7 sentences with 'intervene'
Example sentences and phrases with the word intervene and other words derived from it.
• « The Carthaginians sent a fleet to intervene on behalf of the Messinians, but the latter asked Rome for help as well (a kind of betrayal from Carthage's perspective). »
• « The growing importance of Mary in Christian practice led to a new approach to charity within the Church, as she was believed to intervene on behalf of supplicants without the need for recompense. »
• « On the way, the crusaders and sailors learned of a succession dispute in Constantinople and decided to intervene. The intervention turned into an outright invasion, with the Crusaders carrying out a horrifically bloody sack of the ancient city. »
• « Finally, the Popes struggled to claim the right to intervene in secular affairs as they saw fit, though it was a struggle they rarely won, losing even more ground as the new, more powerful and centralised monarchies came to power in the 15th century. »
• « American President James Monroe feared that the Holy Alliance might try to extend its intervention to the now former Spanish colonies and therefore issued a proclamation that any attempt by a European power to intervene in the Western Hemisphere would be considered a threat to the peace and security of the United States. »
• « Russia did indeed intervene to crush rebellions over the course of the next decades, most notably in 1848 when it decimated the Hungarian Revolution and handed Hungary back to the Austrians. »
• « In 1989, the Eastern Bloc communist regimes crumbled as it became clear that the USSR would not intervene militarily to prop them up as it had done in the past. »