For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions. From LearnThat.org. [Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)]
Patrolling parties that are designed to separate the parties in an actual or potential confrontation are called interposition patrols. From Wordnik.com. [FM 7-98 Chapter 4 - Peacekeeping]
Following St. Gregory of Nyssa's account, Brandon labels that something as "interposition" and fleshes out a bit about what that meant for Gregory. From Wordnik.com. [The filioque V: replies to objections] Reference
Thus was the doctrine of "interposition" transferred from South to. From Wordnik.com. [The United States of America, Part 1] Reference
So it is with the current wave of enthusiasm for "states 'rights," "interposition," and. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
Vain every kind of interposition; worse than imprudence to give the poor creature money or money's worth. From Wordnik.com. [The Nether World] Reference
"interposition" set forth by the Hartford Convention. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Webster] Reference
"interposition." nullification and another one called interposition, "said the rabbi. From Wordnik.com. [LifeSiteNews.com Headlines] Reference
But Ingraham's interposition essentially kills the satire. From Wordnik.com. [In 'Obama Diaries,' self-absorbed musings] Reference
But the wound is not to be healed without divine interposition. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
His terrors -- but for my interposition -- would have ruined you utterly. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
The interposition of the cloth requires about one-half additional exposure. From Wordnik.com. [Bromide Printing and Enlarging A Practical Guide to the Making of Bromide Prints by Contact and Bromide Enlarging by Daylight and Artificial Light, With the Toning of Bromide Prints and Enlargements] Reference
Happily, by the interposition of his brother, all differences were peaceably compromised. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
The interposition of the great-hearted Lincoln alone saved the young officer from being shot. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
We simply cannot afford to continue a 21st century version of "interposition and nullification.". From Wordnik.com. [James Bell: Troubled Waters In California: Unbalanced Scales of Justice] Reference
The Commons addressed the King, praying for his kind interposition and immediate assistance to the colony. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
To add to this, the conquest of the Incas by Pizarro and his followers was regarded a miracle of divine interposition. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The rationale of applying under water the tissue on the gelatinized paper is to avoid the interposition of air bubbles. From Wordnik.com. [Photographic Reproduction Processes] Reference
Many Southern states began to pass pro-segregation laws that adopted the interposition language promoted by Mr. Kilpatrick. From Wordnik.com. [James J. Kilpatrick, 89, dies; conservative columnist formerly on '60 Minutes'] Reference
In consequence I felt very grateful to him, and supposed it was his interposition that had set me right with the government. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
His interposition received with such shout of contumely from friends and neighbours that he incontinently dropped back into his seat. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914] Reference
To deny a supernatural interposition they can swallow contradictions, and build hypotheses far more wonderful than the greatest miracles. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
By them he would stand in their extremity, and if hurt or ruin befell them, it should not be for want of the interposition of his counsel. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
He would frankly confess that he knew of no right which a subject could enjoy without the interposition of the crown in some manner or other. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
These rigors, however, he moderated at the interposition of his superior's authority, and from that time was more private in his mortifications. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Besides the fact this argument was settled at Appomattox, it is the 14th Amendment that renders the interposition and nullification argument archaic. From Wordnik.com. [Byron Williams: Is This the Year of the 14th Amendment?] Reference
Her first act was to release Sam-Chung, who lay bound ready for his death, which but for her interposition would have taken place within a few hours. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference
Earlier this year we were privy to the 14th Amendment's importance ignored as right-wing candidates ran on an interposition and nullification platform. From Wordnik.com. [Byron Williams: Is This the Year of the 14th Amendment?] Reference
This all is accomplished by the interposition and active concern of friends, by efforts at reunion managed by benevolent intriguers and kindly advisers. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
The walls are covered with expressions of gratitude to it, and with pictures illustrating the manner in which its miraculous interposition was displayed. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
By the interposition of the duke of Cumberland, such a change in the administration took place as promised an alteration of measures with respect to America. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
That in the Commons ended in a motion for an adjournment, carried by a majority of seven only, and intended to avoid any further interposition in that House. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
Decades earlier, when faced with the "interposition and nullification" of legalized segregation, Dr. King clamored for justice to roll like water in a mighty stream. From Wordnik.com. [James Bell: Troubled Waters In California: Unbalanced Scales of Justice] Reference
The same verse continued brings out the effect of the god's, or of the poet's interposition, in the instantaneous consternation and utter scattering of the rascal rout. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
The people complained of the insufficiency of that government which could not protect them, and at the same time prevented the interposition of the Crown for this purpose. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
The reader, however, may be disposed to conjecture, that as much of the divine interposition might be expected to decide the healing of a burn or scald, as the issue of a battle. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
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