intermeddle
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Is a statute less objection able which authorizes expenditure of Fed eral moneys to induce action in a field in which the United States has no power to intermeddle?
From Time Magazine Archive
"I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle."
From Time Magazine Archive
Peter was prone to intermeddle with matters beyond his sphere, and to manage other people’s affairs for them.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods
The Mediator did not intermeddle with the affairs of the governments of this world; for his kingdom was not of this world.
From War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ by David Low Dodge
Their courts are not to intermeddle with your internal policy, and will have cognizance only of those subjects which are placed under the control of a national legislature.
From Essays on the Constitution of the United States by Paul Leicester Ford
A Lutheran mob intermeddled and committed some excesses; in consequence of which the Jesuit Wolanski, in the name of his order, instituted a lawsuit against the Lutheran magistracy of the city.
From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob Robinson
By this time Pizarro had established some communication with the gun-rooms and between decks, and discovered that the English prisoners had not intermeddled in the mutiny, which was confined to the Indians.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper
Glory's hands were busy in the bread bowl, and her brain kneading its secret thoughts that no one knew or intermeddled with.
From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
They intermeddled xv ceaselessly, embroiled everything, and as a consequence they obstructed success in the field almost as much as if they had been another Confederate army.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume I by John T. (John Torrey) Morse
A shopkeeper in that remote little town, he not only intermeddled fearlessly with all knowledge, but mastered more than many practised and University men do in their own lines.
From Spare Hours by John Brown
Such an arrangement would provide protection for the universities and athletes from intermeddling by third parties, particularly boosters and agents.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2014
Protesting in her behalf, Wolvovitz's co-counsel Jon Pushinsky found himself held in contempt and handed a 30-day suspended sentence for "officious intermeddling."
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes the Doctrine is shrunk to mean little more than that the U. S. will attempt to discourage European intermeddling in Latin America.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suppose he should prove to be a man of low tastes, of vulgar and spendthrift habits, a maladroit and intermeddling king?
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
As political advisers, partly, perhaps, because men undertook to advise who were fit only for the counting-house, partly because their own interests were concerned, their intermeddling has been most pernicious.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
