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At first, the cost was prohibitive.
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As well as isolation, problems included often rugged terrain, the prohibitive cost of transport, cattle ticks and poison plants.
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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.
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'gombeen' behaviour will become unprofitable, and eventually legally prohibitive.
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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.
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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.
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Stationary fuel-cell power generation remains cost prohibitive to all but the most isolated or ecologically minded.
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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.
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The committee would like to thank their patrons without whose support the cost of publishing the annual magazine would be prohibitive.
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The cost of acquiring new land to expand had proved prohibitive and the parochial church council had no alternative but to close.
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The only solution now would be to dial up ISPs overseas but the cost of international calls makes this prohibitive.
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Given the prohibitive price of truffles, this is a somewhat academic entry.
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The bank may reboot its bond-buying program, a boon for debt-strapped Eurozone countries squeezed by prohibitively high funding costs.
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However, the costs of the necessary hardware and software make it prohibitive, at least in the near future.
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Poison pills are designed to make it prohibitively expensive for a predator to take over a company.
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ITVS has supported a handful of nondocumentary films in the past, but has largely found the cost of feature-length work prohibitive.
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But the building costs are prohibitive, so most people will need an alternative.
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That is a horribly prohibitive price but there is much evidence to justify its meanness.
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For the many this is justifiable: gross violations of human rights make ethical demands upon us which cannot be overridden by prohibitive law.
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The insurance on the plane was almost prohibitive and finding an airport and hangar for the bird was even more so.
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Home improvement stores in the U.S. have prospered in a country with a vast middle class where the incremental cost of paying someone else to do one's handiwork is prohibitive.
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A word of caution is necessary with regard to prototyping - prototyping everything that is unknown or fuzzy can be impossible or prohibitively expensive.
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He did back limited restrictions so long as they didn't have an intended prohibitive effect on individuals.
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It would be prohibitively expensive to haul away the material, they say, and there are no waste sites in the area.
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Had she therefore known that I was the prospective buyer, she may not have chosen to sell the bar to me, or she could have significantly increased her asking price to make it prohibitive for me to make the purchase.
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Today, of course, ivory is hard to find and almost prohibitively expensive.
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This will make the restrictions on movements somewhat less prohibitive.
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Such is the rarity of family houses for sale in some areas that their prices are prohibitive.
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Those medicines that are available are prohibitively expensive.
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Starks remains at the top of the team's list, but his asking price is prohibitive.
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Its portfolio of big fields in Africa has long been coveted by larger rivals but its share price was seen as prohibitively high.
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That leaves nearly a third of all old tires to be landfilled, stockpiled (due to landfill restrictions or prohibitive disposal costs), or illegally dumped.
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However, many companies find the cost of planning and implementation prohibitive.
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Unfortunately, recoating the entire fort with lime, a historically accurate solution, would be prohibitively expensive at this time.
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The costs of treatment or even testing for the disease is seen as prohibitive in such impoverished areas.
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To the north the route to the summit on which pre-war Everest expeditions pinned their hopes looked in its upper reaches prohibitively steep.
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Indeed, in the case of certain drugs, the argument that the harms caused are not so great and the restrictions unduly limiting on lifestyle choices have made the prohibitive laws controversial and widely ignored.
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The cost of car travel becomes prohibitive with the new charges and the cost in time and inconvenience because of the poor public transport system is unreasonable.
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Compound interest is no longer commonly thought to be usurious or to involve prohibitively complex calculations.
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Belize is relatively well off for a third world country; the cost of a drink is not prohibitive for most, so they are not that motivated to use the pasteurizer.
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Boronia notes are rarely found in mass-market perfumes because of its prohibitive cost; but also because it is susceptive to much adulteration, and the world production is extremely limited Arctander mentiones under 1 metric tone per year but that was quite some time ago - I don't know if the production has gone up or down since than.
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Lack of availability of imported produce, coupled with prohibitive prices, dictate that cooks use what is available locally.
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The scarcity of pieces coupled with their frequently prohibitive prices means that if you're not already a proud owner or in line for an inheritance, you will probably never get your hands on any.
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Incineration has been ruled out as it is too expensive and the regulatory issues involved too prohibitive.
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Prices of scores were prohibitive -- and though in such works as the Brahms symphonies, for instance, the 'concertmaster's' part should be studied from score, in its relation to the rest of the _partitura_ -- often, merely to obtain a first violin part, I had to acquire the entire set of strings.
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Like unpaid internships, the cost of most courses makes them prohibitive for many people.
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This horse will start at prohibitive odds for the race and though he should win without too much fuss he is not one to risk the housekeeping on.
