Perpetual commotions and repeated interventions by American and European naval forces on behalf of the foreign residents, eventually made it imperative for the United States to take direct charge of the republic.
When it is affirmed that, in his neighbor's behalf, such grand interventions have been vouchsafed, he cannot do otherwise than believe that his neighbor is either deceived, or practising deception.
The interventions of Britain in continental politics were generally on behalf of the principles of nationality and self-government.
In the first place, how can we be sure that such interventions have taken place, particularly in the external world?
In the second place, if such special miraculous interventions do take place for the sake of preventing evil, why do they not take place oftener, especially in these times of unprecedented disaster to human life?
To our protests against Napoleon's interventions in neighbouring States, he retorted by demanding "the whole Treaty of Amiens and nothing but that treaty.
Who would dare to affirm that no interventions take place in the sphere of man--interventions that may be more hidden, but not the less fraught with danger?
This incident surely makes it clear that such cannot be looked upon as special interventions of Providence, for if the lady had recognised the man, she might have prevented his rash act.
But we would hasten to add that such appearances are not a proof of existence after death, nor can they be regarded in the light of special interventions of a merciful Providence.
There are, as I said, only two interventions in public affairs during these fourteen years.
I did not believe in miracles, and I hardly considered such extraordinary interventions of divine power as possible.
Republican government in Cuba; interventions by the United States; diplomatic and economic relations with the United States.
One example that must stand for a range of such interventions was His gentle but dramatic act in encouraging the marriage of Louis Gregory and Louise Mathew—the one black, the other white.
Voltaire had in him the possibility of a passionate hatred of injustice, and his interventions on behalf of persecuted or ill-used men are the high lights of his long and complicated life-story.
Whatever may be said as to the moral character of interventions of the first class, instances are frequent.
Mistrustful as he is of Government intervention, Mr. Goschen observes with satisfaction that the great majority of recent Government interventions in England have been undertaken for moral rather than economic ends.
If we keep these distinctions in view, we shall be able to discriminate between interventions of authority which are innocent, and interventions which are tainted with State socialism.
The increasing frequency of Government interventions is in itself a simple and unavoidable concomitant of the growth of society.
Indeed, the principal effect of these interventions is not to force the Post Office to retrace steps already taken, it is to prevent the Post Office from taking certain steps.
These interventions modify the entire administration of the British Post Office.
It has been largely circumvented by the fact that such interventions must, even with the best will in the world, be more or less conditioned by the raison d'etat.
For the humanitarianinterventions on behalf of the Jews of Morocco see "The Conferences of Madrid and Algeciras," infra, pp.
There have been, however, at least two occasions when the interventions have taken the contrary form of efforts to promote the persecution or restraint of Jews as such.
Not all the diplomatic interventions on behalf of Jews have proceeded on humanitarian grounds.
Besides natural born and naturalised Jewish subjects of intervening States, there is another class of Jews on whose behalf protective interventions have been exercised on grounds of right.
Reasons for believing that of the better known procedures simple iridectomy is the least effective, while those interventions producing a large, thin, scleral filtration-cicatrix are the most valuable.
These miraculous interventions are testified to by S.
Other miracles or miraculous interventions rest upon the value, purport, and character of the evidence and testimony forthcoming for their authenticity.
On the other hand, the interventions of God in E often show a disposition to magnify the miracle and to give it a magical character.
Greedy traders from all parts of the world added their rivalries and interventions to the civil and military disputation.
They upheld the majesty of law, and at the same time made way for the interventions of Divine Love.
Even though the fever was the result of natural causes, and though it probably might have been prevented, had they but drained the marsh or planted it with the eucalyptus, yet this does not shut out all interventions of Divine mercy.
Happy is the soul that has learned to lean upon God, who can say, amid all the distractions and interventions of man, "My soul, wait thou only upon God.
Most of the interventions exercised in the interest of the preservation of the Turkish Empire must, in so far as they are not based on treaty rights, be classified as interventions in the interest of balance of power.
Different from the intervention of the Powers of the Holy Alliance in the interest of legitimacy were the two interventions in the interest of Greece and Belgium.
And many a time interventions have taken place to stop the persecution of Christians in Turkey.
Of such interventions in default of right there are two kinds generally admitted and excused--namely, such as are necessary in self-preservation and such as are necessary in the interest of the balance of power.
But whether there is really a rule of the Law of Nations which admits such interventionsmay well be doubted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "interventions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
