After the troops had been detained, Mr. Taylor's intervention secured their release.
John was a prisoner in the Tower of London until July 1299, when papal intervention secured his release.
She managed to brazen her way out and sought local UN intervention, securing the release of Britons and other foreigners, for which she was appointed OBE in 1960.
She was able to get herself released and sought local UN intervention, securing the release of Britons and other foreigners, for which she was appointed OBE in 1960.
Her father had lost his business partner, for example, and he'd never found another full-time job; after that, they had lost their furniture, and then their apartments in Mirpur and Savar, and only Ghaniyah's father's intervention — securing the apartment in Mohammadpur at a special price, through a business associate — had kept them from becoming homeless altogether.
In a general peace conference at Sparta, the Spartans, with their authority enhanced by the threat of Persian intervention, secured the acquiescence of all the major states of Greece to these terms.
One better scenario is that the junta withdraw their political ambitions, a civilian transition government is established, and then some kind of international intervention secures the civilian government.
President Clinton's intervention helped secure progress in the Middle East and Northern Ireland.
A decent gesture, but it's a pity it took media intervention to secure it.
Nor would serious popular protest be tolerated any longer, now that the Jacobins had used such intervention to secure power.
