Example sentences for: intervened

How can you use “intervened” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Wall Street Journal "Legal Beat" column reports that for the first time ever the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the U.N.'s main legal arm, has intervened in a U.S. criminal case and ordered the U.S. to stay the execution of a Paraguayan citizen convicted of murder in Virginia.

  • The allies intervened only when nearly 2 million Kurdish refugees surged toward the Turkish and Iranian borders.

  • All the British press speculated Monday on the reason why the British government had intervened to stop Sean Connery's being awarded a knighthood by the queen: Was it his Scottish nationalism, or was it his attitude on violence toward women?

  • Feuding Australian Aborigine women would sometimes square off and whack each other with yam sticks until somebody intervened.

  • Hamlan never returned to Afghanistan, probably dropping out either because he changed his mind or because his family intervened.


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