interposition

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There were even these fake legal theories known as "interposition" to resist the courts' orders about civil rights.

From Salon • May 29, 2025

In his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke specifically of the governor of Alabama "having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification."

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2021

But the interposition of Russia in Syria complicates matters.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2018

This interposition between school and parent is a hallmark of International Student Education Services Inc. in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, which Conrad said supplies “half or less than half” of Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall’s Chinese students.

From BusinessWeek • Oct. 19, 2011

It has been suggested that the major ice ages on our planet, which recur every hundred million years or so, may be due to the interposition of interstellar matter between the Sun and the Earth.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan