During the Cretan Revolt (1866 1869), the Prince of Wales sought the support of British Foreign Secretary Lord Derby to intervene in Crete on behalf of Greece.
Bill Bradley said, "I did not intervene on behalf of people in the regulatory process".
In 1932, the year Moral Man was published, the two brothers held a debate in the pages of the Christian Century on an important political question of the day -- whether or not the United States should intervene on behalf of China in light of atrocities inflicted on them by a Japanese invasion.
The very concept constitutes a kind of linguistic sleight-of-hand, directing our attention from the myriad ways that governments - local, state, as well as the federal government - intervene on behalf of and in ways that benefit corporate interests.
Thanks to an inventive set of experiments conducted via puppet, researchers in Germany and the U.K found that children may have an innate sense of restorative justice and even intervene on behalf of others in addition to themselves when something has gone wrong.
The movie's premise is the supernatural return of those victims to look back at their fate and to intervene, on behalf of the living, in order to spare others the same fate.
He suggested that other neighbors in the region would intervene on behalf of Iraqi factions: The Iranians don't want Sunni domination, therefore they will make sure that the Shia are in a position to assert their preëminence, if not their domination.
It is widely believed that by showing respect for ancestors in these ways, they may intervene on behalf of the living.
Further, since states have no power in the U.S. Constitution to intervene on behalf of tribes, tribes are left effectively defenseless.
When American Jews urged the U.S. to intervene on behalf of Jews facing genocide in Nazi Germany, AFC spokesman (and famed aviator) Charles Lindbergh accused them of "agitating for war".
What's remarkable is that the children in the experiment wanted to intervene on behalf of the victim puppet as much as they wanted to stick up for themselves when a thief stole cookies and toys.
