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- noun political science The policy of a state of not
intervening in the domestic affairs of another.
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Examples
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"I can assure Chávez that the policy of the Costa Rican government is non-intervention in the internal affairs of any country," Pacheco remarked.
Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Costa Rica Is a Willing U.S. Partner in Central America Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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Clearly, Ganji thinks the Obama administration isn't striking the right balance between non-intervention and humanitarian concerns.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Thursday June 18) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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But generally you get the politics of Christianity rather than the angels, maybe because these people are WASPs; their belief system has a Newtonian watchmaker running the show but with a strict non-intervention policy.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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"I can assure Chávez that the policy of the Costa Rican government is non-intervention in the internal affairs of any country," Pacheco remarked.
Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Costa Rica Is a Willing U.S. Partner in Central America Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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Long term growth seems to be on the side of non-intervention, while short term fluctuation is on the side of interventionism.
Matthew Yglesias » Amar Bhide, WSJ Edit Page, Embrace Regular Recurrence of Massive Recessions 2009
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I believe that this anti-Bosnia (three years, then, of non-intervention !) which is also an anti-Rwanda (an international community that sat on its hands, waiting for the massacre to be accomplished!) honors an era in which we have finally understood that a man's home is not always his castle.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: A Reply -- With Regret -- to Claude Lanzmann Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011
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Both believed that an Austrian School non-intervention would have allowed the industry to collapse.
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Both believed that an Austrian School non-intervention would have allowed the industry to collapse.
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Our foreign policy will be based on the Brazilian diplomatic tradition's classic values: to foster peace, to respect the principle of non-intervention, to defend human rights and to strengthen multilateralism.
Dilma Rousseff Inauguration Speech: Brazil's First Female President Addresses Congress In Brasilia (FULL TEXT) Adam J. Rose 2011
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The ostensible reason that relators may prosecute a FCA action in what the qui tam bar calls “non-intervention cases” is primarily to preserve limited prosecutorial resources.
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