In order to also offer some more opportunities for citizens' intervention, for the first time in supranational history, a direct democratic element was included in the Lisbon Treaty: The European Citizens' Initiative.
It could act as a citizens' intervention, forcing the polling junkies in the media to change the way they approach polling.
Following Simpson's divorce hearing on 27 October 1936, her solicitor, John Theodore Goddard, became concerned that there would be a "patriotic" citizen's intervention (a legal device to block the divorce), and that such an intervention would be successful.
Upon his arrival, Goddard warned his client that a citizen's intervention, should it arise, was likely to succeed.
The divorce action would fail if the citizen's intervention showed that the Simpsons had colluded by, for example, conniving in or staging the appearance of his adultery so that she could marry someone else.
The majority of citizen based interventions are contributory [1] related to tagging, transcribing, or interrelating cultural items.
Canada's public health care system, which is administered separately by each province/territory as per the national Canada Health Act, provides medically necessary care to citizens through interventions determined to be efficacious and cost effective [ 19].
Thousands of citizens have needed intervention from federal judges in the last several weeks in order to vote.
Again, British governments have stepped in where required for matters such as child protection – and tax avoidance by UK citizens must justify intervention if the local administration refuses transparency in its affairs.
In the case of Iraq, Scowcroft was incensed by Saddam's violation of an international border; he did not believe that Saddam's treatment of his own citizens merited military intervention.
