Sentence examples for intervention of sorts from inspiring English sources

Linkous's friends staged an intervention of sorts, moving him away from hometown chemical temptation to rural North Carolina.

During a family meal, orchestrated as an intervention of sorts, he attempts to shove a piece of sweet-and-sour pork down his daughter's throat.

Several accounts have emerged from those close to Bush about a faith "intervention" of sorts at the Kennebunkport family compound that year.

IT took an intervention of sorts to bring together Dr. Rachel Steward, a hyper-energetic physician from rural Vermont, and Peter Lord Moreland, a laid-back musician from Brooklyn, known professionally as Peter Lord.

Her husband is long gone, her son (Jack Moran) has just finished high school and is considering moving out, and Sally's three sisters decide it's a good time for an intervention of sorts: they show up intent on cleaning out that overstuffed attic.

The meeting was an intervention of sorts.

(Yes, you may sit in it). These works are documentation of therapeutic interventions of sorts.

Few here expect Russian intervention of the sort seen in Crimea and eastern Ukraine.

It is beauty in the form of flawlessness, and almost all of it is achieved by means of a costly intervention of some sort.

But, claims the Court, judicial intervention of the sort approved by the Court of Appeals would leave the agencies uncertain about their procedural duties under NEPA.

In recent years concerted foreign exchange intervention, of the sort undertaken by the G-7 in 1985 and periodically over the subsequent decade, has died out.