Sentence examples for opposed interventions from inspiring English sources

An alternative interpretation of the post-disturbance landscape, however, welcomed it as a step towards authentic wilderness and opposed interventions to control the bark beetle.

(Charles Lindbergh's America First Committee opposed intervention in the Second World War).

As a mild leftist, contributing to the magazine The Masses, he had opposed intervention.

Those who opposed intervention are also stained with blood, goes the argument.

On average, 70 percent of those asked in 10 European countries and Turkey opposed intervention.

Reluctantly, Blum remained aloof; his Radical allies strongly opposed intervention and threatened to bring down the cabinet.

Nonetheless, he was a consistent and passionate critic of American policies in the Middle East, and opposed intervention in Iraq long before the Iraq war began.

Giolitti actively opposed intervention in World War I because he knew that Italy, which had declared neutrality in August 1914, was unprepared.

They both had strong records on labour support, with Hoover having opposed intervention in labour disputes and Smith having engineered improvements to conditions for city workers in New York City.

Burns said he did not know whether the Commons would support military action, but it was worth trying – adding that some Conservative colleagues who opposed intervention in Syria last August took a different position this time.

Though clearly imbued with a sense of outrage, Power is judicious in her portraits of those who opposed intervention, and keenly aware of the perils and costs of military action.