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180 examples of Intervened in a sentence

I had no idea what was going on, but strangers intervened, kept my heart moving, beating.
He was on the cusp of losing everything, and he was about to plead guilty, and the Bronx Freedom Fund intervened and paid his bail.
Financial incentive was exiled from the realm of helping others, so that it could thrive in the area of making money for yourself, and in 400 years, nothing has intervened to say, "That's counterproductive and that's unfair."
It was then that God intervened: news on the TV of a car wreck that hours before had killed three people up north.
As the project progressed and received several design awards, new stakeholders intervened and changed the project goals and design.
It's the exact same thing, yet Google intervened in one case and not in the other.
His parents were there, but they never intervened before the fact.
What I found out is that the tooling, if you intervened in the software, actually produced decorative effects.
I'm here as a future-oriented person who went over the top, who did all these sacrifices because teachers intervened, and made me future oriented.
Sometimes the gangsters would bring with them women being trafficked into prostitution, and if the police intervened, they would hurl the women into the sea so that the police had to go and save them from drowning, rather than chasing the bad guys.
William Wyler was to have directed this adaptation of Moss Hart's hit Broadway play with music/ recruiting poster-vivant, but his own military commitments intervened and it went to a most unlikely helmsman: George Cukor.
I'm a student of screen writing and I loved the way the minor characters intervened just when something pivotal/climatic happened in a scene.
Here the courts have repeatedly intervened, most recently within days of the election, when a federal district court halted work on the Keystone XL Pipeline, a project strongly opposed by environmentalists, on the grounds that the Trump administration had failed to present a “reasoned explanation” for its actions.
A former Al Qaeda member, for example, recently stated that the UK authorities’ failure to explain properly why it had not intervened in Syria’s civil war risked radicalizing more Muslims.
In office, he had intervened when the supposedly independent board for setting accounting standards tried to clean up the accounting of senior executives' share options.
When the Americans have intervened abroad – as they did in Iraq – Europe has responded with grandstanding lectures about “imperial overstretch.”
And when the Americans have failed to intervene, or intervened late or ineffectively – as in Syria and Libya – Europeans have demanded more American leadership.
In fact, the Turkish military, with the judiciary’s support, explicitly intervened in the civilian government’s functioning in 1960, 1971, 1980, and 1997, each time in the name of protecting secularism.
Just as the PBOC had intervened to dampen the appreciation of the renminbi from 2004-2014, it began intervening to dampen its depreciation after 2014.
For almost seven decades, the US and its allies have repeatedly intervened (or supported internally-led coups) to oust governments that were not sufficiently under their thumb.
But the GAVI Alliance intervened to ensure that this is no longer a concern with hepB, and it is unlikely to occur with HPV.
But the last time the Bank of Japan intervened in the foreign exchange market was in 2011.
But the European Central Bank has not intervened in the foreign-exchange market since 2000 – and that was to support the euro, not weaken it.
China has intervened whenever it has viewed the Korean Peninsula as a potential beachhead for an invading maritime power.
The climate-change conference in Copenhagen last December illustrated this decline, as it was the four main emerging countries – China, India, Brazil, and South Africa – that held the key negotiations in which US President Barack Obama actively intervened.
The fact that Saudi Arabia intervened thus highlights the severity of the threat it faced once the Houthis had overthrown Yemen’s legitimate government and seized control of Sana’a.
And, as it happens, the ECB has not intervened in the foreign-exchange market for many years.
Stabilizing its neighbourhood is one reason why China embraces the six-party talks with North Korea, has become a big investor in Pakistan (while exploring ways to cooperate with President Barack Obama’s special representative, Richard Holbrooke), signed on to a joint Asia/Europe summit declaration calling for the release from detention of Burmese opposition leader Daw Aung Suu Kyi, and intervened to help end Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war.
When the crisis started in earnest in August 2007, the ECB reacted quickly and intervened as long as the inter-bank market needed support.
Having issued passports to tens of thousands of Abkhazians and South Ossetians, the Kremlin claims it intervened to protect them -- a tactic reminiscent of one used by Nazi Germany at the start of World War II.
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