Preposition: on

• behalf: For that very reason they frequently appealed to the forces of imperial law and order to intervene on behalf of the oppressed.

Object

• decade: For the progress of that term in the intervening decade has been little short of spectacular.

• year: In the intervening years I got to know John quite well.

Modifying Another Word

• militarily: Vital interests ( in the sense defined above of an obligation to intervene militarily ) would then be involved.

Used with why or when

• wherever: The FTAA will also provide the USA to intervene militarily wherever it decides ' representative democracy ' has broken down.

• where: Teachers are expected to intervene where appropriate to reinforce an idea or teach a new point.

Infinitive complement

• halt: The Thailand government has called on the Burmese government to intervene to halt the drug traffic.

• prevent: The government should intervene to prevent banks ruining the industry.

• protect: People do have to intervene to protect vulnerable people.

• save: In his view, God would not intervene to save his people from the Nazis.

Preposition: in

• affair: The Commission has wide powers to intervene in the affairs of a charity where things have gone wrong.

• dispute: Yet, the lords of the Admiralty remained very hesitant about the Prime Minister's decision to intervene in the succession dispute in Lagos.

• proceeding: In the light of what she said in her affidavit the bureau sought permission to intervene in these proceedings.

• row: The Togolese Prime Minister Edem Kodjo had said he would travel to Germany to personally intervene in the row.

• debate: In particular, there is the necessity for revolutionaries to intervene in the concrete debates of the day.