Example sentences for: interdiction

How can you use “interdiction” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The interdiction is meaningless for English grammar (or style), having been carried over from Latin, where a preposition must accompany the word it is connected with syntactically and semantically; like the caveat concerning split infinitives, which cannot be split in Latin because, as in most other Indo-European languages, they are single words, unsplittable nuclei, unlike the atom,

  • In any event, Clinton is now reversing the interdiction cuts.

  • Even if the feat could be pulled off under laboratory conditions, real-world attackers would load their missiles with decoy warheads to foil or complicate interdiction.

  • The term taboo in linguistics means, simply, `proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable' [RHD2] , but Jay prefers the narrow, somewhat archaic, anthropologist's definition that focuses on “supernatural” and “ritualistic” interdiction.

  • When Brokaw asked Bush whether he would be more aggressive in enforcing existing laws against possession of marijuana, Bush said he favored interdiction and sending the message to kids, "Don't be usin' drugs."


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