noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
divine intervention/providence/revelation/guidance etc
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faith in divine providence
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divine power
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divine love
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
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The differing forms of these strategies will fundamentally alter the direction and scope of central interventions and peripheral responses.
direct
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But nervousness and vacillation over direct state intervention was more than just a problem of administration.
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At other times, direct intervention has also been used to discourage management from accepting pay demands.
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He clearly favours a state which involves itself essentially through monetary transaction rather than direct intervention in other more qualitative spheres of life.
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The birth would be the result of the direct intervention of the creative power of the Holy Spirit.
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It involves the daily expression of opinion and its smallest details can be changed by the direct intervention of the proprietor.
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They acquire a vast amount of information about their world without direct intervention from their parents or their teachers.
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Such direct intervention in the distribution of resources is completely contrary to the philosophy behind the market-oriented growth models of the 1960-70 period.
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The universities are also experiencing much more direct government intervention , now to be exerted through the Universities Funding Council.
divine
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In the absence of divine intervention , virgin birth for mammals is not an option.
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And barring divine intervention , also its last.
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Nor did he find any room for divine intervention .
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Also patron of divine intervention and pregnant women.
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Looking back from the 860s, Charles saw this as the direct result of divine intervention .
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One is that devout patients may forgo treatment and wait for divine intervention .
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The future, politically and economically, looks quite too far gone for anything but a divine intervention to help.
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So how about a little divine intervention ?
early
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Get advice from your clinic about early intervention treatment options and support for people who have positive results.
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Rush and others said early intervention to keep kids out of gangs is just as important as locking up youthful offenders.
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The value of early intervention is stressed.
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I answered that point in an earlier intervention .
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Primary adviser Iain MacDonald says Glasgow and Edinburgh are discussing joint publications on early intervention , words and numbers.
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The earlier the intervention the less the damage done and the less the costs of treatment.
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The course of infection can be modified by doctors so that early intervention to counter any deterioration can be made.
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Where an institutional view is predominant, preventive efforts are pitched at the secondary level: early intervention to prevent problems worsening.
effective
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Assessment of the problem Effective intervention and treatment is based on an accurate assessment of the presenting problem.
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How effective is the intervention of family health services authority professional advisers measured by reanalysis of prescribing analysis and cost data?
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In addition, improved therapeutic agents with more specific and controlled effects on platelet metabolism may be developed allowing more effective intervention .
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Summary Assessment is a vital part of effective intervention .
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A definition which fails to confront abuse fails to bring about effective interventions and risks increasing the incidence of abuse.
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He then delivered what was certainly his most effective Cabinet intervention until that date, and probably his most effective ever.
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The difficulties in achieving such effective intervention can easily be imagined.
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A system that is too complex and time consuming encourages errors, undermines enthusiasm and can wreck potentially effective intervention plans.
federal
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Railroad managers then complained that the mails were being interrupted and asked for federal intervention .
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Given this view, most of the proposals introduced by the Reagan administration were designed to negate federal policy interventions .
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Then came the great awakening and the anticipation of federal intervention to come.
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He noted that New York City had crime problems and that officials there successfully reduced crime without federal intervention .
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While the Meredith crisis was in process, liberals and conservatives in Congress sparred over the legality of federal intervention in Oxford.
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Apparently, there was no federal intervention .
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He was trying to balance a desire to prevent demands for federal intervention against the political need to avoid protecting the riders.
foreign
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The priority was to neutralize the borderlands against the Whites and foreign intervention , to ensure the military security of the Republic.
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This change applied to the obligatory foreign exchange intervention , i.e. when exchange rates moved to their limit.
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Well before the operations of 1987, the prospect of foreign intervention of any kind was arousing concern in several quarters.
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Detailed plans for Operation Mayibuye, an outline for guerrilla warfare and foreign intervention , were revealed.
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Moreover, those elected might then declare independence and seek foreign intervention to aid their cause.
human
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How will we stand in the future, with a climate modified by human intervention ?
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But unlike its larger predecessors, H-4 will not tolerate daily human intervention .
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In the drawing, the gap between the two action channels symbolises that part which has to be supplied by human intervention .
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The system should answer these questions without benefit of human intervention .
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Such messages are relayed through automatic dialling machines to random or pre-selected telephone numbers and deliver a sales message without human intervention .
