interdict

Example Sentences

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It’s easier to interdict and harder to preserve the logistics that support troops at the front.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025

Schiff said the country needs to “get control of the border” with more personnel and technology to interdict people and drugs.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024

He later explained that he was using a definition employed by the Border Patrol that defines “operational control” as “the ability to detect, respond and interdict border penetrations in areas deemed as high priority.”

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024

Meanwhile, a Border Patrol boat sat in the river “passively observing” the stream of people but never attempting to deter or interdict them before they reached the riverbank.

From Washington Times • Nov. 30, 2023

He was authorized to command the aid of the secular arm, to excommunicate protectors of heresy, and to lay interdict on whole districts.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles