nonintervention

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British, French, and other European powers pursued a policy of nonintervention, however, believing it prudent given Japanese expansion in Asia and elsewhere and the U.S. policy of neutrality.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Charter’s principles of nonintervention and territorial sovereignty, while also preserving the organization’s neutrality.

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2022

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

Whether it’s health care or Syria, we’re still wrestling with it—questions of intervention, nonintervention, how we deal with the disadvantage in this country.

From Slate • Sep. 22, 2017

Inaction -- N. inaction, passiveness, abstinence from action; noninterference, nonintervention; Fabian policy, conservative policy; neglect &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark