intervention
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He said that ongoing training in mental health intervention and de-escalation has been critical to his agency’s year-over-year decline in uses of deadly force.
From Los Angeles Times
Lyon's intervention – England lost three wickets for 17 runs in six overs – came after the tourists finally showed a willingness to adapt their Bazballing ways.
From BBC
The E-Ray also features a Weather drive mode, with more progressive throttle response and earlier traction interventions, widening the margins of driver control.
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a car-industry group, says that different forms of impairment should dictate what type of intervention is used by the technology.
But by the time 10 cases are identified, it is overwhelmingly likely that the infection has already spread into the wider population, making its trajectory virtually indistinguishable from a scenario with no early intervention.
From BBC
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