nonintervention
Americannoun
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abstention by a nation from interference in the affairs of other nations or in those of its own political subdivisions.
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failure or refusal to intervene.
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Origin of nonintervention
First recorded in 1820–30; non- + intervention
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British, French, and other European powers pursued a policy of nonintervention, however, believing it prudent given Japanese expansion in Asia and elsewhere and the U.S. policy of neutrality.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Charter’s principles of nonintervention and territorial sovereignty, while also preserving the organization’s neutrality.
From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2022
They remained until 1934, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt pulled them out as part of his new Good Neighbor Policy, which called for regional nonintervention.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2019
Whether it’s health care or Syria, we’re still wrestling with it—questions of intervention, nonintervention, how we deal with the disadvantage in this country.
From Slate • Sep. 22, 2017
The Pope John XII. had been desired to appoint the king; he pleaded the principle of nonintervention, and bade the nation execute its own laws and its own will.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
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