Definition of Intervention

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Intervention

The act of intervening; interposition.

Any interference that may affect the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; mediation.

The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties.

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Intervention Quotations

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'
Bill Maher

It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself.
Gottfried Leibniz

I am a big believer in early intervention.
Temple Grandin

A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.
Temple Grandin

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention.
Lee Harvey Oswald

Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.
Jurgen Habermas

We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.
Dan Marino

I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention.
Silvio Berlusconi

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.
Benjamin Spock

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.
Boris Yeltsin

Intervention Translations

intervention in French is intervention, anticipation
intervention in German is Eingriff
intervention in Italian is intervento
intervention in Norwegian is intervensjon
intervention in Swedish is ingripande

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