We value personal freedom, are suspicious of scientists, and tend to distrust the kind of sweeping government intervention required to confront rising greenhouse gas emissions.
The interventions aim to confront complex issues, such as the migration of health professionals, the need to make the health system more responsive to demographic changes and the ageing population, and the challenge of ensuring the presence of professionals in remote and rural locations [ 1].
French president Francois Hollande told Le Monde that a global effort "beyond the traditional debate of intervention or non-intervention" was necessary to confront Isis, and proposed an international meeting next month.
Their intent is to record reality with as little intervention as possible, to confront the spectator with a more or less unvarnished truth that asks viewers to draw their own conclusions.
Members of Parliament have voted in favour of UK military intervention in Iraq, to confront Islamic State (IS) militants.
The Spears family at long last rallied this week to stage an intervention, hiring a specialist to confront the talk-show psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw after he visited Britney Spears in the hospital and began preparing a special about her meltdown.
Last autumn's military intervention by Russia, ostensibly to confront the growing menace of Isis but in fact targeting mainstream rebel groups fighting Assad, galvanised moves to launch the Vienna process – of which this Geneva meeting is the outcome.
In particular, there is an economic efficiency-based case for public funding and promotion of research on non-clinical preventive interventions, in Germany and beyond, to confront the peculiar challenges that set this research apart from its clinical counterpart.
News commentators following the theatrics described the showdown at City Hall as a kind of "public intervention" to force a substance abuser to confront his addictions.
David Cameron has said there is a "strong case" for UK military intervention in Syria, as well as Iraq, to confront Islamic State (IS).
