interdiction

[ UK /ˌɪntədˈɪkʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɪntɝˈdɪkʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity
  2. authoritative prohibition
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How To Use interdiction In A Sentence

  • The interdiction was the first in the Western Caribbean; according to the Coast Guard, submarines are regularly used to move contraband in the Eastern Pacific. ABC News: Top Stories
  • And this is the refusal of carrying out interdiction, which is something the Afghan government can't do, because they don't have the helicopters, the satellites and all the bits and pieces the West does. Wajahat Ali: The Taliban and Extremism in Modern Day Afghanistan and Pakistan -- An Interview with Ahmed Rashid
  • Je pense que cette interdiction et son argumentaire est un vrai retour en arrière. Global Voices in English » Morocco: Bloggers React to the Banning of Magazines
  • This was a manifestation of the allied policy of interdiction in which both heavy bombers of the USAF and the bomb- and rocket-armed carrier fighter-bombers attempted to halt enemy troop and supply movement.
  • APHIS, in turn, has set up an antismuggling unit called the Smuggling, Interdiction and Trade Compliance SITC. The Fruit Hunters
  • Cyber-warfare, to say nothing of armed interdiction, would make that extremely hazardous. Times, Sunday Times
  • Vietnamese anti-aircraft and ground attacks made the B57 vulnerable after a time, it still proved valuable as a light bomber, and in interdiction missions over Laos. Hunter, Russell P. Jr.
  • Based on the study, Smart planned to de-emphasize interdiction to concentrate on the new target systems: “[The aim is to] bring about defeat of the enemy as expeditiously as possible [rather than] allowing him to languish in comparative quiescence while we expand our efforts beating up supply routes.” Between War and Peace
  • The concentrated battleground of the drug war has been on domestic soil, with America's so-called interdiction efforts spreading the fight across the world, from poppy-rich Afghanistan to the coca-nurturing Andes to the most brutal battlefield of them all, Mexico, which saw more than 5,600 drug-related murders last year, including several that involved publicly displayed decapitations AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • He helped found the counterdrug task force, a department within the National Guard responsible for supporting federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in operations for drug interdiction and eradication. Obituaries: Francis J. Bray; M. Imogene Dove; Thomas R. Gunlock; Joseph S. Hull; Elsie Hunt; nancy Keith; Seth H. Lourie
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