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How to use the word intervening in a Sentence?

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What’s concerning is that now, in a warming climate, even in some of the wet years, we’re seeing significant or even elevated severe fire activity because of how dry and warm it gets in the intervening months.

Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While intervening in a vehicle theft in Cherbourg, two police officers were injured.

French Interior Minister Gérard Darmanin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Roe's central holding remains clear and workable, and it has only been further reinforced by intervening legal and factual developments, and the passage of another three decades means that every American woman of reproductive age has grown up against the backdrop of the right secured by Roe and Casey, which has become even more deeply woven into the Nation's social fabric.

Biden Justice Department

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Far too many residents have borne the consequences of the combination of firearms and failed conflict resolution and I join a frustrated community in calling for an end to this cycle of violence, iMPD and the City of Indianapolis will continue to try every solution, incorporate every best practice we can. But we cannot do it alone. It will take neighbors sharing information, supporting those who are hurting, intervening when someone is headed down a dangerous path.

Joe Hogsett

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In the intervening nine months, the city has not found a permanent location for them, and now City Hall is threatening to evict them from I.S. 238 leaving them without a place to learn.

Success Academy

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

What worries me is that The US is becoming China by trying to block off apps, we too are censoring ; we too are intervening in the markets for data.

Susan Ariel Aaronson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Concealing the truth is concealing Russians are again intervening to help the president in his reelection.

Adam Schiff

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Brazil has a lot of reserves, and as a percentage of GDP they have actually risen because the (FX) depreciation has been greater than the amount we have sold, there is a lot of room to sell reserves. We will continue intervening, and may even increase that intervention if we believe it is necessary.

Campos Neto

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

This was not the outcome we wanted, but they can rest assured that they will hear from us, from advocates and from everyday Virginians in the intervening months about why we need to ban assault weapons in Virginia Beach, in the meantime, Judiciary Committee and Virginia Senate must swiftly pass the remaining seven, common-sense gun violence prevention laws before them. We need the action that voters demanded in November.

Brady President Kris Brown

Found on CNN
4 years ago

At different times, the President has expressed different views, i wouldn't get too distracted by an intervening tweet.

John Cornyn

Found on CNN
4 years ago

What Ashiqul Alam did not know was that Ashiqul Alam was buying weapons from government agents, who were monitoring Ashiqul Alam plans and intervening to prevent those plans from escalating into deadly violence.

Richard Donoghue

Found on CNN
4 years ago

As alleged, Ashiqul Alam bought illegal weapons as part of Ashiqul Alam plan to kill law enforcement officers and civilians in a terrorist attack on Times Square, what Ashiqul Alam did not know was that Ashiqul Alam was buying weapons from government agents, who were monitoring Ashiqul Alam plans and intervening to prevent those plans from escalating into deadly violence.

Richard Donoghue

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We're going to file an amended complaint seeking additional remedies, it's incredulous that the university changed its position from yesterday to today, with the only intervening action being the filing of the lawsuit.

David Kenner

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Johnson, 68, faces execution after being convicted in the 1984 murder of Connie Johnson, Connie Johnson. Several religious leaders, include the president of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church, of which Johnson is a member, have urged Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to grant Johnson clemency. Johnsons supporters said the inmate experienced a religious conversion and now ministers to other prisoners. BOY, 8, FINDS GUN AND ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTS MOM AT COLLEGE BASEBALL GAME On Tuesday, Leeannounced his decision to deny clemencyfor Johnson, FOX 17 reported. After a prayerful and deliberate consideration of Don Johnsons request for clemency, and after a thorough review of the case, I am upholding the sentence of the State of Tennessee and will not be intervening.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The setback won't be able to be measured here and now, i can't tell you that funding of these programs would have prevented Pittsburgh or Poway, but I can say in good conscience that we sure would have stood a better chance at preventing or intervening in incidents like this had funding for these programs continued.

George Selim

Found on CNN
4 years ago

They've been trying to argue to both the United States and to other countries that they are making progress on reform, and they're opening up, they're intervening less heavily in their economy, so a lot of the non-tariff retaliation probably undermines that image that they're trying to project.

United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Now with two crashes with a brand-new aircraft, what Boeing did in the intervening five months is more relevant, and that all happened in the United States.

Daniel Rose

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Absolutely not, this is a matter that has been reviewed by Department of Justice leadership. This is a matter that has been defended by the Department of Justice over the intervening 12 years across five attorneys general and multiple administrations.

Alexander Acosta

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It seems to me to be an odd thing to say at this point in the process, she's not in The President jurisdiction. She's in Canadian jurisdiction. Intervening in the process means he would talk to [ Canadian Prime Minister Justin ] Trudeau, who has said more than once the normal judicial process will go ahead. It just creates another point of friction with Canada.

The President

Found on CNN
5 years ago

From a legal perspective... you have an allegation, you have an investigation, and then you have testimony, the notion that they are providing her due process -- a forum to tell her story, which she has already told in written form -- without there being an intervening investigation makes no sense to me legally.

Michael Zeldin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is not about intervening in a civil war. It is not about regime change.

Theresa May

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Information is power, and all women should have access to the information they need when making personal health care decisions, the Reproductive FACT Act ensures that women in California receive accurate information about their health care options, including whether a facility is a licensed medical provider. The California Department of Justice will do everything necessary to protect women’s health care rights. The attorney general was not immediately available for additional comment when contacted by Fox News. The Supreme Court is intervening to regulate these types of laws and provide a sense of consistency. Indeed, other courts in states like New York, Texas and Maryland have invalidated laws that were similar to The Reproductive FACT Act. But some states -- such as Hawaii and Illinois -- currently have similar laws in place, which, like in California, have also led to appeals and other lawsuits. Specifically in Hawaii, Thomas Glessner said, one of the pregnancy resource centers is located in a church.

Xavier Becerra

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I was on the way to winning until the combination of Jim Comey's letter on October 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off, and the evidence for that intervening event is compelling, persuasive.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I was on the way to winning until a combination of Jim Comey's letter on October 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me and got scared off. And the evidence for that intervening event is I think compelling, persuasive and so we overcame a lot in the campaign.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
7 years ago

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