#intervention

This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#attack #background #experience #future #interventions

Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#activities #behaviour #changes #combination #comprise

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#been #bit #blessing #democratic #disguise

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#birthday party #emotionally #ever #exhausting #horrible

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#intervention #intimidation #judges #must #political

If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#accept #eliminate #good #good thing #human

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#about #antics #choice #decisions #government

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government. ↗

— Harold Washington

#american #american history #democracy #federal #federal government

I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#behaving #case #corrupt #criminal #criminality

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#complex #consequences #fact #foreign #foreign policy