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There is something about a swamp that seems to demand human intervention .
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This implies that the direct degree of human intervention in the making of the work is minimal.
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In all three instances, neural nets were being used to make routine decisions that otherwise would have required human intervention .
legal
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But Woolf does not favour much legal intervention in prison life.
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But many other researchers have concluded that legal intervention is of extremely limited value in truancy cases.
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It is in the context of such cases that discussion of the merits or otherwise of legal intervention is really centred.
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The concept of significant harm is fundamental to the Act and provides a threshold for legal intervention .
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This point is considered further below. Legal intervention in truancy cases has focused on the notion of parental responsibility.
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If satisfied they indicate that an appropriate level of concern exists to justify legal intervention but an order will not automatically follow.
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This is the manner in which he justifies legal intervention .
medical
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I would be interested to experience a situation where medical intervention is not as widely available as it is in Great Britain.
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This means that 69 percent are not susceptible to medical intervention at least for the present.
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In certain circumstances, medical and nursing intervention can change all these scores.
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The first is to use data over which nursing and medical intervention have no influence.
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Such conditions may be much more amenable to medical intervention than chronic conditions.
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Patients recover with good nursing care alone, and medical intervention is seldom required.
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In the 1860s medical interventions into the contagious diseases debate polarized earlier representations of female sexuality.
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The effectiveness of medical interventions is best evaluated by a systematic analysis of randomised controlled trials.
military
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Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ?
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Colin Powell, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who argued against military intervention there.
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However, he continued to press the need for military intervention to support, he said, worker risings in the country.
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Greater emphasis would be needed, as Watkinson proposed, on military intervention capability rather than on the existing network of colonial garrisons.
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He began condemning the military interventions he once cheered.
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In recent decades, these three regions have been the focus of political, economic and military interventions by the great powers.
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It is true that some powerful people, notably Winston Churchill, favoured military intervention .
outside
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But in this tranquil, often overlooked part of the country, the signs of outside intervention are clear.
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Like the south, however, the north was soon to be further disrupted by outside intervention .
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The native intelligentsia provided the opportunity for outside intervention .
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The Bank Wiring Room differed from the previous experiments in that there was no outside intervention .
political
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Should regulation, based on international principles, supersede political intervention in the name of the national interest?
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Both require political intervention: the market alone has no capacity to act responsibly or intelligently.
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This, in turn, prompted a political intervention .
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It emphasizes the direct and indirect effects of political control and intervention on the pattern of industrial relations.
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Capitalist globalisation is increasingly emptying the old nation states of their capacity for serious political intervention .
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But the Communists' most dramatic political intervention was the Second Front Campaign.
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In the face of academic criticism, Black Paper stridency and research like that of Bennett, political intervention was inevitable.
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In fact both networks were subject to heavy political intervention .
social
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Research into the effectiveness of social work intervention is crucial for the development of good quality services.
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At the same time, family disruption by separation and divorce looms large among the reasons for social work intervention .
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These are the situations in which social work intervention is generally demanded.
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Eugenists insisted that it was crucial to redefine the terrain of social intervention .
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Yet this is only one intermediate event among the numerous reverberating consequences of social work intervention .
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The same is true of the effects of social services' intervention in the lives of families.
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By contrast much social work intervention occurs as a result of what appears to be an emergency.
surgical
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They base their recommendations on an analysis of 19 randomised controlled trials that examined the effectiveness of surgical interventions for glue ear.
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In the epinephrine group, the only case who failed to achieve initial haemostasis received surgical intervention .
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Other crucial questions - for example, does surgical intervention prevent problems at school and of language - are still unanswered.
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For those, we tried heater probe thermocoagulation or surgical intervention .
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Persistent colonic dilatation may constitute an indication for surgical intervention .
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In patients with severe haemorrhage and low surgical risk, surgical intervention was carried out immediately.
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Crohn's disease causes chronic gastrointestinal symptoms which may require prolonged medication and surgical intervention .
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crisis
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These are task centred work and crisis intervention .
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It includes short-term crisis intervention and a follow-up with on-going monitoring and support.
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Nalgo members were protesting at the proposed closure of a 24-hour crisis intervention centre.
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Short-term social work methods: crisis intervention , task-centred and contractual approaches. 4.
