Just as ominously, Serbian irregulars could create a pretext for full-scale Serbian intervention.
But he spoke of "unpredictable consequences" if the deployment turned out to be a prelude to full-scale anti-Serbian intervention.
It's true that a full-scale humanitarian intervention would merely turn the crisis into the status quo and insure that it drags on forever.
A rebel spokesman in Paris said the front did not want the death of any French citizen to serve as an excuse for a full-scale military intervention.
The people of Natalia were - mistakenly - under the impression that Smellekamp's arrival heralded a full-scale intervention by the Netherlands.
Zhukov and most of the Presidium were not, however, eager to see a full-scale intervention in Hungary.
This calls for full-scale intervention, right down the line.
Description: This publication covers U.S. Army action in Korea from the outbreak of war to the full-scale intervention of the Chinese Communists.
That being so, it's likely that the allies could not have saved the insurgents with anything short of full-scale, and endless, intervention.
Georgia condemned the move as an act of aggression aimed at preparing a full-scale intervention.