intervening

Example Sentences

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Thus, governments oscillate between ignoring developments that are moving too fast to process and aggressively intervening when scary risks appear.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Once master of vast expanses of northern, central and western Africa, France has played a crucial role in the continent's post‑colonial history, repeatedly intervening militarily since the early 1960s.

From Barron's • May 10, 2026

In Virginia, lawmakers must vote on a change to the Constitution in two successive legislative terms, with an intervening election occurring between them, she said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

More specifically, they claimed that the Virginia Constitution prevents amendments unless there is an intervening election in between the first time a proposed amendment is introduced and passed in the Legislature and the second time.

From Slate • May 8, 2026

Northwestern had been his first choice; he’d been turned down, had settled for the only school that let him leave the state, but once he’d met Elena it had seemed, to him, like fate intervening.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng