of Intervene
Source: Webster's dictionaryLike all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. Lawrence Durrell
When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him. Laura Hillenbrand
In Thomas's creation nothing intervened between God and his world [.... ] The intermediate Universals,- the secondary causes,- vanish as causes; they are, at most, sequences or relations; all merge in one universal act of will; instantaneous, infinite, eternal. Henry Adams
I have been disinvited at several conferences (and no doubt silently excluded from speaking there at many more) because, though my abstract was judged interesting enough, someone up there was briefed about my views and associations, and intervened to my detriment. Koenraad Elst
Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar. Shirley Jackson
I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened. Katherine Paterson