intervention
/ɪntɚˈvɛnʃən/ sustantivo C1En español: intervención
- The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
- A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
- An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
- An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.
Plural interventions
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“No,” returned she, “but I feel some emotion on seeing, for the first time, the man without whose intervention we should have been in tears and desolation.
“Yes,” said the procureur, “and I think the will promises to be yet more extraordinary, for I cannot see how it is to be drawn up without the intervention of Valentine, and she may, perhaps, be considered as too much interested in its contents to allow of her being a suitable interpreter of the obscure and ill-defined wishes of her grandfather.”
I should like you a hundred times better if, by your intervention, I could manage to remain a bachelor, even were it only for ten years.”
The most successful interventions actually involve practicing self-compassion and gently forgiving ourselves for our previous delays.
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