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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

The Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has law-enforcement authority to interdict ships in international waters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 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

Nothing could have more contributed to the extent of affiliation than the exemption which the Templars enjoyed from the effects of interdict.

From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley

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

When Jan interdicts your going out he has only your welfare at heart.

From Verner's Pride by Mrs. Henry Wood

Is it to be found in the letter or the spirit of the second commandment, which interdicts the making of graven images of any pattern in earth or heaven?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various

Just as property," he writes, "gave rise to the action for revendication, so possession—the jus possessionis—was the cause of possessory interdicts....

From What is Property? by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

He was to raise and remove the censures and interdicts which had been laid, and absolve those who had been excommunicated.

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 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

Earlier this year, the U.S. military showcased its ability to track down tankers anywhere in the world, interdicting vessels connected to Venezuela in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 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

Against this practice, the moment it begins to assume any character of responsibility or permanence, statutes innumerable have been aimed, and clauses strictly interdicting it have of late been incorporated into several State constitutions.

From Monopolies and the People by Charles Whiting Baker