" episodes of the series or for shorter "web updates" available on the show's website.

On May 24, 2013, A&E announced they had concluded the series, with remaining episodes to begin airing in June 2013. The final episode in the lineup aired on July 18, 2013 and concluded with reflections from past addicts and a thank you from the producers to the interventionists, family members, treatment centers, and addicts themselves. On August 5, 2014, however, LMN announced the revival of the series with a new season premiering in 2015. A&E revealed the return of the show on January 13, 2015, and aired both a special behind-the-scenes episode—providing viewers with first-hand accounts at the filming process by the production crew, as well as updates from former addicts—and the Season 14 premiere on March 22, 2015.

Part 1 of season 14 ended on May 10, 2015. Ten additional episodes aired July 26, 2015 on A&E.

Intervention (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

"Intervention" is the eighteenth episode in the fifth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Intervention (law)

In law, intervention is a procedure to allow a nonparty, called intervenor (also spelled intervener) to join ongoing litigation, either as a matter of right or at the discretion of the court, without the permission of the original litigants. The basic rationale for intervention is that a judgment in a particular case may affect the rights of nonparties, who ideally should have the right to be heard.

Intervention (counseling)

An intervention is an orchestrated attempt by one or many people – usually family and friends – to get someone to seek professional help with an addiction or some kind of traumatic event or crisis, or other serious problem. The term intervention is most often used when the traumatic event involves addiction to drugs or other items. Intervention can also refer to the act of using a similar technique within a therapy session.

Interventions have been used to address serious personal problems, including alcoholism, compulsive gambling, drug abuse, compulsive eating and other eating disorders, self harm and being the victim of abuse.

Intervention (song)

"Intervention" is a song by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire. It is the third single released from the band's second full-length album, Neon Bible. The single was released to digital retailers on December 28, 2006, and was released as a 7" vinyl in the UK under Rough Trade Records on May 21, 2007. In the US, it was released on July 10, 2007, under Merge Records. The B-side of the vinyl includes a cover of another song from Neon Bible, "Ocean of Noise", performed by Calexico.

Arcade Fire performed "Intervention" on Saturday Night Live on February 24, 2007. The song was covered by the operatic soprano Renée Fleming in her 2010 album Dark Hope.

The song was listed at #271 on Pitchfork Media's "Top 500 songs of the 2000s".

Intervention (How I Met Your Mother)

"Intervention" is the fourth episode in the fourth season of the television series How I Met Your Mother and 68th overall. It originally aired on October 13, 2008.

Intervention (album)

Intervention is the debut full-length album of the Metalcore band Finest Hour, it was released on March 21, 2007 over the Label Divenia Records.

Intervention (international law)

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 be considered lawful.

Intervention (convention)

Intervention is a yearly Internet Culture convention held in September in Rockville Maryland at the Hilton Rockville/Washington D.C. hotel. Intervention (a combination of the words "Internet" and "Convention") highlights independent artists from all spectrums of creative output (Comics, Music, Video, Blogging, Stories, etc.) who use the Internet as their primary distribution method. The convention hosts panels, workshops, movie showings, music concerts, open gaming, and dance events.

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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.