nonintervention

Example Sentences

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They remained until 1934, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt pulled them out as part of his new Good Neighbor Policy, which called for regional nonintervention.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2019

Whether it’s health care or Syria, we’re still wrestling with it—questions of intervention, nonintervention, how we deal with the disadvantage in this country.

From Slate • Sep. 22, 2017

The deaths represented China’s first combat troops killed in action since border clashes following its last war, with Vietnam in 1979, after which it espoused nonintervention in affairs abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2016

But sometimes it’s important to mourn the consequences of nonintervention too.

From Washington Post • Aug. 29, 2016

Inaction -- N. inaction, passiveness, abstinence from action; noninterference, nonintervention; Fabian policy, conservative policy; neglect &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark