interdict
Example Sentences
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“They are interdicting stuff 40 to 70 kilometers from the front line. Previously, for those effects, you needed to fly manned aircraft.”
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
Precisely because the rationale of propping up a government has evaporated, that of interdicting terrorism has intensified.
From Washington Post
The army is trying to interdict Taliban movement in Helmand province, he added.
From Seattle Times
Unless people interdicted at sea are taken to a safe harbor and given the opportunity for a full and fair consideration of asylum claims, their forced return breaches the principle of nonrefoulement.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
