Sentence examples for lead an intervention from inspiring English sources

The only west African state with the military beef to lead an intervention is generally in favour of dispatching peace-making troops but is preoccupied with its own elections this month.

For the first time since Suez, Britain and France led an intervention in the Middle East.

In December 1992 the United States led an intervention by a multinational force of more than 35,000 troops, which imposed an uneasy peace on the principal warring clans and pushed supplies into the famine-stricken areas.

In fact, a lot of actual things have happened: Saudi Arabia executed Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, led an intervention in Yemen to fight rebels backed by Iran and withdrew their diplomats after their embassy in Tehran was attacked.

The clashes eventually complicated efforts to address a famine, prompting the U.S. to lead a U.N. intervention to open food-supply routes.

He said such a government would reform the security sector, "and lead a military intervention in the north to restore and maintain Mali's territorial integrity".

In early January, the African Union chairman - Benin's President Thomas Yayi Boni - called for Nato to lead an Afghanistan-styled intervention in Mali.

Such activities occasionally lead to an intervention by the chairperson and, accordingly, make visible the norms and limits of the institutional setting.

Hull fans' group City Til We Die hopes that could lead to an intervention and accused Allam of confusing the holding company and the football team name.

He had led an unsuccessful intervention in the country's civil war (see his Wikipedia entry).

Now is the time for America to step up and lead a NATO military intervention to topple the Syrian regime?