intervene

Example Sentences

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Recovering money after the fact is so much more onerous than intervening while it’s happening.

From MarketWatch

But an important detail intervened: The Federal Reserve Act states that Fed governors can be removed only “for cause,” not at the president’s whim.

From The Wall Street Journal

The sons had helped one of the scheme’s orchestrators resolve issues with Maduro “by intervening with their mother,” the banker told prosecutors as part of his guilty plea to a money-laundering charge.

From The Wall Street Journal

Police also said officers had intervened to prevent a breach of the peace after a group of counter-protesters appeared on Pall Mall on the route of the main march.

From BBC

We can see Houghton’s play in these moments, but then Alloway’s cheeky pop sensibility intervenes, the arch artificiality and ironic tone draining the emotional impact.

From Los Angeles Times