intervention

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So, the result of the intervention is the opposite of the excuse the government used as a justification for the intervention.

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  1. The act or state of intervening; a coming between; interposition; mediatorial interference: as, light is interrupted by the intervention of an opaque body; the intervention of one state in the affairs of another. Till in soft steam From Ocean's bosom his light vapours drawn With grateful intervention o'er the sky Their veil diffusive spread. Mallet, Amyntor and Theodora. There was no pretext of a restraint upon the king's liberty for an armed intervention in the affairs of France. Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, § 46. Let us ever bear in mind that the doctrine of evolution has for its foundation not the admission of incessant divine interventions, but a recognition of the original, the immutable fiat of God. J. W. Draper, Pop. Sci. Mo., XXXII. 189.
  2. In law, the act by which a third person interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties. Synonyms Interference, Mediation, etc. See interposition.

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  • In that way, they help control crime, but their intervention is always after the fact. —  The Next Accident by Lisa Gardner
  • His first speech spread consternation among the members of the Government and the King's party, led by the Duke of Grafton, who had assumed the duties of Prime Minister; and one of the first effects of his intervention was the resignation of Lord Camden, who had adhered to Chatham, and openly denounced the Duke of Grafton's arbitrary measures. —  Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N.
  • The Afghan intervention -- like the Iraq intervention, the Vietnam intervention, and all too many other American interventions -- stems from a fundamental ignorance or misunderstanding of history. —  National Coalition for History
  • Another intervention is the induction of beta-cell "rest" by selective activation of ATP-sensitive K+ (K (ATP)) channels, using drugs such as diazoxide. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • "We cannot agree that the continuation of the intervention is the best way to move forward," the letter says. —  Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
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  1. = French intervention = Spanish intervencion = Portuguese intervenção = Italian intervenzione, from Late Latin interventio(n-), an interposition, giving security, literally a coming between. from Latin intervenire, past participle interventus, come between: see intervene.
 

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