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    intervention


    1. People blamed it on rats or divine intervention at the time, but it was actually a bacteria carried by fleas


    2. The natural process of healing has to be supplemented with medical intervention when the ailment starts causing more pain than bearable or more serious physical or mental ailments develop


    3. Earth's exile community here on this planet is small, herself, derived of an Angel downloaded into a native body, Alan, raised from a frozen zygote by the same expedition that brought her, and the thirty one Brazilians that survived cryofreeze, with or without the intervention of the Kassikan


    4. But, maybe, there is a way out: Conscious dream control and intervention in the astral plains may affect the flow or reality


    5. He wondered how Diam was arranging to cover other sensors, because too-late Bahkmar realized that they had to encapsulate all the ships instrumentation to keep the crew from noticing the effects of their intervention


    6. Rayne continued excitedly, “this way it explains to the young ones where you came from and also eludes to Divine Intervention


    7. Ava was banking on slipping into the next one unnoticed because the planets they would settle would have never produced souls before, so the creature in that area wouldn’t search for silicon intervention in the harvest of those souls


    8. But no, due to the intervention by wizards in the Kassikan, Tdeshi’s body was now inhabited by that ghost


    9. intervention – and then he remembered the words of


    10. Emily was thankful for the elf's intervention, though she wished she had the power to stifle him herself

    11. him without his intervention, and he pitied anyone else


    12. What else but Divine Intervention could explain the


    13. As the former were a good deal below the general average of the century, notwithstanding the intervention of one or two dear years; so the latter have been a good deal above it, notwithstanding the intervention of one or two cheap ones, of 1759, for example


    14. seeing things happen for you without any intervention from you, other than


    15. Journalism of intervention, and a


    16. An equal quantity of foreign goods, therefore, may frequently be purchased with a smaller quantity of the produce of domestic industry, by the intervention of gold and silver, than by that of any other foreign goods


    17. It consists in the exchange of rude for manufactured produce, either immediately, or by the intervention of money, or of some sort of paper which represents money


    18. As she scrambled away, and in between breathlessly thanking Liulfr for his perfectly timed intervention, she told herself that she would forever DRAFT


    19. “Did y'all have a hand in the Lascorii intervention that led to my liberation from the Naud?” She faced Tei directly, “And what about my becoming so tight with the Matriarch?!”


    20. Most people would have at one point or another prayed to a higher being for divine intervention

    21. He even seemed about to put out a hand to stop her, but then drew his arm back, like a protective father who had then realised his daughter was a bit too old for such intervention


    22. Without the intervention of his labour, Nature does herself the greater part of the work which remains to be done


    23. Think of the ramifications of the previous intervention


    24. They took as their doctrine a strict set of rules and guidelines know as the Temporal Directive, devising rules for minimal intervention and interference, which then had to be adapted for each assignment


    25. The primary problem with socialist ideas being promulgated in economics classes is, of course that, barring intervention from those who have studied and absorbed the ideas of the classical economists or, a bit later, the Chicago School of Economics under Milton Friedman, such a slant tends to get handed down from generation to generation


    26. Zolla pointed out that none of this would have been possible so soon after the fall-out without the intervention of a neutralising agent, the technology for which was beyond even his understanding


    27. Even in this dark hour he gave a chuckle thinking of the way this temporal intervention had to be done without violating the directive and how, as a result, even greater damage could potentially be done to this time-line


    28. Unquestionably, the ecosystem would return to at least a semblance of normality even without further intervention


    29. Some even thought it cool – to be beyond medical intervention


    30. The limit of their assistance governed by a mysterious ruling council who, by all accounts, had been against any intervention whatsoever

    31. The policy of minimal intervention had originally set the foundation for the Temporal Directive, and remained enshrined in their doctrine for millennia; the change in philosophy only as a result of the invasion of Earth by their established foe, the Darangi


    32. As Paradic Ramazo pointed out: If the CC had decided sooner on high level intervention (such as before the war), the breech in the Temporal Directive may not have needed to have been so extensive, with the possibility of success greatly improved


    33. The new plan of minimal intervention – an effort to restrict the extent of ‘cultural infection’ by allowing humans to act as protagonists in the resistance – seemed a morally dubious process


    34. Instead, the invaders had become the inhabitants, while arguments raged within the Council over the exact level of intervention


    35. ‘We have always believed the human race would progress and evolve successfully without intervention, that the secrets of the universe were there to be revealed by discovery rather than imparted by a higher civilisation


    36. In Somalia, for example, humanitarian efforts spearheaded by the United Nations (UN) to provide famine relief to that starving country has resulted in inter-clan conflicts among tribal warlords who perceive such intervention (nation-building) as a threat to their territorial sovereignty


    37. With the power given to him by Boddaert's remains, Evaert set out on a campaign of butchery and destruction, bent on conquering all of Boddaert's lands, and it was only the intervention of Bawsen, the fabled fighter from Badachro, which finally put an end to his tyranny


    38. You will be hung again though in history that was seen as a divine intervention and may have led to some being pardoned


    39. Good Intentions, limited and flawed as they oftentimes are however, are not enough! The believer must (first) place his or her trust in God, alone, who reminds each of us, who are receptive to His Wisdom, that every kindly deed, however ―ordinary‖ or ―exceptional‖, or every Act of Faith, cannot properly achieve its intended fulfillment without God‘s guiding intervention; that is to say, unless properly informed by God


    40. ‖ This ―unbroken chain of events,‖ that finds ostensible expression in future behavior, is irreconcilable, it would seem, with causal/effects partially achieved in conjunction with problematical outcomes, that, in any event, could neither shape nor influence an uncertain future unless its ―collective actions‖ were uniformly mapped out, absent the intervention of Accident or Chance or other contaminating elements occasioned by voluntary actions not in keeping with ―programmed‖ designs that would (otherwise) render such a scenario, unthinkable; that is to say, there are far too many contending variables that need to be factored into the equation

    41. What instead needs to be explained is why opposition is so strong to government intervention on some issues, but not others, and why that opposition is so strong that some will literally let people die


    42. ) Every country in Scandinavia has little poverty precisely because of government intervention


    43. Government intervention also stops financial crashes


    44. Renewed calls for government intervention or a roll-back on fuel taxes have been met with polite disinterest


    45. It is more than a little ironic, a libertarian complaining of not enough government intervention


    46. Some conservative critics like William Buckley later admitted they were wrong about Carter, that his intervention likely kept most prisoners from being executed


    47. He stomped through the halls of OIJ headquarters in search of the liberator, but ran into a blank wall such as could be erected only via the intervention of higher echelon: there wasn’t an officer in the building willing to admit to any memory of Mr


    48. The crisis was only defused by British intervention


    49. Partial credit for intervention, though late and not effective at first, to stop atrocities in Bosnia


    50. Diplomatic intervention, arms embargo, and offering refuge could have saved at least one tenth














































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    Synonyms for "intervention"

    intervention treatment interposition intercession interference resistance obstruction impediment clashing

    "intervention" definitions

    the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)


    a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries


    the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others


    (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


    care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)