6 sentences with “intervention”

From a contemporary perspective, the fall of Rome seems to have less to do with divine intervention than with routine defeats and mounting threats.

Decades after the war, the French received an unexpected boost to their fortunes thanks to the intervention of one of France's own future patrons: Joan of Arc.

Moreover, in Catholic doctrine, spiritual salvation was only accessible through the intervention of the Church; without the rituals (sacraments) performed by priests, the soul was doomed to hell.

Another practice was that of nobles literally buying positions in the Church for their children - teenagers could be made bishops through the financial intervention of their parents, with Church officials pocketing the bribe.

Following papal intervention and negotiations between the Spanish and Portuguese, the Spanish were to receive everything west of an arbitrary line on the map 1,100 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands, and everything to the east was to be granted to the Portuguese.

For the next thirteen years, from the French intervention in 1635 until the war finally ended in 1648, armies fought their way through the German Empire, funded by the various elite states and families of Europe, but exacting a terrible toll on the Germanic lands and people.