The control group that joined no intervention actually were more luckily to advance in their workplace 20, 30 years later.

未参与干预的对照组,更有可能在二三十年后获得升职。

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The government had been working on the case for several weeks in advance of a likely federal intervention.

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In January, the French intervention halted a southern advance by Islamist militias.

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But the obstruction of such a resolution in the Security Council by Russia and China owes much to their perception that the Libyan intervention has simply presented an opportunity to advance long standing western aims in north Africa.

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