Sentence examples for that are prohibitive from inspiring English sources

This means many materials necessary for storm preparation — storm windows, generators, battery-powered electronics — carry price tags that are prohibitive for many.

The attack of Sept. 11, 2001, combined with a punishing local economy and housing costs that are prohibitive for most young people, have made it ever tougher to chase a dream to the big city.

The realization of such highly predictive behaviors for humanoid robots is a challenge because standard approaches, such as optimal control, result in computation times that are prohibitive for the predictive control of complex coordinated full-body movements over multiple steps.

The rumoured bidders include Comcast, Cox Communications and Charter Communications, in which John Malone is the biggest investor.A big blowRWE, a German energy company, ditched a project to build the world's biggest offshore windpower array off the south-west coast of Britain, because of development costs that are "prohibitive in current market conditions".

While scanning electron microscopy is indeed a powerful tool for investigating objects at length-scales that are prohibitive using standard optical microscopy techniques, SEMs are equally useful in characterizing the micro- and macro-scale architectures of transparent, highly reflective, or morphologically complex materials.

"While there are a lot people interested, peripherally, in the Q.S. movement, there are startup costs involved that are prohibitive.

The 6% who claimed that city water was inadequate said it was the cost that was prohibitive.

"It's still a sport that's prohibitive because of the costs," said Wilson, who lives in Los Angeles.

Indeed, for heavily regulated entities that make much of their profits from trading and market-making, paying large fines is rapidly becoming just another cost of doing business and not one that is prohibitive.

Indeed, for heavily regulated entities that make much of their profits from trading and market-making, paying large fines is rapidly becoming just another cost of doing business — and not one that is prohibitive.

For Mr. Sternberg, the critters, which appeared as embroidery on a khaki suit, were just one example of what he is doing to keep the product interesting without resulting in a price that is prohibitive.