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Meaning intervention meaning

What does intervention mean?
Definitions in simple English

intervention

An intervention is an activity designed to change or stop a situation. To prevent government intervention, the companies agreed to stop cigarettes. The teachers planned a reading intervention for the students who were having trouble.

intervention

the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.) it occurs without human intervention (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 the purpose of intervention is to prevent unnecessary duplication of lawsuits a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries (= interposition) the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others (= treatment) care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)

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Simple sentences

We are not equipped for such kind of intervention.
It was a divine intervention.
It has been shown in most studies on this subject that intervention of the legislature had adverse effects.
My intervention on your behalf is the only reason you still have a job.
If not for the Russian intervention, the Crimean crisis would have ended long ago.

Movie subtitles

Military intervention in an open area.
Some kind of intervention?
I thank you, my dear friend, for your intervention.
Prince, when General Ivolgin told me about the wedding ceremony and your intervention I immediately understood, even before you did, before she did.
But a tragic accident and the intervention of the police prevented their elopement.
Grant us the miracle of Thy divine intervention.
An artistic intervention.
If it had not been for the intervention of Captain Dickinson a large number of volunteers would now be dead out there instead of at their posts in here.
Yet again my intervention proved decisive.
Yeah. - No intervention.
President Truman termed the intervention a police action.
Your Grace, I have a most serious matter to report, which requires your immediate intervention.
So we need an occasion that will justify our intervention and make it possible.
The UN General Assembly, all motions having failed to obtain a majority, has passed a resolution ruling out any direct intervention in Algeria.
He is safe, Your Majesty, which but for my intervention. he might not have been.
Against the intervention of the Minister however we would be powerless.
Prevent from any intervention.
If it had not been for the intervention of Captain Dickinson, a large number of volunteers would now be dead out there instead of at their posts in here.
Instead of that, Goldfinger goes off to Europe, and it's only by the grace of God, your friend Leiter, and my intervention with the British embassy in Washington, that you're not in the custody of the Miami Beach police.
He was delayed, I say long enough for the timely intervention of the alert Police Constable Wells.
In this case, the patient is not subject to the physical pleasure you are referring to since she has only undergone an intervention.
Your intervention prevented a brawl.
That we owe our human condition here to the intervention of insects!
Only your intervention kept her from being a dead woman.
No direct intervention? OK.
The Romanian intervention.
Don't be afraid. The courtiers failed, so now they are trying to blame the Master for our intervention.
Without his intervention, I'd be doing porridge.
If he had a wife, no police intervention would be needed.
You spoke of the intervention of transcendental factors.
Thank you for your intervention, but we fear that such familiarity is not appropriate.
The disaster of intervention, I've known it. I will not risk it.
I see the intervention of a woman.

News and current affairs

Now, with household debt sustained on a knife-edge after feverish government intervention, the fiscal position has deteriorated dramatically and the current-account balance has worsened again.
Economists like Hyman Minsky, who tried to correct this, were largely ignored as Milton Friedman and others led the profession's push for free markets and minimal government intervention.
Intervention of some type seems more likely in such circumstances.
After NATO intervention in Kosovo, European leaders made this approach the cornerstone of their vision for the Balkans. It was enshrined in the Stability Pact signed at the Sarajevo Summit of July, 1999.
In comparison to the cost of military intervention and peacekeeping, the financial costs here are ridiculously low.
Once undertaken, the West's intervention ended an almost uninterrupted civil war, and is still viewed with approval by a majority of the population.
Finally, unlike in Iraq, the intervention did not fundamentally rupture the inner structure of the Afghan state or threaten its very cohesion.
The civil war continued for another six years, followed by a bumpy political aftermath: Syrian intervention and expulsion (two decades later), as the Lebanese defined their own fate with the US exercising only background influence.
Following Ethiopia's intervention, the Islamists found themselves out of power.
But what the Arab countries couldn't do with military support, they were able to do by providing political cover for the military intervention led by the US, Britain, and France.
Supplying less leadership allows the US to weigh opportunity costs before taking action, and to select the issues and circumstances that suit it the best. In this environment, military intervention in Libya does not necessitate the same in Syria.
After all, the very success of that attack meant that such limited intervention could never be repeated, because would-be proliferators learned to bury, hide, or duplicate their nascent weapons programs.
Many of the voices that called for, and then bungled, military intervention in Iraq are now calling for war with Iran.
Most obviously in need of amendment is the view that minimally managed and regulated markets are both more stable and more dynamic than those subject to extensive government intervention.
After NATO intervention in Kosovo, European leaders made this approach the cornerstone of their vision for the Balkans.
Safety concerns and cost also limit intervention by international conservation organizations.
It is chastening that events primarily concerning Africans enter the public domain mainly owing to the intervention of the foreign media.
Of the four withdrawals, arguably the 1982-1984 American intervention in Lebanon marks the closest parallel to Iraq today.
This in turn stimulated China's unsuccessful intervention in North Vietnam.
Initially, the attacks unleashed a strong desire to retaliate, which later gave way to caution about intervention, owing to unforeseen consequences.
Given the US record since the doctrine was formulated, another criterion should be added: the main beneficiaries of military intervention are not America's mortal enemies.
The intervention by Turkey and Brazil into the globally divisive issue of Iran's nuclear program is but the latest, and also the clearest, sign of this new element in global affairs.
But the result of intervention was that US forces became just one more target, culminating in the 1983 bombing of a US Marine barracks that killed 241 American soldiers.

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