Sentence examples for * interveners from inspiring English sources

Power politics decides which lives get saved, and which policy aims triumph.Mr Rieff decries a "two-tiered system of interveners and intervened upon", where the "old imperial powers" make the rules.

Moreover, the identities of both interveners and intervened pairs are not randomly distributed.

Proponents and opponents of "humanitarian intervention" share a western-centric assumption that the only countries affected are the interveners and those being intervened in.

A doctrine of intervention that both claims the moral high ground and clamors its universality but under which the interveners are always from the Global North and the intervened upon always from the Global South is not moral progress; it is geopolitical business as usual.

Studied ambiguity, or just studied silence, are the best tools of the interveners' trade.

The other passengers, the potential witnesses or interveners or heroes, were quite a ways down the car.

Many suspect that the Lusaka deal was designed to freeze the interveners' positions on the ground.Outsiders have economic as well as political reasons for staying.

The interveners would need a coalition of the truly willing prepared to stick to it, and probably to intercede with boots on the ground.

Their meagre defence budgets (Uganda's is allegedly $100m this year) cannot possibly sustain their operations in Congo.Once in Congo, the interveners found commercial reasons to stay.

Emerging economies soured on fixed exchange rates after the nastiness of the 1990s, but most remained committed interveners in the foreign-exchange market.

"All they want to do is drink and dance".Each of the interveners in Congo has complex and different reasons for being there.