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• v  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?
• v  be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events
  This interludes intervenes between the two movements
  Eight days intervened
• v  occur between other event or between certain points of time
  the war intervened between the birth of her two children

• Should zookeepers intervene when a mom wants to eat her offspring? That's the question being debated by Germany's polar bear lovers.
• The government should not intervene.
• The outbreak of communal conflict has raised the nightmarish prospect of an even wider and more destabilizing war that would tempt the country's neighbors to intervene on behalf of .

• step in
• interfere
• interpose

News & Articles

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• Authorities ponder options for dwindling Isle Royale wolves
  Should humans intervene in a natural ecosystem?
  June 21, 2013 - Minnesota Public Radio
• Hill turns to court in dispute over donation
  Former Republican candidate for governor Rick Hill is asking a federal court to intervene in the complaint over a $500,000 campaign donation he received last year.
  June 21, 2013 - Montana Kaimin
• EM ASIA FX-Won leads regional falls; Asia FX to see weekly declines
  * Ringgit, Philippine peso to see worst week since 2010 * Won suffers worst week since Sept 2011 * Some c.banks intervene to support currencies - traders (Adds text, updates prices) By Jongwoo Cheon SINGAPORE, ...
  June 21, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Joe Lieberman in TIME
  The vote "means Congress will not intervene in the foreseeable future" in the war's execution, Lieberman told reporters.
• Sepp Blatter in guardian.co.uk
  There's too much modern slavery, in transferring players or buying players. We are trying now to intervene in such cases,Blatter said yesterday. "The reaction to the Bosman law is to make long-lasting contracts to keep the players, and...
• Henry Paulson in Gold Seek
  We should consider how to most appropriately give the Federal Reserve the authority to access necessary information from complex financial institutions ...... and the tools to intervene to mitigate systemic risk in advance of a crisis, Paulson...