intervene
Example Sentences
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Some promptly escaped, leading the U.S. military to intervene Wednesday to begin transferring others to Iraq.
At one point, the judge Mr Justice Nicklin intervened to tell Prince Harry that he needed to just answer the questions and not argue back.
From BBC
By intervening in the currency market, the government aims to gradually reduce the gap between the official dollar rate and the black market rate, the Ecoanalitica firm said.
From Barron's
A poor start from the German giants was compounded when VAR intervened to instruct that Svensson's misjudged challenge on Odobert be upgraded from a yellow to a red card on 26 minutes.
From Barron's
But when the Hungarian revolution broke out in 1956, the president declined to intervene, fearing a nuclear response from the Soviet Union.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
