(v. i.) To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
(v. i.) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.
(v. i.) To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.
(v. i.) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
(v. t.) To come between.
(n.) A coming between; intervention; meeting.
Example Sentences:
(1) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
(2) This lack of symmetry in shape and magnitude may be due to non-sphericity of the skull over the temporal region or to variations in conductivities of intervening tissues.
(3) In another protocol, fourteen volunteers received calcitriol 0.25 microgram, 0.5 microgram, and 1.0 microgram twice a day each for 14 days with intervening control periods of 2 weeks.
(4) The catalytic activity of ribonucleic acid is reviewed, with the intervening sequence (IVS) of the ribosomal RNA precursor of Tetrahymena serving as a major example.
(5) The initiator of an aggressive encounter was likely to be successful if there was no adult interaction, but to be unsuccessful if an adult intervened.
(6) The nested gene is oriented in a direction opposite to that of factor VIII and contains no intervening sequences.
(7) This study addresses the practices of BSE and intervening factors influencing BSE routines in women with a known breast malignancy.
(8) A binaural noise with an interaural time difference of 0.8 msec was presented in three conditions: alone, with intervening noise that was identical between the two ears, or with uncorrelated intervening noise.
(9) The different entity of reversibility of bronchial obstruction is due to the various mechanisms intervening in different patients.
(10) In 11 adult patients with isolated valvular aortic stenosis, the progression of the disease was assessed by two heart catheterisations without intervening aortic valve surgery.
(11) We have designed a bacterial expression vector series which is optimized for efficient site-directed mutagenesis and subsequent protein synthesis without intervening subcloning steps.
(12) Seven intervening sequences interrupt the ovomucoid mRNA sequence in chromosomal DNA.
(13) The vessel number, the vessel diameter and the distance intervening between contiguous vessels were measured.
(14) Children were delivered after uncomplicated pregnancies (except hypothyroxinemia), had birth weights of at least 2,500 grams, and were excluded when postnatal insults intervened.
(15) Judge Morrison intervened: "As you know, Dr Karadzic … it isn't the Serbian people who are indicted in this case, nor the Serbian state.
(16) This percutaneous procedure consists of creation of an internal fistula between the 2 pelves by incision of the intervening tissue with an optical urethrotome.
(17) Transmission of M bovis occurring in the absence of some other intervening factor was probably of minimal importance.
(18) A radiologic-pathologic correlative investigation of the normal age-related alterations in the spinous processes and intervening soft tissues was performed using cadaveric spines and both ancient and modern macerated vertebral specimens.
(19) As for group I specifically, colonic ulcerations due to Cytomegalovirus were present in all the patients, varying from punctate and superficial erosions to deep ulcerations, with granular and friable intervening mucosa.
(20) The first and last test were unloaded and the intervening tests were performed with external added resistances of 33, 57, and 73 cm H2O X l-1 X s in random order.