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
Some persons have especial need to consider this sin—they are tempted to play the part of Providence, to intermeddle where they ought to refrain.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods
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
And as I sat listening to them, I could not help thinking how much, and how constantly, bells intermeddled with all the feelings and fortunes of humanity.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
“You are wrong, Captain Uraga,” interposed he who had intermeddled, addressing himself to the officer.
From The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid
He intermeddled not with the civil institutions of the day.
From A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery by A. Woodward
Who it could have been that so far intermeddled with his affairs as to write to him, he could not possibly conceive.
From Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest
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
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
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
We have known the saying just quoted scores of times suffice to stop the unwise and gratuitous intermeddling of such as were disposed to interfere with what did not properly belong to them.
Occasionally a foolish and intermeddling spectator will endeavor to show his brilliancy by experimenting with the animals.
From Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus by W. C. Coup