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Having opened at the prohibitive odds of 4/6 she was expected to enjoy a fairly comfortable success.
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Ticket prices are prohibitive for many, but this is only the beginning.
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Car insurance can be prohibitively expensive for young drivers.
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The Sydney-based production company was willing to dub episodes from the masters, but only at a prohibitive cost.
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We sold it because French tax law was very prohibitive concerning foreign inheritors.
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The other problem is that the cost of domestic wind turbines is still prohibitive.
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The infamous wallpaper tax, introduced in England in 1712, did not take effect here until 1797 when it caused the already prohibitive price to double.
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DAB radios used to be prohibitively expensive but this one is affordable and looks fantastic.
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However Haines says that the processor count is unlikely to grow since the overheads become prohibitive.
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Buying new glass and having it cut to size can be prohibitively expensive for the home tank builder.
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The cost of land in Tokyo is prohibitive.
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What no science fiction writer before the moonshot anticipated was that the Space Race would start out as a contest between two military powers for ascendancy in the 'high ground' of outer space, which then devolved into a prestige project, whose prohibitive costs were bourn for such imponderable goals such as national bragging rights.
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This path of development would be prohibitive without continued or increased public expenditures.
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Many techniques that imitate nature - collectively known as biomimetic technologies - are prohibitively expensive.
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And that this is reinforced by tax laws that make it prohibitive.
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The cost of private treatment can be prohibitive.
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If chiropractic care were as dangerous as he would have us believe, malpractice premium costs would make practice prohibitive.
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Mechanical control is popular and effective but call be cost prohibitive and may damage environmentally sensitive areas.
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Until earlier this year, Istanbul was the clear if not prohibitive favourite.
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According to a diocesan official, the cost of installing new bronze bells has become prohibitive.
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However, with costs ranging from $77 to $312 for a single-use tamponade, they are prohibitively expensive for widespread use in developing countries.
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If crude oil really does run out or becomes prohibitively expensive to get, this avenue is available, and additional research and technological improvements need to be actively pursued.
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Passenger Focus says that the benefits of regular departures are limited because of the prohibitive cost of fully flexible tickets.
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I try to do some exercises for my back before the temperature becomes too prohibitive.
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Many shooters think ivory is the ultimate dressing for a fine gun, but the cost is often prohibitive.
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And the transport costs are prohibitive.
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Who now could deny that it would be folly to oppose the resources of ordinary warfare to those of what might be called prohibitive warfare.
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The over Rs 3 crore it takes per day to sustain our troops in Siachen is not prohibitive.
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It is also believed to be positioning itself for the impending relaxation of Australia's prohibitive cross-ownership rules, which would allow it to enhance its presence there.
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This measure allows for more flexibility in the use of housing funds that sit idle because of prohibitive restrictions.
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There is another big obstacle to making electric cars mainstream: their prohibitive cost.
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I think that you'll find the word 'prohibitive' is an understatement.
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Every transit network has its fare beaters, the riders who view payment as either optional or prohibitively expensive.
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According to Foley, the casino's online status has allowed the company to sidestep the Irish government's prohibitive anti-casino legislation.
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Despite the prohibitive price tag, there is no sign of a downturn at the top end of the property market with only 12 of the 27 houses still unsold.
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It remains tight-lipped about how much the car would cost in the real world, mainly because it will be prohibitively expensive.
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There were prohibitive laws stifling the development of Mozambique's indigenous manufacturing industry.
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But only at a prohibitive price for a player who has yet to prove himself on the world stage.
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It turns out, when we asked you what you think, that our permissive society is fast becoming the prohibitive society.
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The costs are so prohibitive for a wired plant, that no overbuilder can ever profit.
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The other is that normal cigarettes have become prohibitively expensive.
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Although the cost of such an exclusive safari might seem prohibitive, it is worth pointing out that everything - from wine, beer and spirits to the daily laundry service - is inclusive.
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If Hochtief's effort is successful, ACS would be forced to buy out minority shareholders in Leighton Holdings, a move that could cost more than € 3 billion ($4.1 billion) and make a deal prohibitively expensive for ACS.
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Doing all this work in-house would be prohibitively expensive.
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Obviously, if the alternative offer had involved a considerably or prohibitively higher price, that would tell against the seller.
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That means new cards must be bought, but the cost is prohibitive for many.
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Its portfolio of big fields in Africa has long been coveted by larger rivals but its share price was seen as prohibitively high.
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The reproducibility of land was physically improbable and entailed prohibitively high marginal costs in all but exceptional circumstances.
