English-French translations for intervene

interposerPour une fois, l’armée peut intervenir d’une manière positive afin de s’interposer entre les assassins et les assassinés. For once, the army can intervene in a positive way in order to come between the murderers and the murdered.
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Alors, pourquoi ne pas intervenir directement? So why not intervene straight away? Nous devons intervenir dans ce dossier. We need to intervene in this matter. Le gouvernement roumain ne saurait intervenir de quelque manière que ce soit. The Government of Romania cannot intervene in any way.

To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action
To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events
To occur or act as an obstacle or delay
To say in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people
To come between, or to be between, persons or things
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., ''Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence,'Boston: Little, Brown, 1879, Volume1, p.641,^{[https://archive.org/details/cu31924022836583]}

The police had to be called to intervene in the fight
An instant intervened between the flash and the report
I hadnt seen him since we were in school, and the intervening years had not been kind to him
Nothing intervened to prevent the undertaking
The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa
an application for leave (i.e. permission) to intervene

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