The sandstorm in Baghdad and yesterday's hard-fought battles were also on the news, with Iraqis describing them as "heavenly intervention."

At this point, the President's aides are praying for heavenly intervention in the shape of a Clinton debate gaffe or smoking gun out of his past.

But with some unexpected heavenly intervention, they begin performing wondrous feats.

Two new series are confident that goodness will survive, though that survival may call for heavenly intervention.

Cucuphas is then roasted alive after being covered in vinegar and pepper, though heavenly intervention saved him from death and injury.

By means of heavenly intervention, the prefect Maximianus was killed when his carriage caught on fire.

He credited his safety to heavenly intervention.

"The woman's in profound need of heavenly intervention," Shirley said forcefully.

St. Elmo's Fire has long served as an omen of heavenly intervention to sailors.

Gormley needs no special effects to create his aura of heavenly intervention, relying instead on ambiguous incidents and secondhand testimony.