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
Interfere, in-tėr-fēr′, v.i. to come in collision: to intermeddle: to interpose: to act reciprocally—said of waves, rays of light, &c.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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
"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
So did the French always, when they intermeddled in the affairs of Germany: they came to aid a party there.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
“You are wrong, Captain Uraga,” interposed he who had intermeddled, addressing himself to the officer.
From The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid
I will drop a veil over her grief, which was too deep and sacred to be intermeddled with.
From Away in the Wilderness by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
By this time Pizarro had established some communication with the gun-rooms and between decks, and discovered that the English prisoners had not intermeddled in the mutiny, which was confined to the Indians.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper
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
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
The first Napoleon never claimed for himself the divine right of intermeddling with and arranging everything more complacently than does the mild and fragile philosopher of Denmark Hill.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
And if she separate from him for cause, he may be restrained for intermeddling with her earnings.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