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A number of different types of psychiatric crisis intervention services had become available by the 1980s.
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Hospitals are, essentially, technologically sophisticated institutions geared towards crisis intervention .
government
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But government intervention is not the only way to cope with the problem of socially inefficient resource allocation due to externalities.
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Moreover, many of the economic gains were created by government intervention and monitoring.
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Treasury does, however, recognise a social dimension to education and recommends government intervention to help the disadvantaged.
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There is clearly a fine line between stifling government intervention and encouraging creativity and innovation.
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The trend also belatedly reflected the increased scope of government intervention in the economy.
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When was the last time government intervention achieved this type of results?
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Both speakers believe that active government intervention in the housing market is now urgently needed before things get even worse.
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Also, the rationale for government intervention is outside the scope of this discussion.
policy
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His steady stream of speeches, interviews and policy interventions only make sense as a bid for the leadership.
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Given this view, most of the proposals introduced by the Reagan administration were designed to negate federal policy interventions .
rate
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One is a parity grid arrangement, whereby upper and lower intervention rates are established for each currency against every other currency.
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An additional reduction to the intervention rate has taken the floor rate to 4. 45 percent.
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Once intervention rates have been altered in this fashion, a change in rates will occur across all sterling money markets.
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He forecast a quarter-point cut in the 4. 45 percent intervention rate by next week.
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Variances of the distributions of intervention rates were computed and were compared by Hartley's F m a x test.
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The Bank in this case endorses the change by bringing its intervention rates in line with the new base rate.
state
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The powerful voices of the Fabians, where the Webbs proved insistent campaigners, urged State intervention on a new scale.
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In a market economy, state intervention is minimal.
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And all this in a conflict fought halfheartedly by many Norfolk farmers who had only an eye for renewed state intervention .
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The latter also emphasise the dependency relations which state intervention forces on people.
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But the struggles over the bill bring to the fore much more general questions about how we understand state intervention .
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Understanding the actual forms and extents of state intervention thereby becomes a largely empirical matter.
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On this occasion, sustained state intervention in agriculture ensured that there was to be no repetition of the inter-war years.
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But ali of these organizational initiatives stopped well short of full-blooded state intervention .
work
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Research into the effectiveness of social work intervention is crucial for the development of good quality services.
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At the same time, family disruption by separation and divorce looms large among the reasons for social work intervention .
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These are the situations in which social work intervention is generally demanded.
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Yet this is only one intermediate event among the numerous reverberating consequences of social work intervention .
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Social work intervention concentrated on planning for children in care, and resource finding focusing on families and not institutions.
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By contrast much social work intervention occurs as a result of what appears to be an emergency.
■ VERB
call
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Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ?
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She had been creating quite an uproar, which eventually called for governmental intervention .
follow
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This was followed by intervention , by an ... intensification of the class struggle, which assumed the form of civil war.
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It might also start by attempts to prevent the transportation of strikebreakers or goods, and a clash would follow police intervention .
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Six months later, following an intervention by Brown, Maclean was reinstated as chairman.
justify
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The efficiency arguments used to justify government intervention in sports markets are applicable to participation, not to spectating.
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If satisfied they indicate that an appropriate level of concern exists to justify legal intervention but an order will not automatically follow.
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Owen waited for the words which would justify his own intervention .
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This is the manner in which he justifies legal intervention .
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He made immediate inquiries by telephone, but felt that there was insufficient evidence to justify his intervention .
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Central government also justifies its interventions in local government in terms of its concern with national economic management.
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What are the market failures that might justify government intervention through industrial policy?
oppose
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Feminists were not opposed to reforming intervention perse.
require
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Both require political intervention: the market alone has no capacity to act responsibly or intelligently.
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When family relationships require intervention for improvement, a psychotherapist should be asked to help.
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But 17 performed so badly they required intervention from government.
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Crisis resolution may require the intervention and assistance of two people from outside the troubled department.
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In some cases it has led to violent confrontations requiring police intervention .
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The nutrition education plan consists of segments devoted to each nutrition problem that requires intervention .
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The haematological suppression affected more patients, but still required no interventions .
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In all three instances, neural nets were being used to make routine decisions that otherwise would have required human intervention .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Early intervention can save the lives of many women who get breast cancer.
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He opposed U.S. military intervention overseas.