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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

No one, however intimate, could really intermeddle with the workings of a genius drawing its happiest inspiration from the earliest experiences of its own individual past.

From Mathilde Blind by George Eliot

Though the commons did not relax in their importunities for the redress of general grievances, they did not venture to intermeddle as before with the conduct of administration.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam

It was simply a reaffirmation of the fundamental maxims of the Jeffersonian policies:—"never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe—never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs."

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard

So did the French always, when they intermeddled in the affairs of Germany: they came to aid a party there.

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

Even when, within his own stronghold, our author intermeddled with theological topics, it was seldom with felicity or credit to himself.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

But "no instance is remembered" in which one sect has intermeddled with another—O no!

From Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors by William Gannaway Brownlow

I will drop a veil over her grief, which was too deep and sacred to be intermeddled with.

From Away in the Wilderness by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

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

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

Occasionally a foolish and intermeddling spectator will endeavor to show his brilliancy by experimenting with the animals.

From Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus by W. C. Coup

He found that the existing system allowed of petty intermeddling, but often precluded salutary intervention—straining out the gnat and swallowing the camel.

From The Earl of Mayo Rulers of India by William Wilson Hunter