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
Do not intermeddle with state affairs;—that care is reserved for me, and those in whom I confide.
From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach
But Voltaire wrote to Madame du Deffand: "I am aware that people reproach her with some bagatelles à propos of that husband of hers; however, one really cannot intermeddle in these family squabbles!"
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by John Rudd
No one, however intimate, could really intermeddle with the workings of a genius drawing its happiest inspiration from the earliest experiences of its own individual past.
From Mathilde Blind by George Eliot
I intermeddled with no one's Affairs; but especially I kept myself clear from those that could not be meddled with without gaining the ill Will of a great many.
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus
But just as little as he intermeddled with the convictions of others would he brook interference with his own.
From Australia Felix by Henry Handel Richardson
Nor do they ever name any of those great personages who have intermeddled in civil affairs, but only to scoff at them and abolish their glory.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
"May all the Gods confound me, if Caesar be not the deepest traitor, or the most miserable idiot, that ever intermeddled with a plot!"
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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
A married woman can carry on business in her own name, on complying with certain formalities, and her stock, capital and earnings are not liable to her husband's creditors, or his intermeddling.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This clause—which, unlike the foregoing, was not rejected—prohibited the postmasters-general and all persons serving under them from intermeddling in elections.
From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Herbert Joyce
