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

Schiff said the country needs to “get control of the border” with more personnel and technology to interdict people and drugs.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024

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

Meanwhile, a Border Patrol boat sat in the river “passively observing” the stream of people but never attempting to deter or interdict them before they reached the riverbank.

From Washington Times • Nov. 30, 2023

The Capuchins, the Theatins, and the Jesuits, obeyed the interdict, which was disregarded by the rest of the Venetian clergy as it was by the people.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois