armed intervention

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In nearly every case of kidnap in history, those abducted stand a far better chance of emerging alive and unscathed through mediation and a deal, rather than by armed intervention.

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2023

After nearly a year of calls from the prime minister of Haiti for armed intervention from abroad, the troubled country may soon get such a deployment from an African nation.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2023

In which European satellite country did the Soviet Union stage an armed intervention in the 1950s?

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

It will be only Putin's second foreign trip since the start of Moscow's armed intervention in Ukraine on Feb. 24, following a trip to Central Asia at the end of June.

From Reuters • Jul. 12, 2022

This she has done on several occasions, and the large force now massed upon the northern bank of the Save only awaits some national demonstration to effect an armed intervention.

From Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels by Arbuthnot, George