Word Finder - intervened

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

Ramsay found that a wide level plain, which had before been covered by water, intervened between Ujiji and the lake, but stated that no further sinking had taken place during the two previous years.

The Christians under Count Amalric immediately intervened and the four expeditions which ensued in 1164, 1167, 1168 and 1169 were duels between Christians and Saracens.

In the period which intervened between the Jameson raid and the outbreak of the war in October 1899 President Kruger's administration continued to be what it had been; that is to say, it was not merely bad, but it got progressively worse.

How long before this the Nativity should be placed the Gospel does not enable us to say precisely, but as Herod's decree of extermination included all infants up to two years of age, and as a sojourn of the Holy Family in Egypt of unknown length intervened between the massacre and Herod's death, it is clear that it is at least possible, so far as the evidence of this Gospel goes, that the birth of Christ preceded Herod's death by as much as two or three years.

The British government intervened, took formal possession of St Lucia Bay (to which Germany as well as the Transvaal advanced claims), caused the Boers to reduce their demands, and within boundaries agreed to recognize the New Republic - whose territory was in 1888 incorporated in the Transvaal and has since 1903 formed the Vryheid division of Natal.

They intervened in case of the king's falling sick, when it was assumed that some man had sworn by the king's hearth and broken his oath.

The years that intervened between his death and the beginning of the Ciceronian age are singularly barren in works of original value.

It was owing to Laski's intrigues that the new hospodar of Moldavia, Petrylo, after doing homage to the Porte, intervened in the struggle as the foe of both Ferdinand and Sigismund, and besieged the Grand Hetman of the Crown, Jan Tarnowski, in Obertyn, where, however, the Moldavians (August 22, 1531) sustained a crushing defeat, and Petrylo was slain.

Yet no war had intervened; the industries of the land had flourished; the advance in accumulated wealth had been beyond all precedent; and immigration had increased.

Fitzgerald answered but Dean intervened, grabbing the old man's arm.

Everywhere indeed Valdemar intervened personally.

Fifteen years of anarchy and civil war intervened before peace was restored.

Gervais intervened with a joke, and the talk reverted to its former lively tone.

Eight years of misrule followed before Queen Catherine of Castile intervened.

In January 1485 Richard intervened to prevent Fox's appointment to the vicarage of Stepney on the ground that he was keeping company with the "great rebel, Henry ap Tuddor."

In1864-1865Brazil intervened in the affairs of the republic, blockaded the port, and reinstated ex-president Flores.

The Prussian government intervened and Ruge soon afterwards left for Paris, hoping, through his friend Alexandre Ledru-Rollin, to establish relations between German and French republicans; but in 1849 both Ledru-Rollin and Ruge had to take refuge in London.

The humanists which it produced, interested only in its splendid revelations, forgot or ignored the achievements of the period which intervened between Cicero and Petrarch.

In Rome Mazzini proclaimed a republic. Once more France and Austria intervened; in 1850 Pius went back to Rome, and ruled there under the shadow of foreign bayonets.

At this point the Revival of Learning intervened to determine the course of the Renaissance.

Had the Revival of Learning not intervened it is probable that the vigorous efforts of these writers alone would have inaugurated a new age of European culture.

Although he finally intervened on the side of Flourens, and peace was preserved, his weakness in face of the Boulangist propaganda became a national danger.

It was then customary to print with a good deal of packing, usually consisting of a thick blanket together with several thicknesses of paper, all of which intervened between the printing and the impression surface, whether the latter was flat or cylindrical.

Then the king intervened personally; not to quell the commons, as the senate insisted, but to compel the nobility to give way.

On the eve of sailing from Aulis he attempted to offer a sacrifice, as Agamemnon had done before the Trojan expedition, but the Thebans intervened to prevent it; an insult for which he never forgave them.

Gustavus first intervened actively in politics in 1768, at the time of his father's interregnum, when he compelled the dominant Cap faction to summon an extraordinary diet from which he hoped for the reform of the constitution in a monarchical direction.

In 1560 a supposed tooth of Buddha was brought to Goa; the raja of Pegu offered ioo,000 for the relic, and as Portuguese India was virtually bankrupt the government wished to accept the offer; but the archbishop intervened and the relic was destroyed.

Some anecdotes of the king's "justice," his favourite and distinguishing attribute during the sixteen years which intervened between the two crusades, are given; then comes the story of Joinville's own refusal to join the second expedition, a refusal which bluntly alleged the harm done by the king's men who stayed at home to the vassals of those who went abroad as the reason of Joinville's resolution to remain behind.

Taba being on the Egyptian side of the frontier, Great Britain intervened on behalf of Egypt, and in May 1906 secured the withdrawal of the Turks.

Finally the Holy See intervened, and by the second peace of Thorn (October 14, 1466) all West Prussia, as it is now called, was ceded to Poland, while East Prussia was left in the hands of the knights, who held it as a fief of the Polish crown.

At last they had him consigned to a miry dungeon, and it was the king who (at the instance of the Cushite Ebed-melech) intervened for his relief, though he remained a prisoner in other quarters till the fall of Jerusalem (586 B.C.).

Some mysterious obstacle intervened.

This scheme was submitted by Philip to a synod at Homburg; but Luther intervened and persuaded the Landgraf to abandon it.

He formed his personal opinion on every problem of administration and intervened himself in every detail.

When Rome intervened in Asia in the person of Pompey, the younger Antipater realized her inevitable predominance and secured the friendship of her representative.

The Venetian government made every effort to have Bianca arrested and brought back, but the grand duke Cosimo de' Medici intervened in her favour and she was left unmolested.

Moreover, Bonaparte vigorously intervened on his behalf, and is even said to have made Tandy's release a condition of signing the treaty of Amiens.

There - at the invitation of Thessalians and Thebans - he intervened in the Phocian War.

But Great Britain and Austria intervened to preserve the integrity of Turkey.

Finally the Hansa intervened, and by the compact of Lindholm (1395) Albert was released by Margaret on promising to pay 60,000 marks within three years, the Hansa in the meantime to hold Stockholm in pawn.

When his son Louis wished to wrest the English crown from John, now crushed by his barons, Philip intervened without seeming to do so, first with the barons, then with Innocent III., supporting and disowning his son by turns; until the latter, held in.

The revolt of Liege and Dinant intervened to divert his attention from the affairs of France.

The emperor now intervened and summoned a council, which met at Ephesus on the 22nd of June 431.

The negotiations were carried out with the greatest secrecy, but as soon as the acceptance was made known the French government intervened and declared that the project was inadmissible.

Wherever a superior official or army officer intervened the massacre at once ceased, and wherever a governor stood firm there was no disturbance.

In fact, so many questions were asked that each presentation would have run over time had not the chairperson intervened.

Prime Minister Tony Blair said Britain had intervened in the case to uphold international law and the principle of state immunity.

Vehement feud had probably long subsisted between these parties, when the Libyan war intervened to suspend the strife.

Unfortunately the weather intervened and the occasion had to be canceled as the site was just too waterlogged.

Thereupon the British government, which had been for some time carrying on negotiations with the cabinet of St Petersburg for a delimitation of the Russo-Afghan frontier, intervened energetically and prepared for war; but a compromise was effected, and after more than two years of negotiation a delimitation convention was signed at St Petersburg on 10th July 1887.