Sentence examples for took an intervention from inspiring English sources

During the debate, the prime minister took an intervention from the veteran leftwinger Dennis Skinner.

In early 2005, though, the velodrome closed, and it took an intervention by British Cycling to reopen it that August.

It took an intervention from Ben Stokes to end South Africa's first opening partnership above 50 in eight innings and it was only the 11th over.

And it still took an intervention by the new CPS chief prosecutor for the north-west, Nazir Afzal – who also brought charges against the Rochdale sex exploitation ring – before this traumatic case finally came to court.

IT took an intervention of sorts to bring together Dr. Rachel Steward, a hyper-energetic physician from rural Vermont, and Peter Lord Moreland, a laid-back musician from Brooklyn, known professionally as Peter Lord.

It took an intervention from US ambassador Samantha Power, who said she was determined "to put an end to the inexcusable attempt to deny Freedom Now's official NGO status".

But there is a recognition in her final report (pdf), particularly with regard to methods, that it is "simply not a case of taking an intervention off the shelf and applying it to a child and family".

Do you want to take an intervention like estrogen plus progestin that will reduce hot flashes 90percentt, probably, at the cost of having a 1 in 25 chance of having this abnormal mammogram, which might be more significant?

I've been enjoying the view here (but it may take an intervention to get me off of twitterspy).

Taking an intervention such as this to scale may well require customization, refinement, and additional evaluation to ensure that the incremental message hits its psychological mark (Yeager & Walton, 2011).

It took a backstage intervention from his co-star Joan Jett — "she literally grabbed me by the collar one day and said, 'You need to rock 'n' roll out' " — before he could do justice to the role.