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By releasing details about the vulnerabilities and evasion tactics found on board dark fleet tankers, Coast Guard officials hope that other countries will be encouraged to step up efforts to interdict them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

The notion that America can interdict China’s oil supply and impair its access to crude is “stupid, stupid, stupid,” Papic emphasizes.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026

By contrast, a blockade allows US warships to loiter safely, far offshore in the waters of the Gulf of Oman, track vessels emerging from Iranian ports and interdict them at will.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

He said U.S. forces would interdict vessels and clear potential mines, while also signaling a readiness to escalate militarily if needed.

From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2026

Joy reigned in Toulouse when the count returned, bringing with him the removal of the interdict and the promise of a speedy settlement of the troubles.

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

Environmental and community groups have sued companies including Shell in recent months, winning temporary interdicts that caused searches to be called off.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2022

Thus chiefs, with family trees which reached backward to the gods, were in a far better position to make good their arbitrary interdicts than mere ordinary mortals, who hardly remembered their grandfathers.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Sir James George Frazer

They declared interdicts and the cessation of divine services.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 by Emma Helen Blair

The bargain had not been struck without great agitation, interdicts on the town, and outcries from laymen and ecclesiastics alike.

From The Story of Rouen by Sir Theodore Andrea Cook

Both France and England were laid under interdicts on account of the misdoings of Philip Augustus and John; both kings were forced to submission.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

"The interdicted vessel, M/T Sophia, was operating in international waters and conducting illicit activities in the Caribbean Sea. The US Coast Guard is escorting M/T Sophia to the U.S. for final disposition."

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2026

Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez voiced defiance in comments at a public event in Caracas broadcast Saturday on state TV -- although he made no mention of the interdicted ship.

From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 2025

The threat has left tankers stuck off the coast of Venezuela, with shipping data showing some vessels making U-turns rather than risk being interdicted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

On March 1, Lebanon’s Finance Ministry announced it interdicted a suitcase with $2.5 million from someone arriving at Beirut airport — presumably a cash infusion for the group.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025

It was but fifteen minutes after that we approached the wharves of our interdicted city.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Although China's ability to sever undersea communications cables, cyber attacks and interdicting maritime trade are the primary risk for Australia, "the direct strike threat is real and growing", the report said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026

Given the difficulties in interdicting components, U.S. officials say they are also trying to starve Tehran of funds by going after buyers and shippers of Iranian oil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

Border Patrol said Operation Return to Sender “focused on interdicting those who have broken U.S. federal law, trafficking of dangerous substances, non-citizen criminals, and disrupting the transportation routes used by Transnational Criminal Organizations.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025

He ended his hunger strike after President Bill Clinton agreed to grant would-be refugees asylum hearings rather than interdicting them at sea and returning them immediately to their violence-wracked country.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2023

We build upon a rock when interdicting plagiarism; but on sand when we make that term inclose author-theft and author-borrowing.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. by Various