How to Use interventionism in a Sentence

interventionism

noun
  • The left The trend of economic interventionism quickly caught on in the United States.
    John Broich, The Conversation, 30 July 2019
  • What’s needed and has been needed for a long while is interventionism, big-time.
    Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Vietnam is a case in point of how doves and hawks can both be right about American interventionism.
    Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 14 Mar. 2021
  • The irony of the former secretary of state’s involvement in the project nags at the film, which flirts with criticisms of the United States’ hawkish interventionism.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Carter wanted to end the Cold War, in Bird’s analysis, but Brzezinski held tight to habits of anti-communism and interventionism.
    Washington Post, 18 June 2021
  • The global war on terror made U.S. interventionism and promotion of freedom around the world unpopular at home and abroad.
    Shay Khatiri, The Week, 26 Mar. 2022
  • The new fad of nationalism on the right has brought many conservatives into agreement with the left on non-interventionism and realism.
    Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 26 June 2019
  • Indeed, Americans have far less appetite now for the liberal interventionism of that era.
    Kanishk Tharoor, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2021
  • While Uber and Lyft will likely pour substantial incentives into the city to regain market share, Austin’s deep independent streak could make the taint of the companies’ interventionism hard to shake.
    David Z. Morris, Fortune, 28 May 2017
  • Unconstrained by that rivalry, some who had opposed interventionism during and after the Vietnam War changed their minds.
    Jonathan M. Dicicco, Washington Post, 5 July 2018
  • A year or two is a long time in American politics, especially with a right wing that continues to shed its free-market stances in favor of populist interventionism.
    James Pethokoukis, The Week, 10 Feb. 2022
  • May is seeking to reinforce the Tories as the party of business by contrasting her approach to the state interventionism on display at Labour’s annual conference in Brighton this week.
    Alex Morales, Bloomberg.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Disillusion with the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars has also dampened public support in Britain for interventionism and fueled fierce opposition on both the populist right and the socialist left.
    David A. Cowan, National Review, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Proponents of Middle Eastern regimes will argue that the growing gap between the region's leadership and its people is a lesser danger to states than the risk posed by clumsy Western interventionism.
    Frederik Pleitgen, CNN, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Still, Blinken and others have suggested that the era of American interventionism is probably fading.
    Anchorage Daily News, 24 Nov. 2020
  • A lot of the violence has been perpetrated in part by U.S. military interventionism, and one of the more obscure topics is the School of the Americas, which started the whole neoliberalism movement.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Still, skeptics are right to point out that the dollar’s role has indirectly funded American interventionism and that dollar sanctions have been overused, provoking the ire of American allies.
    Joshua Zoffer, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Increasingly, the party is under pressure, not just from the Left but also the Right, to adopt a more aggressive economic and corporate interventionism to champion workers.
    Zaid Jilani, Washington Examiner, 31 Dec. 2020
  • By Friday morning, talk of interventionism was verboten.
    Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Though each gets some things right, neither shows any sign of rejecting the past 20 years of global military interventionism and implementing a humane and prudent foreign policy where the goal is not American supremacy but peace.
    Bonnie Kristian, TheWeek, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Also, the interventionism of some countries of the European Union discourages investments, slowing down the growth of renewables and the energy transition itself.
    Byignacio Galán, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The plaints from the administration and its most committed journalistic supporters that the coverage has been unfair and the product of a press biased toward interventionism ring hollow.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Trump provided a critique of the consistent interventionism that defined post–Cold War foreign policy.
    Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Italy’s drive to reassert control over its patchy broadband network has opened a conflict with the country’s largest telecommunications company, in the latest episode of state interventionism by Premier Giuseppe Conte’s government.
    John Follain, Bloomberg.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Mr. Hadley, who might also be considered for defense secretary, pushed Mr. Bush to undertake the troop surge in Iraq and is closely identified with the military interventionism of that administration.
    Mark Landler, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2016
  • This marked a distinct break from Mr. Clinton’s liberal interventionism.
    Seth Cropsey, National Review, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The move away from interventionism has drawn criticism from hawks who remain committed to strategies that forefront military action and American dominance around the world, despite that approach’s sorry track record.
    Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 13 June 2022
  • For America’s foreign critics and foes, Bolton often plays the role of a boogeyman, representing the worst of U.S. foreign policy and neoconservative interventionism.
    Ana Herrero, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
  • The film celebrates the indomitable spirit of the Cuban people -- particularly the children -- who have endured decades of Spanish and American interventionism and economic deprivation.
    John Benson, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Abrams is a prominent neoconservative, a supporter of the Iraq war and robust American interventionism.
    Albert R. Hunt, The Denver Post, 27 Feb. 2017

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