Up to this time, wall paper was made in small squares and laboriously hung,--a fact that made it expensive and accordingly prohibitive to all but the wealthy classes.
When candles were first used here, they were imported from England, but their cost was so high that they were prohibitive save for festive occasions.
From this time Holland began to suffer from the prohibitive system which the Emperor imposed on everything appertaining to the Empire.
The kings who were afraid of our artillery submitted to the prohibitive system which we exacted of them, but their people suffered.
On the other hand, the cost of duplicating a set of water mains or a network of street car tracks is so prohibitive as to render competition undesirable, both from the standpoint of the utility and from the standpoint of the public.
In spite of prohibitive laws, racial intermixture is continuing, and the problem of the mixed blood is becoming more and more acute.
In spite of these prosperous conditions the country made no progress, on account of the prohibitive system which at this time prevailed.
He ordered the vassal republics in Holland and North Italy to place prohibitive duties on English merchandise.
His enlightened views on Free Trade were shown by a commercial treaty with France which took off many prohibitive duties, and much increased the commerce between the two countries (1786).
The prohibitive system of Russia has destroyed all their commercial resources, and now only some hundreds of them, for the most part detained by penury, are to be found in their adopted country, employed in petty retail dealings.
In justification of its prohibitive system, the government alleges the protection and encouragement it owes to native industry.
Thus driven away by the prohibitivesystem of Russia, many nations are seeking to establish markets for their productions elsewhere.
What proves that this prohibitive measure is by no means the result of a savage temper is, that it is enough to pronounce the name of a chief, no matter who, to be welcomed and treated everywhere with unbounded hospitality.
The commercial franchises of the province were suppressed therefore in 1822, the prohibitive system of the imperial customs was introduced, and the payment of all arrears was rigorously exacted.
He was the most ardent partisan both of the prohibitive and of the industrial system; and the feverish development he gave to manufactures does not redeem the distress of agriculture to which he denied his solicitude.
Owing to the freedom of its port, the town of Odessa, of course, suffers less from the disastrous effects of this prohibitive system, and finds some commercial resources in its own consumption, and in that of its environs.
A law fails to beprohibitive when it receives only indifferent attention from the public for whom it was passed.
Even where the laws have seemed prohibitive enough they have often failed of their purpose because not properly enforced.
The M'Kinley tariff of 1890 slammed the door in Canada's face, for in order to delude the American farmer into believing that protection was in his interest, this tariff imposed high and often prohibitive duties on farm products.
Five years ago it was sought in these pages[1] to discover the cause or causes of the total failure in the United States of prohibitive legislation.
Whence it followed that there was no demand for prohibitive liquor laws, and therefore only failure had resulted from attempting to enforce them.
Grain was not allowed to flow from parish to parish, but was held in check by prohibitive tariffs.
I am glad we did not have a prohibitive notice on that account, besides Schwarmer's hand would not have shown up so plainly.
I was going over to confess that your way was better than mine; or that my appeal needed your prohibitive crutch.
If this is to be the result of what the Revue des Deux Mondes admits to be but a timid step from the prohibitive to the protective system, what prosperity may not be prophesied to Spain from further progress in the same path?
Records), the cost of freight to those places was prohibitive of anything but the most absolute necessities even ten years after the Constitution was adopted.
The prohibitivelegislation extended over a period of more than a century, beginning with the act of South Carolina in 1740.
They demanded that the French market should be restricted to French labor; this is the end of the prohibitive system.
And for this end, restrain byprohibitive duties the entrance of the products of the industry of other nations.
The petitioners assert that foreign labor injures national labor; this is the error of the prohibitive school.
The result is precisely similar when a nation isolates itself by the prohibitive system.
And this will be the ideal ofprohibitive government.
They insisted that foreign labor should be subject to restriction and taxation; these are the means of the prohibitive system.
The assembly attempted at various times to check slave importations by levying prohibitive duties, which were invariably disallowed by the English crown.
From the experience thus far gained there is much reason to think that the voltages applied to underground cables may be very materially increased before a prohibitive cost of insulation is reached.
In other words, the law which had been declared void was substantially reënacted, with the substitution of a prohibitive tax for the clause prohibiting transportation in interstate commerce.
Thereupon Congress practically reënacted it, coupled with a provision for a prohibitive tax on the profits of concerns employing child labor, as part of a revenue act enacted under the constitutional grant of power to lay taxes.
All they had to pay with was an enormous deficit on the Budget, with the prospect of presently losing the Silesian coal-mines and having prohibitive duties placed by the Allies upon their exports.
When Austria wished to ruin Serbia she simply put a prohibitive duty on the import of pigs.
Single-handed, America can not defend itself, except at a prohibitive cost; whereas in copartnership with these others the national defense becomes a virtually negligible matter.
And thirdly, the art of printing had reached a stage when reproductions were no longer so expensive as to be almost prohibitive in price.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prohibitive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
