(n.) To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations.
(n.) To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual.
(n.) A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition.
(n.) A prohibition of the pope, by which the clergy or laymen are restrained from performing, or from attending, divine service, or from administering the offices or enjoying the privileges of the church.
(n.) An order of the court of session, having the like purpose and effect with a writ of injunction out of chancery in England and America.
Example Sentences:
(1) Terrorist groups need to be tackled at root, interdicting flows of weapons and finance, exposing the shallowness of their claims, channelling their followers into democratic politics.
(2) Algorithms for optimal interdiction of the infection network are formulated and their applicability is discussed.
(3) Unless therapy is interdicted, left ventricular failure will ensure as the major cardiac hemodynamic consequence.
(4) This compound is believed to act by interdicting the de novo synthesis of pyrimidines, probably through the formation of allopurinol ribotide.
(5) Vaccination already is recommended for persons recognized to be at increased risk of exposure to virus-containing blood or other body fluids (e.g., infants born to carrier mothers, household or sexual contacts of carriers); however, mass vaccination of adolescents and infants is needed to interdict effectively a majority of all exposures to the hepatitis B virus.
(6) Some of the largest illegal ivory consignments recently interdicted in Asia, involving thousands of tusks, have originated at Togo's port, Lome.
(7) There may also be a case for using special forces of interdiction to destroy the boats before they leave port.” He also said the European Union must put in place a fairer system when dealing with those who made it to Europe.
(8) Accurate perception and evaluation, having been interdicted during childhood, is avoided with the magical hope that thereby one will be acceptable and what is wrong will disappear.
(9) Wildlife traffickers are already shifting illicit transport routes in response to interdiction efforts through countries with weak controls, such as Togo.
(10) It opened with the salvo: "Prohibitionist policies based on eradication, interdiction and criminalisation of consumption simply haven't worked … The revision of US-inspired drug policies is urgent in the light of the rising levels of violence and corruption associated with narcotics."
(11) The Predators can tell us the vehicle type, number of people on the ground, but it can’t identify the person or read a license plate,” said a CBP air interdiction agent who asked not to be named because he is involved in undercover drug investigations.
(12) Thus, at least some and possibly most examples of angina pectoris may be mediated via the coronary chemoreceptor and vagal afferents to the brain, and injury or destruction of this chemoreceptor could interdict the perception of anginal pain.
(13) Accordingly, these data are interpreted as having implications for the establishment of programs and policies which focus on the adolescent male population in order to interdict the high rate of unwed adolescent pregnancy.
(14) Whether US port security or land borders would really prove that much more porous than other countries with stricter gun laws is also open to question, but it is strange this argument is rarely offered as a reason to give up on drug interdiction, or intercepting terrorist bomb threats.
(15) Troops are deployed on the Libyan border to interdict what the authorities believe are terrorist groups bringing in men and equipment.
(16) The first is that we are strengthening the capacities to interdict the illicit drugs but the country partnership programme also has a very strong social component.
(17) When these slow-growth systems are used with nutrient-limited populations, it is found that cellular concentrations of guanosine 5'-diphosphate 3'-diphosphate, the main effector of the stringent response, commence rising above basal levels at tD's longer than 12 h until, at a tD of 60-70 h, the level is reached that causes the interdiction of protein and ribosome synthesis characteristic of the response.
(18) The peroxidation could be blocked by substances which interdict at specific points in the Fenton chemistry: superoxide dismutase, alpha-tocopherol, the iron chelator desferrioxamine, and the xanthine oxidase substrate-analogs allopurinol and oxypurinol.
(19) One of the main planks of the strategy was “improving the ability of Mexico to interdict migrants before they cross into Mexico”.
(20) While their position is by no means unanimous, proponents of drug reform generally base their arguments on several key premises, such as elimination of or reductions in drug trafficking, enforcement, and interdiction expenditures; increased tax revenues from the legal sale of drugs; and reductions in health-care expenses associated with drug treatment.
