interdict

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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

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

The interdict differed from excommunication in being less sweeping in its condemnatory character, and also in being applied to towns, provinces, or countries rather than to individuals.

From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin