Word Finder - intervene

definition

To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action.

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The police had to be called to intervene in the fight.

synonyms

• interfere
• step in

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To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events.

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An instant intervened between the flash and the report.

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To occur or act as an obstacle or delay.

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Nothing intervened to prevent the undertaking.

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To say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people.

synonyms

• interrupt

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To come between, or to be between, persons or things.

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The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.

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In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.

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an application for leave (i.e. permission) to intervene

The British continued to intervene in the inter-tribal disputes.

When she tried to intervene the couple said the girl had just fainted.

The emperor himself was obliged to intervene.

Talleyrand, however, was convinced that Great Britain would not intervene against France unless the latter attacked the Dutch Netherlands.

Narses declined to intervene, Padua was powerless to enforce its claims and Venice established a virtual independence of the mainland.

Parents need to intervene when sibling rivalry becomes physical.

When I retrieved it, she was asking if I'd tried to intervene.

On this view, therefore, at least two asexual generations (embryo and scolex) alternate with a sexual one (proglottides); and in the case of Staphylocystis the cyst contains two asexually produced generations, so that in such forms three stages (embryo, primary scolex-buds, secondary scolices) intervene between the proglottis of a Cestode and that of its offspring.

A belated attempt of the French left to intervene was checked by the British cavalry, and the pressure on the centre and right, which were now practically surrounded, continued even after nightfall.

Marching via Eger and Nuremberg (September 3rd) on the Main, Montecucculi drew Turenne to the valley of the Tauber; then, having persuaded the bishop of Wurzburg to surrender the bridge of that place, he passed to the right bank of the Main before Turenne could intervene.

At last the British government had to intervene effectively, and in 1853 a new treaty was signed with the nizam, under which the Hyderabad contingent was to be maintained by the British government, while for the pay of this force and in satisfaction of other claims, certain districts were "assigned" to the East India Company.

To put a stop to this the Powers decided to intervene by means of a joint demonstration of their fleets, in order to enforce an armistice and compel Ibrahim to evacuate the Morea (Treaty of London, July 6, 1827).

Next a succession of narrow ranges intervene between this lower border terrace and the higher terrace (12,000-13,500 ft.).

In 1861 and in 1864 Fazy failed to secure his re-election to the conseil d'etat, riots followed his defeat, and the Federal troops were forced to intervene so as to restore order.

After the peace of Villafranca he was sent to organize the army of the Central Italian League (composed of the provisional governments of Tuscany, Modena, Parma and Romagna), and converted it in a few months into a well-drilled body of 45, 000 men, whose function was to be ready to intervene in the papal states on the outbreak of a revolution.

Great to intervene in Rome remained without immediate effect, since Alberic's position was too strong to be attacked, but it bore fruit after his death.

If he unwillingly refused to intervene in favour of Marshal Ney, it was because he believed that so conspicuous an example of treason could not safely be allowed to go unpunished.

Since the time of Clovis the German sovereigns had never ceased to intervene in such matters.

But with the birth of a prince of Wales the situation was changed, and William determined to intervene actively in English affairs.

In fact, the way in which abundance, increase of numbers, want, increase of deaths, succeed each other in the natural economy, when reason does not intervene, had been fully explained by Joseph Townsend in his Dissertation on the Poor Laws (1786) which was known to Malthus.

But the spread of the Italian revolution and the movement for annexation forced him again to intervene.

In May 1903 there were outbreaks of rioting in Agram, Sissek and other towns, besides serious agrarian disturbances directed against the Magyarist landowners; in a debate in the Reichsrath (18th May) an Austrian deputy named Bianchini unsuccessfully attempted to induce the imperial government to intervene.

His allies no longer able to stand alone, Richelieu was obliged to intervene directly (MayI9th, 1635).

Yet through its right of remonstrance it was the only body that could legally and publicly intervene in politics; a large and independent body, moreover, which had its own demandv to make upon the monarchy and its ministers.

The town was carried by assault and the inhabitants were massacred, Louis not having the courage to intervene on behalf of his ancient allies.

The motives which induced the Swedish king to intervene directly in the Thirty Years' War are told us by himself in his correspondence with Oxenstjerna.

