"We've increased the interventions over the years.
Some of the interventions over [that] weekend created a great deal of bad will".
Investigation leading to prosecution may not be possible, because of lost evidence, dead witnesses, and various interventions over the years.
The decisions on the indicators will drive global data collection efforts, policy debates and interventions over the coming 15 years.
Falconer said of the interventions over the weekend: "I thought [Carey's intervention, in an article for the Daily Mail] was profoundly significant.
But in a region that has experienced numerous American interventions over the past century, there was little popular support for the United States position, and neither country ended up voting as Washington wanted.
But he argues that the lesson often drawn from the chequered record of these interventions over two decades – namely, that "state-building is a mug's game" – is precisely the wrong one.
It is clear that Downing Street and the Treasury have been irritated by Duncan Smith's interventions over the EU, not least his dismissal of government publications as "dodgy dossiers".
"Tobacco addiction is best considered a chronic disease, with most smokers requiring repeated interventions over time before achieving permanent abstinence," Dr. Neal L. Benowitz of the University of California, San Francisco, said last month in The American Journal of Medicine.
Still, David Cameron has made a series of media interventions over the past few weeks designed to assure Britons that he is as petrified as they are.
US intelligence chiefs are far more outspoken these days than their counterparts in Britain about the calamitous consequences of US-led foreign interventions over the past 12 years.
