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Is a statute less objection able which authorizes expenditure of Fed eral moneys to induce action in a field in which the United States has no power to intermeddle?

From Time Magazine Archive

"I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle."

From Time Magazine Archive

Intercede and interpose are used in a good sense; intermeddle always in a bad sense, and interfere frequently so.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

But you can only contract through a guardian before that era in your life; and in the agreement between us, that is to be, no third person shall intermeddle.

From Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. by W. H. (William Henry) Rhodes

The neutral Ministers here seem to wish to intermeddle in the proposed pacification.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX by Jared Sparks

I intermeddled with no one's Affairs; but especially I kept myself clear from those that could not be meddled with without gaining the ill Will of a great many.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus

And it was told the king, but he intermeddled not with her.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Various (magazine) Harper

Thus, the man who intermeddled irregularly with the moveables of a person deceased, was subjected to all the debts of the deceased without limitation.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill

When the English and Dutch intermeddled in the succession of Spain, they appeared as allies to the Emperor, Charles the Sixth.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Lord Prestonhall seems to have acted with the same unscrupulous spirit which characterizes most of the business transactions of those who intermeddled with the forfeited or disputed estates.

From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. by Mrs. Thomson

Such an arrangement would provide protection for the universities and athletes from intermeddling by third parties, particularly boosters and agents.

From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2014

Sometimes the Doctrine is shrunk to mean little more than that the U. S. will attempt to discourage European intermeddling in Latin America.

From Time Magazine Archive

Protesting in her behalf, Wolvovitz's co-counsel Jon Pushinsky found himself held in contempt and handed a 30-day suspended sentence for "officious intermeddling."

From Time Magazine Archive

He wanted no intermeddling of the State; they had enough of that in Belgium already.

From Violence and the Labor Movement by Robert Hunter

Suppose he should prove to be a man of low tastes, of vulgar and spendthrift habits, a maladroit and intermeddling king?

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy