nonintervention

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It was because of democracies’ nonintervention pact that Almudéver’s unit first made its way to the front with guns but no bullets.

From Slate • May 27, 2021

They remained until 1934, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt pulled them out as part of his new Good Neighbor Policy, which called for regional nonintervention.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2019

The deaths represented China’s first combat troops killed in action since border clashes following its last war, with Vietnam in 1979, after which it espoused nonintervention in affairs abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2016

“The government of Ecuador respects the principles of nonintervention in the affairs of other nations, does not meddle in electoral campaigns nor support any candidate in particular,” the Foreign Ministry statement said.

From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 2016

If, say at the table, when they were all together, he should drop his negative silence, his policy of nonintervention, what a horrified breathlessness would follow.

From Cytherea by Hergesheimer, Joseph