Stop meddling.

Is this patronizing or meddling in someone else's business?

He actually called me a meddling kid the other day.

You are meddling in the internal affairs of our partner countries.

They said, Had we not forbidden you from meddling in the affairs of anyone?

They said, Had we not forbidden you from meddling in the affairs of anyone?

It is an honour for a man to cease from strife but every fool will be meddling.

It is an honour for a man to cease from strife but every fool will be meddling.

Meanwhile, a State Department spokesperson urged India s authorities to act with appropriate democratic restraint in response to the crisis provoked by Harare s protests. This was an egregious bit of meddling.

Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who is rather sensitive about foreigners meddling in domestic Israeli politics, has been openly and consistently courting congressional Republicans by attacking Obama. And Obama s response?

The British, whose Churchillian nationalism helped them to prevail against Hitler s attacks, never shared this aversion. And their deep pride in Britain s liberal democratic tradition made them suspicious of meddling Brussels bureaucrats.

For Pakistanis, however, Musharraf s martial rule emasculated civil liberties, pressured media whenever he disagreed with editorial content, massively increased the intelligence service s meddling in politics, and papered over the genuine grievances of disenfranchised people.

We required the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission to stop interfering in the domestic affairs of China and meddling in Hong Kong affairs, and demanded an apology from the meeting organizer to the Chinese reporter.

And as a designer, I can't help meddling with this, so I pulled it to bits and sort of did stuff like this, and tried to understand what the individual elements were, but feeling it as I go.

In sum, corporate meddling in politics is bad not just for those members of society who are not corporate shareholders. It also can be expected to reduce shareholder value and retard the development of an economy s corporate sector.

The spokesman indicated that we required the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission to stop interfering in the domestic affairs of China and meddling in Hong Kong affairs, and demanded an apology from the meeting organizer to the Chinese reporter.

Islamist terrorism is a reflection, indeed an extension, of today s wars in the Middle East. And with the meddling of outside powers, those wars are becoming a single regional war  one that is continually morphing, expanding, and becoming increasingly violent.

At first glance, this vision seems entirely reasonable after all, most countries prefer to manage domestic and regional affairs without the meddling of outside powers. But Xi s statement marked a significant departure from China s long standing position on America s presence in the Asia Pacific region.

A lame duck managing director would hamstring the Fund. Already there is a sense that the IMF is reluctant to tell Europe more forcefully how to handle its problem with Greece because the managing director must be careful to avoid meddling in Europe s internal politics.

To preserve the appearance that their meddling is benign, senior military officers probably know that they cannot afford to install another general as president. Instead, they will most likely support cosmetic political reforms, including a new law that formally separates the roles of army commander and head of state.

Sanctions for non compliance must be enforced without political meddling. One of the most important lessons of the Lisbon Agenda is that the so called Open Method of Coordination a harmless peer review procedure without repercussions for non performance is clearly the wrong approach to kick starting national level reforms.

Sound enforcement implies legal tools and resources to pursue and implement an economic policy, along with an institutional design that reduces meddling by vested interests. Consider, for example, the importance of impartial and effective antitrust authorities, or subsidy schemes that are sufficiently well designed to ensure that they truly serve the public interest.

But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war for God commanded me to make haste forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.

But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war for God commanded me to make haste forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.

Then came Russia s fomenting of, and participation in, armed separatists effort to take over parts of eastern Ukraine, which led directly to the downing last month of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 and the death of all 298 people on board. Though likely an accident, it was an accident that happened only because of Russia s duplicitous and lethal meddling.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has embarked on a campaign to force President Barack Obama to set a red line that Iran must not cross, lest it risk unleashing an American military response. Implicit threats of a unilateral Israeli attack, together with conspicuous meddling in the US presidential election campaign, have compounded Netanyahu s effort to twist Obama s arm.

A more coherent strategy would involve cutting off al Shabaab s funding and addressing the grievances such as human rights abuses against Somalis, discrimination against Muslims, foreign meddling in Somalia, and corruption that motivate its recruits. In a bizarre twist, al Shabaab even called on Kenyans to prosecute their leaders for post election bloodletting in 2007 2008.

Technology and economic development are proliferating across Asia and the developing world, while the spread of literacy and political awareness during the past century made national self determination by far the dominant ideology of our age, leading to the end of colonialism. Nationalism continues to produce powerful political antibodies to American and European meddling in other countries internal affairs.

Europe s governments urgently need to undertake a root and branch review of the regulatory environment, especially in those industries that have the greatest impact on the wider economy. And, after six decades of meddling, EU policymakers should step back and consider which restrictions have become harmful or irrelevant, and how better to support the entrepreneurs and industries of the future.

When the Ottoman Empire collapsed at the end of World War I, the great powers of the day, Britain and France, carved out successor states in order to ensure their control over the Middle East s oil, geopolitics, and transit routes to Asia. Their cynicism reflected, for example, in the Sykes Picot Agreement nbsp established a lasting pattern of destructive outside meddling.

In Venezuela, the October 7 presidential election may put an end to Hugo Chávez s 14 years in power, along with his systematic destruction of the economy, media clampdowns, and endless meddling in other countries affairs. In Colombia, peace talks scheduled for October 8 in Norway between President Juan Manuel Santos s government and the FARC guerrillas may bring an end to 40 years of war and bloodshed.

Georgia and Moldova have both been partitioned through the creation of criminal mini states nurtured by the Kremlin and which remain under its military umbrella. Indeed, in the very week that Putin was meddling in Ukraine s presidential election, he was threatening to blockade one of those statelets, Georgia s Abkhazia region, after it had the temerity to vote for a president the Kremlin did not like.

At the end of the day, Bolivia s immediate national interests may be served by Morales s strategic alliance with Cuba and Venezuela. On the other hand, Chávez s unabashed meddling in the Peruvian elections may have so alienated Alan García that he actually becomes a European style social democrat, and López Obrador may deliver on his promises to respect NAFTA, adhere to macro economic orthodoxy, and pursue good relations with the US.

What is needed is a European initiative that is backed by a credible military deterrent, consisting of forces from the EU, Turkey, and Arab countries, to be dispatched under a UN mandate to Lebanon and Gaza. Europe must not only put forward a clear demand for an immediate cease fire and the end to Syrian and Iranian meddling in Lebanon, it must also provide the means to enforce it as well as massive support for Lebanon s reconstruction.