In the 1870s British missionaries moved into Malawi, the place of origin of the Indian Ocean Islamic slave trade, in an attempt to interdict it at its very source.
But in English, infinitives like "to go" and future-tense forms like "will go" are two words, not one, and there is not the slightest reason to interdict adverbs from the position between them.
The myth originated centuries ago in a thick-witted analogy to Latin, in which it is impossible to split an infinitive because it consists of a single word, like dicere, "to say". But in English, infinitives like "to go" and future-tense forms like "will go" are two words, not one, and there is not the slightest reason to interdict adverbs from the position between them.
But the Japanese could have used submarines based in Midway to interdict supplies from the West Coast.
There is not the slightest reason to interdict an adverb from the position before the main verb, and great writers in English have placed it there for centuries.
Indian forces could capture Pakistani posts, maybe even seize a few kilometres of territory, which would help it interdict militants trying to cross the line.
It would interdict elementary and middle school teachers from discussing homosexuality.
It interdicts much of what leaves Iraq by sea, but the land borders are fairly porous, especially for products that are not exactly going to supply the secret wealth Iraq would need to develop weapons of mass destruction.
A group of European countries deploys ships and narcotics officers to interdict boats carrying drugs from West Africa to Europe.
The maneuvers will be held under the banner of the Proliferation Security Initiative, a program intended to interdict seaborne illicit cargoes from an unidentified country.
The fall of Malta had important ramifications for the defence of what remained of Byzantine Sicily: with Reggio in Calabria and now Malta in their hands, the Muslims completed their encirclement of the island, and could easily interdict any aid sent from the east.
