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 prohibitive [prə'hɪbɪtɪv]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 禁止的, 禁止性的

[经] 禁止性的, 抑制的




    prohibitive
    [ adj ]
    tending to discourage (especially of prices)
    <adj.all>
    the price was prohibitive


    Prohibitive \Pro*hib"it*ive\, a. [Cf. F. prohibitif.]
    That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is
    prohibitive.

    1. Dr. Lalezari finds the conditions that Roche currently imposes on getting DDC to be prohibitive, so he sends patients to the underground.
    2. As Koop said to The Associated Press: "This is not a prohibitive society.
    3. Many times a large buyer wants to purchase from a willing seller at the market price a large block of stock that would trigger this prohibitive rule.
    4. At the same time, would-be individual dealers are being discouraged by the 'prohibitive' cost of setting up a dealership - often more than Pounds 1m. The UK motor trade owned 19 outlets abroad in 1990.
    5. A maximum tariff of 90% is still about as prohibitive as the former 125%.
    6. According to John Towey, of Isis, British schools are now recapturing ground previously lost to Australia. Schools there appealed to Asian parents because fees tended to be lower, and transport costs were less prohibitive.
    7. Then Congress should move to simplify the complex maze of pension laws and regulations that lead to prohibitive administrative and compliance costs for many employers, particularly the small businesses that create the preponderance of new jobs.
    8. Most potential traders say they have been discouraged from entering the market by the prohibitive cost of credit. As a result, vast regions of Zambia are now bereft of marketing channels through which small farmers can sell their surplus produce.
    9. The 100-year-old house has none of these, and Pennsylvania officials and Scott Eldredge, the social worker who directs Best Nest, agree such renovations might be prohibitive.
    10. "What it will mean is that when you don't have expertise available in Sweden and you want to bring it in, you're faced with a prohibitive price," says David Varney, the British head of Svenska Shell AB.
    11. The Ways and Means measure contains some needed takeover reforms, such as a prohibitive tax on "greenmail" payments to raiders.
    12. In contrast, Dukakis didn't take on the air of prohibitive front-runner until a week ago, when he scored a decisive victory in the New York primary and knocked Sen. Albert Gore Jr. from the race.
    13. But the cost per soldier, he believes, would be prohibitive.
    14. And they pledged a full review of their land taxation system. Critics contend this system has restricted land use and pushed up prices to prohibitive levels, making it difficult for foreigners to buy into their market.
    15. "Look at a country like England, where executive compensation is quite low in cash, but's that because they have a prohibitive tax structure.
    16. The law was enacted after the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1973 case Roe v. Wade found prohibitive abortion laws unconstitutional.
    17. FMC then turned to a federal trial judge for help, contending that the federal law, ERISA, was meant to be the sole means of regulating its health care plan and that it therefore pre-empted the prohibitive Pennsylvania law.
    18. It is no longer prohibitive to order trees, fruit and roses by mail from a catalogue.
    19. Most of our customers are in central London but rents and rates there are prohibitive.
    20. "Today, the cost of junk bond financing has become prohibitive for anyone doing an LBO or offering securities to others," Mr. Jordan said.
    21. 'The price of land has stabilised.' But the price has stabilised at a very high level - between DM10,000 and DM15,000 a square-metre - and construction costs can be prohibitive.
    22. "We would have to go to the Supreme Court of the U.S., and the legal costs make that prohibitive," Mecham said on KTSP-TV's "Face the State" program, which was taped Friday to be aired on Sunday.
    23. Such a split would strengthen Daley, who split the white vote with former Mayor Jane Byrne in a 1983 Democratic primary and thus helped Washington move into the general election, in which Democrats historically have been prohibitive favorites.
    24. The drop in mortgage interest rates that began in March is being offset by the prohibitive high cost to first-time buyers, causing only a "modest rally" in sales of existing homes for the rest of the year, a real estate trade group said Tuesday.
    25. A collapse of the dollar would have trade-blocking effects quite similar to a prohibitive tariff, and remains the truly dark cloud on the economic horizon today.
    26. Dukakis, the popular governor of this liberal state, was a prohibitive favorite in the Democratic primary, where 98 delegates were at stake, the party's third-biggest prize of the day.
    27. The costs would be prohibitive.
    28. The others have scope to invest in Hong Kong and other local markets, and Hafnia Prolific, which is a fully-authorised fund, has only a maximum of 10 per cent in 'B' shares. Minimum investments are not prohibitive compared with unit trusts.
    29. In Dukakis' home state of Massachusetts, which votes on Super Tuesday, the governor enjoys a prohibitive lead among Democratic presidential candidates, while Bush leads the GOP field, a new poll indicates.
    30. He says the Met Office's price for a year's radar data was a 'prohibitive' Pounds 40,000. 'The radar is paid for by public money.
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