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Perfect short-run marginal cost pricing in such a situation would have prohibitive administrative costs and might not achieve its aims because consumers would not have time to understand and react to the continually varying prices.
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The choreographer feels high ticket prices are prohibitive to most people and make the arts appear elitist.
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Gone are the days when game was seen as elitist because of prohibitive prices.
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The article goes on to say one option is to boost the force level by up to 50,000 even though any increase greater than 20 - 30,000 would be "prohibitive" - but it won't deter the Pentagon, on administration orders, from extending tours of duty even longer for forces now there and calling up thousands of reservists and greatly extended National Guard units to get into this quagmire even though it's recognized their presence will only make things worse as well as place an unfair burden on those called up, who've served before, and their families.
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This restriction may be prohibitive in many applications.
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Federal funding will be used primarily to provide incentives to industry to undertake high-priority technology-development activities that have not attracted private-sector investment because of high technical risk, prohibitive costs, long pay-back horizons, or anticipated returns that are not appropriable to individual firms or distinct industrial sectors.
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But he was under exclusive contract to Universal, and they wanted a prohibitive amount of money to loan him out.
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Meat and butter were prohibitively expensive.
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For low-income families, children's safety equipment can be prohibitively expensive .
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In the tropics, the process could be labour-intensive without being prohibitively expensive.
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Finally, a newly restrictive planning regime for one-off housing is particularly prohibitive towards non-locals.
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The cost of land in Tokyo is prohibitive.
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The use of a concrete post and beam frame with brick or adobe infill is a reasonable compromise when wood frame construction is not possible, as in Mexico where it would be prohibitively expensive and where there is no fire-fighting infrastructure to protect wooden buildings.
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No company continues with its practices if bad publicity occurs, or prohibitive laws or tax regimes are enacted, or shareholders sell up, or investors say stop.
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As late as 1971 there was a prohibitive law making the opening of supermarkets and hypermarkets dependent on the issue of three different types of licence and the approval of two distinct levels of government.
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So the tough advice is to move if you cannot get insurance or the premiums are prohibitive.
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The city reserves the right to cancel the arena project, which is to be financed jointly by the city and the province, should a detailed cost study make the price tag prohibitive.
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Car insurance can be prohibitively expensive for young drivers.
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Application of sham trials to more complex areas would be more difficult, and it would be mostly prohibitive with respect to oncological surgery.
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Beyond that, the amount of energy required becomes too prohibitive.
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The intent, however, was to make the taxes and terms prohibitive to all non-medical use.
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In fact, I can't quite make up mind about which city do I like more, but yeah, the prohibitive cost of having a roof over your head is a total downer.
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The trouble was that upsizing locally, even on a small scale, would be prohibitively expensive.
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To the north the route to the summit on which pre-war Everest expeditions pinned their hopes looked in its upper reaches prohibitively steep.
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The cost to have an exterminator catch a few rodents should not be prohibitive.
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I would have liked to have had a longer deal but the get out clauses were prohibitive.
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The move would remove the prohibitive cost from some poorer nations and avoid any conflicts from federations facing the prospect of sanctioning their star athletes.
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the price was prohibitive
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The number of teenage motorists on Britain's roads is shrinking as the cost of owning a car becomes prohibitive.
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But while fluorinated and siloxane based stabilisers have been very successful, they are also prohibitively expensive for commercial applications.
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Real - estate prices in downtown Manhattan looked prohibitively expensive.
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Mr Parlon said the requirement in the Department of Agriculture protocol that a farmer who purchases an animal is prevented from selling any animal from his holding for a period of 20 days is extremely prohibitive.
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We eventually agreed that the size of the hut was prohibitive to display.
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The cost of reaching these reserves may yet prove prohibitive.
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Within these prohibitive technical limitations, the performer is asked to make rapid scalic runs and, in one place, semiquaver leaps, and the piece ends with a double glissando.
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Proper gallery or exhibition space is expensive to hire, prohibitively so for the average professional artist.
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The cost of remaining the world's predominant power is not prohibitive.
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Dr Bull issues dire warnings about the use of Syrup of Poppies, but at half-a-crown the cost of this book doubtless prohibitive to the very people who could have done with reading it, if they could read that is.
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The cost of private treatment can be prohibitive.
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Aerodynamic limitations have been avoided to a slight degree at almost prohibitive cost and with consequent contamination.
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Meat and butter were prohibitively expensive.
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Additionally, conventional medical treatment may be financially prohibitive, especially for those lacking insurance.
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Many techniques that imitate nature - collectively known as biomimetic technologies - are prohibitively expensive.
