One who favors prohibitory duties on foreign goods in commerce; a protectionist.
The report shows that the duties on wools, wool wastes, and shoddy, which are adjusted to the rate Of 33 cents on scoured wool are prohibitory in the same measure that the duty on scoured wool is prohibitory.
The duties on many classes of wool manufacture are prohibitory and greatly in excess of the difference in cost of production here and abroad.
This document dispatched, I believed the question of the prohibitory sword between me and Zeib Alnissa settled; but I was mistaken; she did not repeat Bazawa's grace at supper.
I am convinced that the spicy potion Zeib Alnissa prepared for me caused the drowsiness, and I only remember that, as I sank back on my pillow, she placed the prohibitory unsheathed sword between herself and me.
This again is not a very probable rendering, as the swallow would be too small a bird to be specially named in the prohibitory list.
Another name now rises before us: this is the Yanshuph, translated as the Great Owl, a word which occurs not only in the prohibitory passages of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, but in the Book of Isaiah.
The result was that Spain, which had been the most prosperous nation of Europe, and whose products and manufactures had supplied the markets of the world, lost nearly all her exports, and was forced to resort to the prohibitory system.
Then, through the outlet of the Mississippi our commerce could not be carried on with the ports of Carolina; for Louisiana, as we have seen before, would meet and stop our exports and imports with prohibitory duties.
Not only Louisiana, but State by State that borders on the Atlantic or the Gulf, might secede, seclude the West from the ocean, and render them the tributaries of the seaboard States, by laying prohibitory duties on their imports and exports.
There we would find the confederates from whom we had severed; we would find a foreign government, and prohibitory duties would exclude our access to Carolina's ports in that direction.
Each State, as under the old Confederacy, would force commerce into her own ports by prohibitory or discriminating statutes.
A prohibitory law that forbids the erection of unhealthy tenements throughout the cities of a state or nation is a distinctly progressive step, compulsory in its nature.
Henceforth all molasses from the French islands must either pay the prohibitory duty or be seized without ceremony.
Finally, in order to protect British farmers and their landlords, corn-laws were enacted, putting a prohibitory tariff on all kinds of grain and other farm produce shipped from the colonies to ports in Great Britain.
Inquisitors, moreover, assumed that this was included in their delegated apostolical faculties and undertook to issue licences, leading to a multiplication of privileged persons which nullified to some extent the prohibitory edicts.
It was both a prohibitory and an expurgatory Index in one stout volume.
Rigorous prohibitory measures will not effect this; they only make the matter worse.
Prohibitory measures have signally failed to suppress or check prostitution.
It will be necessary, in the first place, to consider the effect of stringent prohibitory measures.
If, in direct ratio to the stringency of prohibitory measures, the vice sought to be exterminated has steadily increased, does not reason suggest the expediency of resorting to other measures for its suppression?
This prohibitory system did not work so well as had been anticipated, and in 1837 a change was effected.
Although there were strong prohibitory decrees against the admission of foreigners in the interior, Mr. and Mrs. Underwood ventured to presume upon the connivance of the officials at their proposed journey to the far north.
It remained to us all to decide upon our course of conduct with regard to the prohibitory decree.
But the legislature, finding that the sentiment of the town of Boston was strong against the law, and that a new and permanent theatre was in the course of erection, repealed the prohibitory act a few months after.
Two successive legislatures had voted to submit to the people a prohibitory constitutional amendment, the vote to be taken in April, 1892.
In 1883 our convention received the following telegram from Syracuse: To the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of New York State: Prohibitory party convention sends greeting.
In 1883 the second petition for a prohibitory constitutional amendment was presented to the senate and assembly.
For though, as a citizen, the doctor was convinced that a prohibitory liquor law would be a good thing for Algonquin, personally he was not inclined to look upon the beverage as foul death-breeding liquid.
Being advised of the existence of a prohibitory law, he applied to the commanding officer for permission, which was refused; but M.
Earl Russell has confessed his mistake, and Catholics, whom it was intended to humiliate, are quite indifferent to a prohibitory measure which was never meant to be enforced.
This tax was in its action almostprohibitory of any attempt at establishing a higher grade of workmanship.
Although no law you may pass can take prohibitory effect until the first day of the year 1808, yet the intervening period is not too long to prevent by timely notice expeditions which can not be completed before that day.
Whilst by the repeal of highly protective and prohibitory duties the revenue has been increased, the taxes on the people have been diminished.
There is no disposition among any of our people to promote prohibitory or retaliatory legislation.
They are prohibitory on some articles and partially so on others, and bear most heavily on articles of common necessity and but lightly on articles of luxury.
Already we begin to hear from abroad and from our customhouses that the prohibitory effect upon importations imputed to the act is not justified.
The rates of duty imposed by it on some articles are prohibitory and on others so high as greatly to diminish importations and to produce a less amount of revenue than would be derived from lower rates.
There was some interference on the part of the authorities, but the new theater was erected and performances publicly given there, while the prohibitory law became a dead letter.
But in 1822 the Russian government placed a prohibitory duty on Burton ales, and the Burton brewers were forced into cultivating the home market.
Accordingly the prohibitory clause in the act of 6 Anne, c.
The Legislature passed a prohibitory law, subject to its ratification by the people by the use of the open ballot.
Prohibitory rates on ties and rails are also often maintained by railroad companies to either delay or render more costly the construction of new lines which threaten to become their competitors.
Canal rates were raised to such an extent as to make them prohibitory and to compel the public to ship by rail.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company several years ago even went so far as to make prohibitoryrates on steel rails intended for the construction of a road which promised to become a competitor of one of its connecting lines.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prohibitory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: exclusive; forbidding; inhibitive; preventive; prohibitive; repressive; suppressive