In 1866, during the critical weeks which followed the attempt of Napoleon to intervene between Prussia and Austria, he accompanied the Prussian headquarters in the advance on Vienna, and during a visit to Vienna he helped to arrange the preliminaries of the armistice signed at Nikolsburg.

When the storm burst, he remained entrenched behind the barriers of his own disciplined empire; sovereigns truckling in a panic to insurgent democracies he would not lift a finger to help;' it was not till Francis Joseph of Austria in 1849 appealed to him in the name of autocracy, reasserting its rights, that he consented to intervene, and, true to the promise made at Miinchengratz in 1833, crushed the insurgent Hungarians and handed back their country as a free gift to the Habsburg king.

To intervene or not.

A playground buddy system is used to combat bullying, whereby older children intervene when disputes arise or befriend children on their own.

The UN refused to intervene in the civil war, apart from some troop convoys for humanitarian aid.

The hapless EU minister Denis MacShane will demand the European Army intervene, to universal derision.

Let the Government then intervene in the manners sanctioned by the welfare economists to increase competition and thereby drive down prices.

On the one hand, it has to intervene in order to achieve intergenerational equity, compatibly with a time consistent social welfare criterion.

Meeting up with David Campbell and Susan, The timelord must once intervene in a war between the ruling factions vying to unite England.

These codes show the willingness of boards to regulate themselves, thus forestalling the need for government to intervene with codes of its own.

To maintain that they must intervene is to betray ignorance of the elementary principles of prophetic interpretation.

These Acts indicate a limited readiness on the part of Parliament to intervene to deal with some of the causes of disputes between neighbors.

Meanwhile, ministers have again rebuffed calls from the Scottish National Party to intervene.

The role of the teacher is very important to support, intervene and facilitate reflection and there will be additional teacher resources.

Hearing of the presence of the " Revenge ", the governor of Jamaica, sent an armed sloop to intervene.

In cases of armed resistance to a provincial government, the national government exercises the right to intervene by the appointment of an interventor, who becomes the executive head of the province until order is restored.

Two main chains extend right across the sea - the one through Scyros and Psara (between which shallow banks intervene) to Chios and the hammer-shaped promontory east of it; and the other running from the southeastern promontory of Euboea and continuing the axis of that island, in a southward curve through Andros, Tenos, Myconos, Nikaria and Samos.

Venice hoped to intervene in Romagna and establish her protectorate over the principalities, but this Julius was determined to prevent, and after trying in vain to use Cesare as a means of keeping out the Venetians, he had him arrested.

In vain did the Austrian envoy, Cobenzl, resist the cession of the Ionian Isles to France; in vain did the Directors intervene in the middle of September with an express order that Venice must not be ceded to Austria, but must, along with Friuli, be included.

France, he believed, would never come single-handed to the assistance of Turkey; Austria would be bound at least to benevolent neutrality by " gratitude " for the aid given in 1849; the king of Prussia would sympathize with a Christian crusade; Great Britain, where under the influence of John Bright and Richard Cobden the " peace at any price " spirit seemed to be in the ascendant, would never intervene.

Part of the one available French division was, furthermore, to effect a descent at Kum Kale opposite Helles as a subsidiary operation, partly to deceive the enemy and partly to neutralize Turkish guns, which otherwise might intervene in the Helles fighting.

In 1643, when a Scottish army was formed to intervene in the English Civil War (see Great Rebellion) and placed under the command of Alexander Leslie, earl of Leven, the foremost living Scottish soldier, Leslie was selected as Leven's major-general.

On re-entering Milan Charles Albert was badly received and reviled as a traitor by the Republicans, and although he declared himself ready to die defending the city the municipality treated with Radetzky for a capitulation; the mob, urged on by the demagogues, made a savage demonstration against him at the Palazzo Greppi, whence he escaped in the night with difficulty and returned to Piedmont with his defeated armp. The French Republic offered to intervene in the spring of 1848, but Charles Albert did not desire foreign aid, the more so as in this case it would have had to be paid for by the cession of Nice and Savoy.

But the faction of Eulalius long continued to foment disorders, and the secular authority was compelled to intervene.