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Interference

noun

A policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries. Synonym: intervention.

The act of hindering or obstructing or impeding. Synonyms: hinderance, hindrance.

Electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication. Synonyms: disturbance, noise.

(American football) blocking a player's path with your body.

Any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome. Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, preventative, preventive.

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"Interference" Quotes from Famous Books

... been Anglicized, and the time is at hand when it must be AMERICANIZED! Now, Sir, you see what Americanizing is in politics;—it means that a man shall have a vote because he is a man,—and shall vote for whom he pleases, without his neighbor's interference. If he chooses to vote for the Devil, that is his lookout;—perhaps he thinks the Devil is better than the other candidates; and I don't doubt he's often right, Sir. Just so a man's soul has a vote in the spiritual community; ...

— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)

... people, organized and cunning if not enlightened, is the perpetual tribunal set up by them for the redress of wrong and the rule of justice. It soon supplies itself with all the requisite machinery, and is ready and apt for all kinds of interference. The people may be a child all its life. The central power may not be able to suggest the best scientific solution of a problem; but it has the easiest means of carrying an idea into effect. If the purpose to be attained is a large one, it requires a large comprehension; ...

— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike

... offered to her by him will now be gratefully received and remembered in after life. After marriage it may be too late; for advice on trivial points of conduct may then not improbably be resented by the wife as an unnecessary interference: now, the fair and loving creature is disposed like pliant wax in his hands to mould herself to his reasonable ...

— Routledge's Manual of Etiquette • George Routledge

... had just initiated into love's mysteries—bref—he stood stiff as ever, and Mary, at first with a shudder of fright, then with all the energy of awakened passion, began to move her body under me. I held off from any interference, feeling certain that if the desire came naturally to her it would doubly enhance my own pleasure. My foresight did not fail me. Mary's passions became fully aroused, and when so, the trifling soreness passed out of mind, and we actually had a most ...

— The Romance of Lust - A classic Victorian erotic novel • Anonymous

... said softly, when he had finished, "I like you better than any man I know, except one; and that one thinks of me as his good little sister, so you needn't be afraid of his interference. But—there's ...

— Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

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