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Example sentences for "intervene"

Lexicographically close words:
interurban; interval; intervale; intervales; intervals; intervened; intervenes; intervenient; intervening; intervention
  1. The senate, when it had learnt the news of the renewed outbreak of the war, was as unwilling as ever to intervene as a third partner in a three-sided conflict.

  2. Low wages are given on the farm simply because it is the custom so to do; if the Government were to intervene and fix a higher rate the extra money would be paid as a matter of course.

  3. The boys' chargeman had to intervene as peacemaker and he comforted Sammy, who shed a few tears and finally became reconciled to the forge again, though he often defiantly affirmed that he would not be beaten, not he!

  4. Wherever State intervention is for the best, the State has a right to intervene; but it has no moral right, though it must have a legal right, to intervene where it is not for the best.

  5. The General Will, being always in the right, will intervene only when intervention is proper.

  6. Carey, who had set out as an earnest advocate of free trade, accordingly arrived at the doctrine of protection: the "coordinating power" in society must intervene to prevent private advantage from working public mischief.

  7. It is evident that the changes brought about in every Dispensation constitute the dark clouds that intervene between the eye of man’s understanding and the Divine Luminary which shineth forth from the day spring of the Divine Essence.

  8. Europe to intervene to suppress any revolutionary movement by which they might conceive that peace to be endangered (Hertslet, No.

  9. The latter, however, apparently are left to enforce the provisions of the law themselves, as no inspectorate is empowered to intervene on their behalf.

  10. Such recognition is not necessary in order to enable the United States to intervene and pacify the island.

  11. The right to intervene may be justified by the very serious injury to the commerce, trade, and business of our people and by the wanton destruction of property and devastation of the island.

  12. The periods of time which may intervene between exposure to yellow-fever poison and attacks of the disease are extremely variable.

  13. The spirits hover round the outskirts of the action, but do not really or effectually intervene in it.

  14. It is plain to all who have not forgotten history, that England never can be guilty of such recognition without unpardonable apostasy; nor can she intervene by way of mediation, except in the interests of Freedom.

  15. From this it was an easy step to intervene in the private lives of individuals, in matters wholly apart from its legitimate jurisdiction, of which we find occasional examples in the later period of decadence.

  16. The small positive results of our efforts to intervene in this way have indeed done more than anything to discredit this form of war, and to brand it as unworthy of a first-class Power.

  17. But what if the conditions of the struggle in which we wish to intervene are such that no truly limited theatre is available?

  18. The right to intervene may be justified by the very serious injury to the commerce, trade and business interest of our people, and by the wanton destruction of property and devastation of the island.

  19. Moreover, there will then be no longer anything to intervene between thy soul and God.

  20. It is for this reason that it cannot suffer anything to intervene between it and the object loved, which is God, but springs forward towards Him, and finds no peace till it has overcome every obstacle, and reached even unto the Beloved.

  21. Little time should intervene between the proposing of them and the deciding upon them.

  22. Sometimes two adverbs intervene between the article and the adjective; as, "We had a rather more explicit account of the Novii.

  23. Little time should intervene between their being proposed and decided upon.

  24. Such was the nature of the wound that his physicians believed a few hours only could intervene before his dissolution.

  25. Nay, more, they have ever claimed and exercised their privilege of sending their delegate to intervene in the exposition.

  26. Austria to intervene with decisive effect and win for the Habsburg monarchy the position it had lost.

  27. Matters came to a crisis at the end of October when the diet passed a resolution calling on the king to intervene in favour of the Viennese revolutionists.

  28. Do we first understand, and then will; or does something else intervene between the intellectual perception and the volition?

  29. To know thus much, is to know that a certain space must intervene between them, but it is not to know what that space contains.

  30. If Austria should ally herself with the Turks to defeat Russia's aims, France would intervene for her ally, and, reciprocally, Russia would do the same in case the cabinet of Vienna should declare war against France.

  31. Setting a high value on his personal safety, he did not intervene at crucial moments, as he was wont to do and as he asserted was essential in the new science of war, for the purpose of electrifying officers and men.

  32. I have, in fact, sought to put in evidence the rôle of experience and to analyze the experimental facts which intervene in the genesis of space of three dimensions.

  33. The second case taken as example is that of an eclipse where the crude phenomenon is a play of light and shadow, but where the astronomer can not intervene without introducing two foreign elements, to wit, a clock and Newton's law.

  34. Consequently she was not in a condition to intervene in the conflict more effectively than by diplomatic intervention.

  35. I have purposely said that Austria was not in a condition to, that she could not intervene effectively, because this was the truth and because if I said that she would not do so, it would perhaps be doing her an injustice.

  36. We have attempted to intervene in your favour as much as the situation permitted.

  37. Austria would follow England if the latter would decide to intervene effectively in favour of France.

  38. Later on, when peace conditions are discussed, we will be able to intervene in the negotiations more successfully.

  39. But,” he said, “I do not think those rights are such as to make us intervene in a war which France has commenced herself and without us.

  40. I authorise you to say to Lord Granville that, if England wished effectively to intervene with the object of obtaining honourable conditions of peace for France, England would not be alone and Austria would go with her.

  41. It describes, possibly not without the inevitable bias of one sent on a forlorn hope, the necessary refusals of Gladstone and Lord Granville to intervene in favour of France.

  42. Themselves secure, they could intervene with grim resolution to protect their citizens all over the world.

  43. There is no reason why a court of law should ignore the plain right of the commonweal to intervene in every case between man and man.

  44. What foreign nation is going to intervene to enforce Chinese rights in such a case as Po-shan?

  45. Perhaps a revolution in Japan may intervene to save China from the fate which now hangs over her.

  46. And although Chang Tso Lin has remarked that Wu Pei Fu as a military subordinate could not be expected to intervene in politics, he has not as yet found it convenient to oppose the demand for a popular assembly.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intervene" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arbitrate; arrest; bargain; break; check; concession; crash; curb; dam; damp; dampen; delay; detain; elbow; encroach; entrench; foist; fudge; hinder; impede; impinge; implant; impose; infiltrate; infringe; inhibit; insert; insinuate; intercede; intercept; interfere; intermeddle; intermediate; intermit; interpolate; interpose; interrupt; intervene; introduce; intrude; invade; judge; meddle; mediate; meerschaum; mess; moderate; negotiate; obtrude; obviate; oppose; pause; recess; referee; represent; repress; resist; restrain; retard; sandwich; slacken; snub; step; suppress; trench; trespass; umpire