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For instance, the Coase theorem admits that the market will fail if transaction costs are prohibitively high.
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Its portfolio of big fields in Africa has long been coveted by larger rivals but its share price was seen as prohibitively high.
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To seek such an unachievable goal would be prohibitively expensive.
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If an eavesdropper captures messages moving through the network, the encryption makes it impossible (or at least prohibitively expensive) to convert the data to usable plain text.
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Across the country, the rural areas the Amish inhabit are rapidly becoming exurbs, and what was once farmland is being sold to make way for subdivisions and Wal-Marts -- making raw land, even when it is available, prohibitively expensive.
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Naturally, everyone liked the idea of a fighter but prices were more than prohibitive and, at the best, only one additional member besides the pilot could be taken aloft.
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The cost of private treatment can be prohibitive.
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The resources needed would be huge and even then the cost factor would prove prohibitive.
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Yet it is a tragic irony that despite a plethora of prohibitive laws and international conventions, this abominable child labor system has been thriving uninhibited.
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Insulation is a meaningful answer for new construction but for existing buildings this is quite limited in applicability since much that could be imagined turns out to be quite cost prohibitive.
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Proper gallery or exhibition space is expensive to hire, prohibitively so for the average professional artist.
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For example, for automotive software, much of the complexity comes from building fault-tolerance into the software because correcting hardware problems introduced in design or manufacture is prohibitively expense.
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The other is that normal cigarettes have become prohibitively expensive.
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it is prohibitively expensive
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Giving every patient an annual anti - flu injection would be prohibitively expensive.
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It is possible to use our cellular phone to link to the Internet but I fear the charges might be prohibitive.
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Hard drugs are a significant problem in our society; changes in law are required to help reduce these problems, not increased prohibitive measures.
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In doing that, he lifted himself above all who supported the infringements upon and eradication of liberty, including the Democratic Party, who later signed-off on an even more prohibitive version of the surveillance bill in their rush to re-fund the war.
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A price tag of around 20m was always going to prove prohibitive for a 31-year-old whose game is based on pace.
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If you feel the cost is too prohibitive, then get a group of people together and share vanes.
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It would be prohibitively expensive to chop that ice up and ship it to needy regions.
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Yet to provide sufficiently reliable valuations, the process would become prohibitively expensive.
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While reaching the 56.2 miles a gallon target would be cost-prohibitive today, the cost could come down in the future as fuel-saving technology is in greater demand.
GM Calls Fuel Regime 'Tough'
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But, given that penguins are relatively rare birds, that turned out to be prohibitively expensive.
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Proper gallery or exhibition space is expensive to hire, prohibitively so for the average professional artist.
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No longer are the costs of color reproduction prohibitive.
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The club probably would like to have Tillman back, as long as the price isn't prohibitive.
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If Hochtief's effort is successful, ACS would be forced to buy out minority shareholders in Leighton Holdings Ltd., a move that could cost more than € 3 billion (US$4. 15 billion) and make a deal prohibitively expensive for ACS.
Hochtief Moves to Thwart ACS Offer
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The difference in caps is more than aesthetic, economics is a very large consideration - cork is becoming cost prohibitive, about $.75 each.
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He wished to provide golf and other sporting facilities which families could use and enjoy without the cost being prohibitive.
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They say the charges are prohibitive, and so are parking instead on a different site behind the Railway Institute gymnasium.
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Many analysts, however, expect Wu to scrap his mega-hotel ambitions if such prohibitive restrictions are imposed.
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Those medicines that are available are prohibitively expensive.
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It was asked on CNN this morning of wone of their guests, who was talking about the regulatory requirements these companies consistently shirk, whether those requirements are "cost prohibitive.
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I submit that a more complete solution to the crisis of access to legal services should fulfil the following conditions: it should increase the pool of legal service providers in order to address the overall shortage of lawyers; is should increase the capacity of legal aid and other entities to provide legal services free of charge; it should ensure access to legal services for people of all income levels, including low and middle income people; it should not be cost-prohibitive from a government viewpoint; and, it should ensure a high quality of legal service as well as competence and integrity among all legal professionals.
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Support for winter sports like the luge and bobsledding are being reduced because it is recognized Taiwan is unlikely to do well - since it has no snow slopes to speak of and training in the US or Europe is prohibitively expensive.
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But the costs are prohibitive for most people.
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The cost of maintaining such huge armies in the field would be prohibitive.
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At first they considered setting up a tea shop, but the costs were prohibitive.
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But the cost may be prohibitive and it is hard to see how such treatment will be available to all.
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