Sentences with phrase «for armed intervention»

There must be clear pragmatic reasons for any armed intervention.

But one month later, once Britain was committed to military action, the level of support for armed intervention was again at 80 per cent.

Not exact matches

Johnson focuses on four aspects of contemporary armed conflict that, while not unprecedented, have become special concerns: the legitimacy of intervention, the place of noncombatants, the significance of cultural differences, and procedures for dealing with war crimes and achieving reconciliation after conflict.

In the debates over humanitarian intervention in the 1990s some moralists made a distinction between «war,» which they understood as having to do with state uses of armed force for their own interests, and intervention by military force for humanitarian purposes, which they regarded as altruistic and not «war.»

Women allocated to the intervention arm will be cared for in a midwifery continuity of care model and receive an informational leaflet on managing weight gain in pregnancy.

One of the cluster - randomised trials (McLachlan 2016) also contributed two intervention arms and splitting over the control group was included in the adjustment for clustering.

No information given for women in intervention arm.

Such a move would surely see him call for a change in Britain's armed forces — where Britain was less able to make major interventions abroad, even if he did not call for a formal cut in the armed forces.

It came as no surprise, that in the wake of the recent killing of Inspector Emmanuel Ashlevi while on duty by armed robbers who invaded the police station at Dome, a suburb in the Greater Accra Region, to free their colleagues who were held by the station awaiting trial, the religious unit of the Ghana Police Service has taken to the organization of prayer sessions for divine intervention.

Large scale «boots on the ground» intervention is off the table for a host of legal, fiscal and political reasons, and even the notion of arming the rebels is a tactic that has sparked widespread condemnation.

According to Mr Yamoah Ponko, who is also the Municipal Chief Executive for Ejisu - Juaben in the Ashanti Region, he was personally present at the Golden Tulip Hotel when the armed men stormed the hotel in late 2008 and it took the intervention of persons close by to foil the plot.

The two women were at Asafo in Kumasi, and but for timely intervention of an armed police patrol team, would have been lynched.

Since British intervention in Afghanistan began, the Conservatives have criticised the poor pay and equipment for her Majesty's armed forces in strong terms as a breach of the nation's covenant with our troops.

Widely hailed as a «breakthrough» in HIV prevention by public health officials, the studies — one of which dropped its placebo arm today because of the convincing effects of the intervention — add powerful new tools to derail transmission of the virus in the population that accounts for most of the 34 million infections in the world.

In compliance with the approval, the new fixed - dose combination was administered in the intervention arm for a period of 12 weeks, whereas treatment in the comparator arm could last up to 48 weeks, depending on response to the treatment.

Methods: From an outpatient clinic, we recruited 28 overweight participants with type 2 diabetes for a 16 - week single - arm pilot diet intervention trial.

Interventions for Children Affected by Armed Conflict: a Systematic Review of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Low - and Middle - Income Countries.

Gunn and two other hearing witnesses — retired Navy Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn of the Center for Naval Analyses Advisory Board and Sharon Burke, vice president of the Center for a New American Security — said climate change could put a strain on the U.S. armed forces, pushing them into more military interventions and humanitarian missions.

Bush disclosed that his reasons for not sending an armed intervention to Darfur was that NGOs more intimately aware of the region and its issues strongly urged him not to invade, given the backdrop of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Houston, Texas About Blog The Foreign Policy Alliance works to build support across the political spectrum for a U.S. foreign policy that emphasizes diplomacy, law, and cooperation, rather than costly and counterproductive armed intervention that needlessly puts U.S. military personnel and innocent civilians in harm's way.

You will head back to work armed with immediately applicable clinical interventions and a framework for the different interventions you may already be using.

The RCT study design with an active comparison group (controlling for positive adult instructor and group activity) and comparable groups at baseline provides a high level of confidence that the improvements seen in the MBSR arm are due specifically to the mindfulness aspects of the intervention, as opposed to baseline differences and / or other nonspecific intervention effects.

Methods and analysis This paper presents the protocol for a 3 - arm multicentre randomised controlled trial (RCT) to test the efficacy and cost - effectiveness of the combined internet - based self - help intervention Take Care of You (TCOY) to reduce alcohol misuse and depression symptoms in comparison with a waiting list control group and a comparable intervention focusing on problematic alcohol use only.

The sample size was calculated twice: originally based on the expected nurse staffing for the intervention arm (n = 14) and then based on the finalised staffing (n = 18).

Subgroup analyses: We will examine whether there is evidence that the intervention effect is modified for subgroups within the trial participants using tests of interaction between intervention and child and family factors as follows: parity (first - born vs other), antenatal risks (2 vs 3 or more risk factors at screening), maternal mental health at baseline (high vs low score) 18, 62, 63 and self - efficacy at baseline (poor vs normal mastery) 35 using the regression models described above with additional terms for interaction between subgroup and trial arm.

Third, most of the self - report instruments show good psychometric properties, but only a few have been validated in the context of online assessments, for example, the TLFB.42 Finally, the expected high attrition rates in study arms 1 and 2 during the 6 weeks of the interventions will be a major limitation of this study.

This two - arm parallel group feasibility randomised controlled trial will determine whether a fully powered efficacy trial is achievable by examining the feasibility of recruitment, acceptability and potential benefits of a cognitive - behavioural therapy (CBT)- based intervention for fatigue among in - centre haemodialysis patients.

Results for the CARE Index suggest that women in the intervention arm were significantly more sensitive to their babies (p = 0.04), who were significantly more cooperative (p = 0.02)(table 3).

Methods: This study is a two - arm, parallel group, researcher - blind, randomized controlled trial, to test the clinical effectiveness and cost - effectiveness of a parenting intervention, Video Feedback Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP - SD) for parents of young children (12 — 36 months) at risk of behavioural dintervention, Video Feedback Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP - SD) for parents of young children (12 — 36 months) at risk of behavioural dIntervention to Promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP - SD) for parents of young children (12 — 36 months) at risk of behavioural difficulties.

A multicentre randomised controlled trial with two arms of intervention: (active treatment) a parent and family program (BEST YMH) versus a (control treatment) supportive counselling condition designed to mirror treatment as usual for families (TAU).

PACT was a two - arm single - blind randomised controlled trial comparing a parent - mediated, communication focussed intervention with treatment as usual; at the original recruitment, children were between 2 and 4 years 11 months and met criteria for «core autism» (Green et al. 2010).

Different teams of therapists delivered the two interventions in each CAMH service, and the SHIFT family therapists were prohibited (wherever possible) from treating participants in the TAU arm for the duration of the trial.

The allocation ratio is 2:1 (IYPB: UC), as it is important for the municipalities to have enough families in the IYPB intervention arm to start the groups.