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prohibitory

[ US /pɹoʊˈhɪbəˌtɔɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. tending to discourage (especially of prices)
    the price was prohibitive

How To Use prohibitory In A Sentence

  • Nearly 206 years ago, the British regime issued the first prohibitory orders against shooting birds.
  • ¨ At first instance Mr. Justice Jones characterized it has mandatory and refused to grant it while the Court of Appeal characterized it as prohibitory and granted it. Privy Council In Bank Ruling Wraps Jamaican Judiciary On the Knuckles, Part III : Law is Cool
  • Without strong prohibitory measures, this diabolic spirit disseminated by television channels cannot be done away with.
  • In many places they even have what may be called prohibitory reasons. A Tramp Abroad
  • Wearing a red-coloured 'kurta' and a 'tilak' on his forehead, Mr. Varun Gandhi reached the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Vipin Kumar even as a large number of supporters waiting outside the crowded court chanted slogans and waved saffron flags, in violation of all prohibitory orders. Top Stories - Google News
  • The structure of the prohibitory examples above is similar to the structure of the famous "liar's paradox," and they generally submit to the same kind of resolution that Lacan brought to the statement "I am lying": a separation of the subject of enunciation from the subject of the statement, a segregation of frames. _Alastor_, Apostasy, and the Ecology of Criticism
  • Morris perused the documents in the chilly gloom of the countinghouse: among them was a printed copy of the Prohibitory Act, a new law passed by Parliament just before Christmas in retaliation for the warlike posture of the colonies. Robert Morris
  • prohibitory" bill, which forbade all trade and intercourse with the The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration
  • They might not bring in totally restrictive and prohibitory provisions because they know the Minister will not approve them anyway.
  • The government passed prohibitory orders barring nearly 2,000 employees of Maruti's Manesar plant in Haryana from continuing with the strike--which has left the country's largest auto maker by sales with a daily production loss of 1,200 cars, or 400 million rupees $8.9 million--and referred the problem to the local labor court. Maruti Strikers Ordered Back to Work
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