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intervene English

Meaning intervene meaning

What does intervene mean?
Definitions in simple English

intervene

When you intervene, you come between things or persons. The road intervenes between the two districts. When you intervene, you get involved in a quarrel or fight to stop or resolve it. The mother intervened in her children's quarrel in order to stop them from arguing.

intervene

get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II? be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events This interludes intervenes between the two movements Eight days intervened occur between other event or between certain points of time the war intervened between the birth of her two children

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Conjugation intervene conjugation

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intervene · verb

Examples intervene examples

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Simple sentences

Years intervene between the two incidents.
They should not intervene in the internal affairs of another country.
The United Nations sent troops to intervene in the conflict.
Maybe the village elders will intervene to reconcile them.
Do not intervene in matters which do not concern you!
Tom tried to intervene.
Tom tried to intervene and Mary punched him in the face.
We must intervene.
They won't intervene.
Should we intervene?
If you intervene, they will also intervene.
I don't want to intervene.
They shouldn't intervene in the internal affairs of another state.
The police rarely intervene.
I promise I won't intervene.
I promise that I won't intervene.

Movie subtitles

The governor refuses to intervene.
I must intervene.
And I am anxious not to intervene again, Mr. Keane.
I will intervene if I see reason.
That is to say, in the event of the present duke dying without issue, I alone intervene between you and the title.
If justice refuses to intervene, then we will.
You trying to intervene for Simmons?
Tell me, Mrs Stroud, why do you think the president should intervene?
Why don't you intervene?
Don't tell me you won't intervene, because you already have.
Who's asking you to intervene?
Is it still your intention to intervene at the sacrifice?
Forgive me, but it is impossible to intervene officially.
So Mr. Ramos had to intervene.
What right has a layman to intervene in spiritual affairs?
That is to say, in the event of the present duke dying without issue, I alone intervene between you and the title. And I am an old man.
Do you think we should intervene?
If they tried to intervene?
May I intervene, Your Honour?
Special divisions of police had to intervene with water cannon to disperse the crowds following the bloody incidents in Genoa.
And why doesn't our king intervene?
Your victory allows you to intervene. in the worst crisis that this state is facing.
I heard everything, but there was no way for me to intervene.
I have to intervene, it'll end in tears.
I don't want to intervene in this battle.
If troubles break out, don't intervene.
Marshal, you must intervene!
I didn't want to intervene, just now.
You want me to intervene to make you some money.
Believe me, those kind of people aren't like that, and if you don't intervene in good time you might regret it bitterly.
You're asking me to intervene to help a business that you're associated with.
In theses rough benches you earn. the right to intervene in parliament.
You don't intervene?
Do not give them reason to intervene.
Is it still your intention to intervene at the sacrifice? - Yes.
I've had to give many careers. So Mr. Ramos had to intervene.

News and current affairs

Cherkesov's deputy remains in prison. Most believe that Putin is unable to intervene in his defense.
Such a massive effort will be doomed to failure, however, if Afghanistan's neighbors intervene in ways that promote economic upheaval all over again.
Indeed, the US has trimmed its presence abroad by refusing to contribute to a eurozone bailout, intervene in Syria, or use force to contain Iran's nuclear breakout (despite strong Israeli support).
One view is that the state is sacrosanct: the EU has to intervene and help any errant member to get back on its feet.
At the same time, the fact that police agents must intervene in places with which they are not familiar severely impedes their effectiveness.
But industrial countries, too, intervene substantially in markets.
So, if massive use of force fails, how is a big country, believing that its interests or moral duty compel it to intervene in the affairs of a small one, to do so successfully?
Why shout that government should not intervene in markets, claiming that markets are efficient, yet intervene in currency markets?
The state's role is to protect, enforce, and regulate these contracts and related property rights, as well as to intervene to prevent systemic failure.
If, for example, Taiwan were to declare independence, China would likely intervene with armed force, regardless of the perceived economic or military costs.
This is why the government wants to intervene.
Former US Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin reportedly tried to influence the current government to intervene on behalf of Enron in its hotly contested dispute in India.
Like drug addicts or the mentally ill who refuse treatment, we need our friends to intervene.
Most believe that Putin is unable to intervene in his defense.
Israel has reacted positively to the will of the young generation, but it cannot and should not intervene in events in the Arab world.
A more radical measure, which some have advocated, would be direction intervene, with the state providing benefits for families with more girls.
Nor is there any prospect that someone else will intervene in Sudan to make an arrest.
What makes this possibility the financial nightmare of choice, worse than the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, is the fear that many sovereign states have already shot all their bullets and would thus be powerless to intervene.
In recent weeks, Japan became the first large industrial economy to intervene directly in currency markets.
China's exchange-rate intervention probably hurts a number of other emerging-market exporters that do not intervene as much and are less competitive as a result.
In his zeal to intervene, Obama is again disregarding US and international law by seeking approval from neither the US Congress nor the United Nations Security Council.
For example, Paul De Grauwe of the University of Leuvem has proposed that the European Central Bank should intervene when exchange-rate developments are out of touch with economic reality, in order to send a signal to the markets.
Nor would internal reforms work, because the Soviets would intervene to save the system, as they did in 1968 in Czechoslovakia.

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