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/ˌɪntərvˈɛntʃən/ /ˌɪnərvˈɛntʃən/ Listen

noun

Intervention n.

The act of intervening; interposition. "Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane."

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."

(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.

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"Intervention" Quotes from Famous Books

... for I was on my feet again in a second, dashing in madly at him; and, but for the intervention of another boy, not quite so tall as my antagonist, but with much broader shoulders and of heavier weight, who got in between us and prevented further hostilities, I should probably have come ...

— On Board the Esmeralda - Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story • John Conroy Hutcheson

... was most concerned to find out whether Tiler's intervention and my short talk with him had been noticed by the other side. If the Colonel knew that another man was on his friend's track, he would surely have left the train at once so as to go to her assistance. But he was still in the train, ...

— The Passenger from Calais • Arthur Griffiths

... with people of another religion. It seemed a weak-minded exaggeration of hypocrisy to abstain from preying on men so furiously divided, so full of hatred, so incapable of combining in defence of their altars and their homes, so eager in soliciting aid and intervention from the infidel in their own disputes. The several principalities of the circumference, Servia, Bosnia, Wallachia, the Morea, and the islands, varying in nationality and in religion, were attacked separately, and made no joint defence. In Epirus, Scanderberg, once ...

— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

... in this letter also. Five pounds. It was untouched like the previous sum, and he refolded it in the same way. Detailed instructions were added relative to the address of a reply, which, although they betrayed the intervention of several hands, and made it difficult to arrive at any very probable conclusion in reference to her place of concealment, made it at least not unlikely that she had written from that spot where she was stated to have ...

— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens

... Powers at Verona, where he frustrated Russia's intention of interfering in the affairs of Spain. In 1826 he was sent to Russia on a special mission from Canning to secure the consent of the new Czar to English intervention in behalf of the insurgent Greeks. On the death of the King's brother, the Duke of York, he became commander-in-chief of the army. Disagreement with Canning led him to withdraw from that premier's cabinet in April, 1827, but in the following January (1828), ...

— Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century • James Richard Joy

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