direct intervention
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdirectandintervention
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direct
adjective
uk/daɪˈrekt/us/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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intervention
noun
uk/ˌɪn.təˈven.ʃən/us/ˌɪn.t̬ɚˈven.ʃən/
the action of becoming intentionally involved in a difficult situation, in order to improve it or prevent it from ...
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(Definition ofdirectandinterventionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Proprietary interest could develop intodirectintervention.
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They depict housing processes in relatively unfettered markets with comparatively few government regulations anddirectintervention.
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Helping them may require more than adirectinterventionto alleviate their circumstances.
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That is adirectintervention.
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The mostdirectinterventionis imposed training, such as the driving school requirement or the obligation to attend professional schools.
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But they expressed this consciousness in ways which did not require thedirectinterventionof state power to enforce it.
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Onlydirectinterventionin the stock size can bring the market solution into accordance with overall optimality.
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At the same time, liberals advocatedirectinterventionby the private and voluntary sectors in the provision of welfare.
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Costs fordirectinterventionservices and clinical supervision were calculated using actual personnel costs, fringe benefit costs, and overhead costs.
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They instead tried to develop forms of control that would not involvedirectinterventionin the production process itself.
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It is a scheme fordirectintervention.
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My fourth concern is aboutdirectintervention.
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They are being stopped fromdirectintervention.
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There may bedirectinterventionat the school level.
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We may have to facedirectinterventionin industry.
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Is not that itself a form ofdirectintervention?
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Some years ago there was much moredirectintervention.
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That is the kind ofdirectinterventionwe could have.
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Elimination of the dirigiste forms ofdirectintervention(for example, industrial subsidies, commands) did not mean the end of the state's proactive role.
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I mean it was a big lesson, again if you needed any reinforcement, about how that kind ofdirectintervention can really have unexpected expectational consequences.
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Early prediction of which children are more likely to experience more inattention 0 hyperactivity may make it possible todirectinterventionto those children most in need.
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The only way we can do this is bydirectintervention.
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The same cannot be said aboutdirectinterventionin specific cases that we are aware of.
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Today sea power is becoming capable ofdirectinterventionin the land battle.
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It is an area in which theirdirectinterventionis almost always destructive.
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