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
She was bound, therefore, she regretted to say, not to intermeddle in the business.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various
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 Ford, Paul Leicester
"Who desires thee to intermeddle in this matter, Sancho?" said Don Quixote.
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
When the English and Dutch intermeddled in the succession of Spain, they appeared as allies to the Emperor, Charles the Sixth.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
Nay, in those ages of the world, it was believed that spirits intermeddled in the affairs of mankind; and, throughout the Old Testament, I do not find any thing that in the least contradicts is.
From The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) by Defoe, Daniel
"May all the Gods confound me, if Caesar be not the deepest traitor, or the most miserable idiot, that ever intermeddled with a plot!"
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
But nowadays, and in England especially, if women intermeddled in such things, do you know what they would be called?
From Sunrise by Black, William
Thus, the man who intermeddled irregularly with the moveables of a person deceased, was subjected to all the debts of the deceased, without limitation.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Johnson, Samuel
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
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
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
“This,” he said, “was to purchase trouble with ready money, to kick at snarling dogs, and an intermeddling in profane things that lowered the dignity of the sacred ministry.”
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro
He wanted no intermeddling of the State; they had enough of that in Belgium already.
From Violence and the Labor Movement by Hunter, Robert
