humanitarian intervention
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.75 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
24
Letters
9
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The events of 1999 in Kosovo and East Timor provide an important opportunity to reflect on the practice of humanitarian intervention."
- "We may be in the middle of a process in which some fundamental ideas or norms about international politics are being transformed, and the increasing willingness to consider humanitarian intervention may be part of this evolution."
- "But in some respects humanitarian intervention looks more like police work than war."
- "Although realism fails... it provides some salutary warnings about the distortions that moral perspectives can produce [and] the malevolent action of states... [but] warfare destroys lives, property, infrastructure, and environment in ways that pressures do not."