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
The White House would not specify the mode of transportation or whether the U.S. or other nations would attempt to interdict the shipments to Russia.
From Seattle Times
The plan calls for increased border security, more training to improve accountability procedures and improved efforts to deter and interdict weapons trafficking.
From Seattle Times
During the Vietnam war, he was assigned to the patrol boats that policed the Mekong Delta to interdict Viet Cong smuggling, rescue downed pilots or insert American special forces into disputed territory.
From Washington Times
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