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

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

A Border Patrol boat sat in the river observing the people but never attempting to interdict, question them or try to block them from coming.

From Washington Times • Dec. 19, 2023

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

After putting his own interpretation upon the Gospel, he is to lay under an interdict all whom his own fire-new formula—for a formula he must still have—excludes.

From Letters to the Clergy On The Lord's Prayer and the Church by Ruskin, John