Sentence examples for prohibitory from inspiring English sources

The word "prohibitory" is a correct and usable word in written English
You use it as an adjective to describe something that prohibits or forbade something from occurring. For example, "The prohibitory sign on the door indicates that access is not allowed."

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prohibitory

adjective

That serves to prohibit or forbid

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above the duty chargeable on sugars produced in our own colonies, which in practice is quite prohibitory, and we consequently consume none of their sugar.

Wheat, the great necessary of life, had been professedly by the Legislature put entirely out of the category of our regular foreign trade, and a scheme devised to be entirely prohibitory in ordinary years: there is only a device by which it may at a time of extraordinary pressure be let in.

That they are about to place a prohibitory duty on most of the articles which we export to that country.Third.Third

annually, and that country, by placing high prohibitory duties on our manufactures of 200 to 300 per cent.

In 2003, however, a federal appeals court upheld a lower-court ruling that required MasterCard and Visa to eliminate their prohibitory rules.

Banking transactions and bookkeeping were well developed, and some prohibitory rules were enacted against capitalist excesses.

Prohibitory regulations curb the socially more disruptive forms of sexual competition.

We are aware that there is a prohibitory law in existence respecting these animals, but it is seen that they roam abroad at pleasure, no one considering it their business to interfere with them".

Since then, Mr. Dunn said, the federal courthouses in Manhattan and Brooklyn have stricken prohibitory rules.

And leaders of the most powerful Dry organization, the Anti-Saloon League, grumpily aware of what one called the "alleged 'loss of revenue' argument," chose to focus most of its attention on state-by-state, rather than federal, prohibitory laws.

To repay that generosity, signs noting the "Thain Family Forest" were placed throughout the are, a fact that our colleague David W. Dunlap at City Room certainly noticed: They turn up on prohibitory signs, too.

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