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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

The neutral Ministers here seem to wish to intermeddle in the proposed pacification.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX by Jared Sparks

Intercede and interpose are used in a good sense; intermeddle always in a bad sense, and interfere frequently so.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

"The heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy;" but just for that reason it has no general content or independent authority of its own.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various

But "no instance is remembered" in which one sect has intermeddled with another—O no!

From Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors by William Gannaway Brownlow

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 Edmund Burke

Even when, within his own stronghold, our author intermeddled with theological topics, it was seldom with felicity or credit to himself.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

And as I sat listening to them, I could not help thinking how much, and how constantly, bells intermeddled with all the feelings and fortunes of humanity.

From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

It was a joy too sacred to be intermeddled with.

From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

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

He found that the existing system allowed of petty intermeddling, but often precluded salutary intervention—straining out the gnat and swallowing the camel.

From The Earl of Mayo Rulers of India by William Wilson Hunter

And I could only say in reply to this intermeddling but blest spirit: Nothing, my dear friend, absolutely nothing!

From Notes of a Son and Brother by Henry James