Collocations for intervene - verb

actively, directly | personally | decisively | effectively, successfully | militarily
Intervening militarily will not bring peace.

be forced to, have to
Eventually, the army was forced to intervene.

be reluctant to | be powerless to
Local people feel strongly about the proposed development but are virtually powerless to intervene.

have the power to, have the right to
Our government has no right to intervene.

refuse to
The UN refused to intervene.

against
They would not intervene against the rebels themselves.

between
She went over to intervene between the two men.

in
She was reluctant to intervene in what was essentially a private dispute.

on behalf of
The King intervened personally on behalf of the children.

with
to intervene with the authorities on the prisoners'' behalf