The trouble with this approach though, Desnoyers explained, is that people often have very specialized requirements, and the way Amazon designs its products shuts those people out or makes it prohibitively expensive if they need specialized services.
This in turn makes it prohibitively expensive to recapitalise the banks.
The small scale makes it prohibitively expensive for most Indian farmers to invest in efficient irrigation systems or mechanized harvesters.
What makes it prohibitively expensive to retrofit a Smart car, he said, are such uniquely American twists as an on-board pollution diagnostics system.
For Mustard, that makes it prohibitively expensive because the TV service would not add enough viewing households to make the payments commercially viable.
Coal also faces intense competition from historically low prices for natural gas, which makes it prohibitively expensive to build new coal plants with CCS.
Nor does it mean that the only solution is the sort of due-process law enforcement that makes it prohibitively hard, in Bush's words, "to know the plans of terrorists before they act, and find them before they strike".
The large number of Cartesian co-ordinate variables involved in crack front representation makes it prohibitively expensive to train surrogate models for crack growth.
