A genuine humanitarian intervention would not be one that made the situation even more dangerous and life-threatening than it already is.
Putin has been warned by western leaders that Russia will face more sanctions if the crisis in east Ukraine escalates, and though thousands of Russian troops in central Russia were put on high alert for drills over the weekend, the prospect of a genuine military intervention in east Ukraine appears to have receded.
In the absence of a comparison with another type of intervention or placebo condition it is difficult to distinguish genuine treatment effects.
But if the United States is to finally abandon, however reluctantly, what has heretofore been a fundamentally risk-averse, reactive policy that has allowed other, entirely malevolent, forces to shape realities on the ground in Syria, a genuine, coordinated strategic intervention is required.
"We expect genuine involvement and intervention from the mayor and Transport for London to ensure the bus companies fulfil their duty to recognise fully the role their workers will be playing in making the Olympics a success.
But genuine public health interventions to address the real social and lifestyle causes of disease are far less lucrative, and far less of a spectacle, than anything a food crank or a TV producer would ever dream of dipping into.
It is clear that the vaccine does not save many lives – it merely swallows up funds that could have been used for genuine life-saving interventions, such as the provision of clean potable water.
We therefore proceeded to analyse patient data confident that changes in the neural activations of patients would reflect genuine effects from the intervention.
In conclusion, the fact that MA could lead to adverse outcomes in patients, and the recognition that the risk factors for MA and its clinical course are amenable to intervention, provide a genuine case for action.
Although these cases will still be analysed on an intention-to-treat basis under their original treatment allocations, additional patients will be recruited to ensure that there are sufficient numbers of genuine SVT cases undergoing trial intervention to meet the prespecified sample size calculations.
These things are not genuine issues that require the intervention of managerial staff.
