Sentence examples for interdict against from inspiring English sources

The Pope, nevertheless, excommunicated him in 1320, accusing the Visconti of heresy and witchcraft, and declared an interdict against the city.

Julius, having in the meantime issued an interdict against Venice that excommunicated every citizen of the Republic, invaded the Romagna and seized Ravenna with the assistance of Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara.

Nevertheless, by 25 April 1309, Pope Clement V was satisfied that the difficulties between the King and his magnates had been settled, and agreed to lift the interdict against Gaveston.

Although they were devout Catholics, de Hauteclocque and Thérèse subscribed to Action Française, the journal of a far-right political organisation of the same name, despite a papal interdict against it, and continued to do so even after Thérèse was refused absolution.

Following the defeat of the communist Tet offensive in January and February, in late April two Australian infantry battalions the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the Royal Australian Regiment (RAR)—with supporting arms, were again deployed from their base at Nui Dat in Phuoc Tuy Province to positions astride infiltration routes leading to Saigon to interdict renewed movement against the capital.

1 ATF was subsequently deployed astride infiltration routes leading to Saigon in order to interdict communist movement against the capital as part of Operation Coburg during the 1968 Tet Offensive and later during the Battle of Coral Balmoral in May and June 1968.

Radley Balko, a reporter for the Washington Post who last year published a book titled "Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces," points out that much of this new gear has ended up being used not to interdict terrorists or drug kingpins but against low-level miscreants and suspects.

From there, he warned, they could "threaten the Panama Canal, interdict our vital Caribbean sea lanes, and, ultimately, move against Mexico".

Acquiring the titles of imperial vicar (representative of the empire) and signore (lord) of Milan, the Visconti extended their sovereignty over many north Italian cities, arousing the opposition of Pope John XXII, who placed Milan under interdict and went so far as to preach a crusade against the Visconti.

Should the clergy protest against royal divestment, threatening the king with excommunication or interdict, the king should proceed as a physician applies his lancet to an infected boil.

The government came down on the side of the Freemasons and against the church, ordering Dom Vital to rescind the interdict, which he refused.