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• At first, the cost was prohibitive. Times, Sunday Times
• As well as isolation, problems included often rugged terrain, the prohibitive cost of transport, cattle ticks and poison plants.
• At least the State of California limits its total liability to a paltry $5K in exchange for a prohibitively expensive premium, that even if a person chose to insure herself against would not pay the bulldozers pushing the debris to one side or the other, as no amount of money makes these liabilities "insurable" to even the most profligage premium payer. Balkinization
• 'gombeen' behaviour will become unprofitable, and eventually legally prohibitive. Irish Blogs
• Your comment about anise being cost prohibitive is true, but what I started doing last year is to go to the pharmacy and buy a syringe (like diabetics use) and squirt proper amount on my bait. Tip of the Day: Add Scent Cheap with Cod Liver Oil
• While sedentary work represents a significantly restricted range of work, this range in itself is not so prohibitively restricted as to negate work capability for substantial gainful activity.
• Stationary fuel-cell power generation remains cost prohibitive to all but the most isolated or ecologically minded.
• Amongst so excitable a people as the Arabs, this game caused quarrels and bloodshed, hence its prohibition: and the theologians, who everywhere and at all times delight in burdening human nature, have extended the command, which is rather admonitory than prohibitive, to all games of chance. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• The committee would like to thank their patrons without whose support the cost of publishing the annual magazine would be prohibitive.
• The cost of acquiring new land to expand had proved prohibitive and the parochial church council had no alternative but to close.