intervened

Incidentally, this piece is later than usual because heavy politics intervened from the beginning of the week on and this show airs late on Sunday night.

William Bradley: Mad Men : "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" (And Really Suspend Your Disbelief?) William Bradley 2010

Incidentally, this piece is later than usual because heavy politics intervened from the beginning of the week on and this show airs late on Sunday night.

William Bradley: Mad Men : "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" (And Really Suspend Your Disbelief?) William Bradley 2010

Incidentally, this piece is later than usual because heavy politics intervened from the beginning of the week on and this show airs late on Sunday night.

William Bradley: Mad Men: "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" (And Really Suspend Your Disbelief?) William Bradley 2010

Washington's Chasity Melvin intervened to keep the scene from getting uglier.

USATODAY.com 2004

Then fortune again intervened for they obtained their results in the midst of a great war when ordinary economics are in abeyance and large scale production could go ahead as it would never have done in times of peace.

Sir Alexander Fleming - Banquet Speech 1946

The minister again intervened to smooth matters down with instances of the power and value of the race thus called in question.

Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891

On the following day an unusually heavy and unintermitting fall of rain intervened to obstruct our advance.

Foreign and Colonial News 1862

Stung by public indifference to his debut album, he intended to call the follow-up Bryan Adams Hasn't Heard Of You Either before his record label intervened.

BBC News - Home 2011

Needle had been so angered that he wanted to rope and cut the bull, but Call intervened.

The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

Needle had been so angered that he wanted to rope and cut the bull, but Call intervened.

Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985