Sentence examples for to interdict it from inspiring English sources

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.

Now aware of the approach of the large Japanese reinforcement convoy, the U.S. desperately sought some way to interdict the convoy before it could reach Guadalcanal.

The agreement stipulates that the United States would work to interdict weapons with its NATO partners, expanding significantly the responsibility to keep Hamas disarmed.

These orders were countermanded in favor of strikes from Admiral Marc Mitscher's aircraft carriers, but as a contingency the battleships together with seven cruisers and twenty one destroyers were sent to interdict the Japanese force before it could reach the vulnerable transports and landing craft.

It falsely assured lawmakers that agents always tried to interdict illegally purchased guns; the department recently withdrew it, saying its drafters had not known that the line was incorrect, because officials based in Arizona had said at the time that there had been no gunwalking in the case.

It also promised to interdict ships carrying arms in the Mediterranean.

"It is not unprecedented to interdict migrants attempting to enter the United States illegally," said Philip Reeker, a State Department spokesman.

Law enforcement officials have told me in the past that it's nearly impossible to interdict all drug shipments inbound to US ports.

"It was an attempt to interdict the enemy's rear area, to stop the flow of supplies and reinforcements, to establish a redoubt in the enemy's rear and disrupt his lines".

It would be helpful if he could use this occasion to get the United Nations Security Council to authorize all of its members to interdict the illicit unannounced movement of any and all nuclear goods and technology useful to making nuclear weapons or nuclear-weapons-capable delivery systems (read long-range missiles or space launch vehicles).

The French Navy consequently stepped up its efforts to interdict American trade with Britain.