interdict

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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

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

He donated 500 acres of open land in Riverside County to a sanctuary for donkeys and gave $5 million to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society to purchase a ship used to interdict in whaling operations.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2023

Iran through its state media did not acknowledge any new plans to interdict vessels in the strait.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 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