Synonym: infringement, interference, intrusion. Similar words: invention, convention, prevention, conventional, interaction, international, interpretation, a bone of contention. Meaning: [‚ɪntə(r)'venʃn] n. 1. the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute) 2. a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries 3. (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.
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151. There is a case for government intervention to make sure marginal social cost and marginal social benefit are equated.
152. A notable example among many of government intervention to avoid strike action occurred in the 1954 pay negotiations.
153. Moreover, those elected might then declare independence and seek foreign intervention to aid their cause.
154. It imputes to Proust's text the ability to contradict itself without intervention.
155. Mrs Jones expected feedback and dialogue about the development of an intervention strategy.
156. But just as state intervention has been stepped up, government funds have begun to dry up.
157. Fourth, intervention by government is assumed to be cost-effective, meaning that objectives are achieved at minimum cost to the taxpayer.
158. Nalgo members were protesting at the proposed closure of a 24-hour crisis intervention centre.
159. This offer of a spiritual identity was considerably enriched through its association with a potent instrument for popular cultural intervention.
160. However, he continued to press the need for military intervention to support, he said, worker risings in the country.
161. We now review both the theory and evidence of such market failures and the implications for government intervention in sports markets.
162. They wanted state authorities to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act to avoid establishing new precedents for national intervention in state affairs.
163. O'Connor has argued that the expansion of state intervention has led inevitably to fiscal crisis.
164. Systematic review of dietary intervention trials to lower blood total cholesterol in free-living subjects.
165. Permission to sell a commission or permission to purchase one was again something which might involve the intervention of a politician.
166. These powers of a regional planning authority in relation to development control are essentially rights of intervention to give effect to regional planning policies.
167. Provided that the court felt that the issue was collateral, then intervention was justified.
168. Having nothing much to do while children are engaged in undemanding tasks that offer little opportunity for the support teacher's intervention.
169. Treatment efforts in general are not very successful. Child abuse and neglect continue despite early, thoughtful, and often costly intervention.
170. Limited Intervention A number of leading authorities support only limited review. Sentencedict.com
171. The birth would be the result of the direct intervention of the creative power of the Holy Spirit.
172. Wallace probably knew he could not prevent intervention and wanted the national government to bear the responsibility.
173. Treasury does, however, recognise a social dimension to education and recommends government intervention to help the disadvantaged.
174. They stressed that such intervention did not imply intervention in the internal affairs of the country concerned.
175. Assessment of the problem Effective intervention and treatment is based on an accurate assessment of the presenting problem.
176. This was followed by intervention, by an ... intensification of the class struggle, which assumed the form of civil war.
177. Unilateral State intervention in the absence of an authoritative decision can promote international disorder and disrupt international peace and security.
178. One is a parity grid arrangement, whereby upper and lower intervention rates are established for each currency against every other currency.
179. Neither hospital was sufficiently remote from its catchment area to warrant the intervention of the centre to impose closure.
180. Again, economic analysis explores both the rationale and the efficiency of such government intervention.
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