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humanitarian intervention

Noun

Meaning

humanitarian intervention (countable and uncountable, plural humanitarian interventions)

The deployment of army personnel for humanitarian-motivated goals.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms. Boris Yeltsin

I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism. Stanley Hauerwas

I believe it's time for the left to revive its ethical foreign policy and in particular, rebuild the case for a progressive approach to humanitarian intervention. Jo Cox

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