Sacrament
Definition:
(n.) The oath of allegiance taken by Roman soldiers; hence, a sacred ceremony used to impress an obligation; a solemn oath-taking; an oath.
(n.) The pledge or token of an oath or solemn covenant; a sacred thing; a mystery.
(n.) One of the solemn religious ordinances enjoined by Christ, the head of the Christian church, to be observed by his followers; hence, specifically, the eucharist; the Lord's Supper.
(v. t.) To bind by an oath.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nevertheless, they differed in their motivations for use and their perceptions of its influence in their lives: some employed MDMA as a sacramental adjunct for following specific spiritual paths; others viewed it as aiding their spiritual growth in more general ways.
(2) Only the Putin era tells many such stories: the president taking sacrament on state-run television.
(3) Canon Robinson replied that he believed he was in a "sacramental relationship" with his long-term partner Mark Andrew, adding that it was a reflection of God's desire for humans to be in sexual relationships.
(4) It became one more holy object in the communal sacrament that, thanks to the gods of business, technology, and creativity, TV had become in the early 21st century.
(5) I think the person who said: 'Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament' was right.
(6) But this year, it is a major focus for evangelicals as well as for Roman Catholics.” Cruz, a Tea Party favorite who was elected to the Senate in 2012, once again invoked what he called the Obama administration’s “assault on our religious liberty” – name-checking everything from the supreme court’s Hobby Lobby contraception case to church groups helping the poor, and from abortion to “the sacrament of marriage”.
(7) United by the holy sacrament of marriage, they go off to America to teach.
(8) "For someone who's religious, marriage is a sacrament, and a sacrament is an outward sign of an inward grace," she said.
(9) In church eyes, any sacraments the cardinal had subsequently administered would be illicit.
(10) But the real spiritual argument happens in how her weirdly cut and twisting narratives unfold: a death foretold long before a person's story has even started, as in The Driver's Seat (1970) or The Hothouse by the East River (1973); the interest in how superstition and other forms of false consciousness precipitate evil actions, as in The Bachelors (1960) or The Girls of Slender Means (1963); the way an innocuous-looking catchphrase, like Miss Jean Brodie's famous "crème de la crème", attains a mysteriously sacramental force by dint of a rhythmic repetition, half-gossipy, half-incantatory in intent.
(11) Its hero, Lionel Espy, is a doubting cleric who is far more concerned with the church's social commitments than its sacramental obligations; as a result he is banished from the team-ministry he has created in south London.
(12) Almost all of us are somewhere on a spectrum of interpretation and we switch up and down that spectrum as ... we try to apply scripture to the concrete messiness of living.” Protestants, he added, “do not understand marriage as a sacrament but as a covenant voluntarily entered into by two persons who bind themselves to each other in a series of vows”.
(13) Hence Poussin's insistent structuring (which becomes strikingly experimental in a series of canvases sent to Cardinal Richelieu, the Seven Sacraments : the Dulwich has managed to borrow five of them to display alongside Cullinan's exhibition).
(14) In Vegas I had made a friend who shared my sacramental devotion to marijuana, my dilated obsession with gaming and my ballistic impatience to play GTA IV.
(15) He lends to the observation of nature the sense of something essentially sacramental.
(16) The Supreme Court now has established a legal precendent running contrary to previous lower court cases that has implications for the religious use of peyote, specifically, and for nontraditional use of sacramental drugs, generally.
(17) The monks were more exposed to contagion; obliged by their vocation and by pope's command to help the dyings and to give them sacraments, they were obliged to leave lepers to their fate.
(18) Our church denies women the ability to use modern technology and medicine to control their fertility, even though Pope Francis told us this year that we no longer “need to breed like rabbits.” Our church tells divorced people they have failed as Christians – even if the marriage was abusive or if their spouse was cheating on them – and denies them access to the sacraments.
(19) But before getting overly sanctimonious, journalism is not altogether a sacrament to truth.
(20) This is a dramatisation of the sacramental force of song: it has the power to make present what it represents, to conjure up the inspiration and protection it seeks.