Sentence examples for imperial intervention from inspiring English sources

Imperial intervention thus became inevitable.

Its dangerous ignorance of the world, a mixture of intellectual isolationism and imperial intervention abroad, is equally alien.

The forest cantons had organized themselves against the alliance, and there was a real threat of imperial intervention.

Many Americans have long accepted this idea of our superiority and goodness as if it were a self-evident truth, not postwar propaganda created to justify imperial intervention.

Even imperial intervention beginning in the late 10th century failed to bring an end to papal corruption, because local families reasserted their control over Rome during imperial absences.

Polling shows that Obama retains his stardust in Europe, but that has not stopped the Conservative right – ironically normally the most passionate supporters of the transatlantic relationship – doing all it can to delegitimise Obama's imperial intervention in advance.

In other instances the BSA provided a pleasant cover for imperial interventions that required coercion and violence.

It proves what feminists from the global South have long held: Imperial interventions can make storyteller saviors, but they cannot produce the ground-level moral shifts that must occur within Afghanistan to make its women safe.

Such folk will be more pleased, though, by his pessimism about whether modern America has the will to make imperial interventions work, given the clash between its inward-looking democratic process and the high cost, in both money and casualties, of lengthy interventions overseas.

However, this real politique approach is what has justified all of our imperial interventions.

Decades of neoliberal "adjustment" and neo-imperial intervention have robbed its government of any significant capacity to invest in its people or to regulate its economy.