6 sentences with “interference”

In 1566, Spanish interference in Dutch affairs led to Calvinist attacks on Catholic churches, which in turn led Philip II to send troops and the Inquisition to impose tougher control.

In his most famous work, The Wealth of Nations, Smith argued that a (mostly) free market, functioning without undue state interference, would naturally lead to endless economic growth and near-universal prosperity.

Starting cautiously in 1988, he also announced to Eastern European governments that they would be allowed to "go their own way" without Soviet interference. Never again would columns of tanks respond to protests against communism.

Each year, members of the Delian League contributed money to build and support a large navy, intended to protect all of Greece from further Persian interference. Athens, however, quickly became the dominant player in the Delian League.

Likewise, most liberals favoured the abolition of archaic economic interference by the state, including legal monopolies on trade (for example, in shipping between colonies) and the monopolies enjoyed by the remaining craft guilds - the "right" to engage in commercial exchange unhindered by antiquated laws was also part of the liberal paradigm.

Then, discovering on the morning of 20 June that their meeting room was locked (by accident, as it turned out, though they feared royal interference), they occupied the tennis court at Versailles and vowed not to leave until they had drafted a constitution and the king had accepted it - this came to be known as the Tennis Court Oath, generally regarded as the moment when the French Revolution really began.