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the prohibitive favorite to win the nomination.

The cost of repairs would be prohibitive.

The project was abandoned because of prohibitive costs.

The government has put a prohibitive tax on foreign goods.

You can have prohibitive costs which are costs that get in the way.

However, their cost is prohibitive for most families.

We know the Guild wants a prohibitive price for weather satellites.

In Britain, insulation and its sometimes prohibitive cost has become a surprisingly hot topic.

Commonly known as Building 4200 it spent about 60 years as the center's base of operations, but renovations were cost prohibitive.

She nodded briefly, but evidently intending to accomplish the prohibitive distance as quickly as possible, slightly increased her speed.

He says that even though brain waves move a machine instead of the person's own body, the technology is still cost prohibitive.

But after just 27 years, the fleet was retired due to a number of issues, including noise, expensive overhead and cost prohibitive tickets.

Many, not understanding the prohibitive mass-ratio problem, may even think we'll bring water from some other planet rich in it.

The produce of the West—wheat, corn, bacon, hemp, cattle, and tobacco—was bulky and the cost of overland transportation was prohibitive.