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We're telling developing nations that we don't want them to go through the process of developing, we don't want them to have coal or natural gas or even nuclear, we want them to use wind and solar, which is intermittent, which is ineffective, which is incredibly cost prohibitive. – Daniel Turner	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
A 50 % tariff on American whiskeys would no doubt make it cost prohibitive for some craft distillers to do business in European Union after all the time, energy and investment they spent working to break into this important international market. – Lisa Hawkins	Found on CNN 2 years ago
For smaller and nonprofit camps, costs like testing can become prohibitive. – Ron Hall	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The math says Joe is our prohibitive nominee. We need to bring the party together. – Andrew Yang	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think when the night is over, Joe Biden will be the prohibitive favorite to win the Democratic nomination, and quite frankly, if the night ends the way it has begun, I think it is time for us to shut this primary down. It is time for us to cancel the rest of these debates. – Jim Clyburn	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm glad that The Nintendo Play Station is highlighting the need for video game preservation, and obviously I wish Terry Diebold and his son'd been able to have The Nintendo Play Station in the museum's collection, but Terry Diebold and his son've never had the goal of getting every single piece of gaming history. Not only would it be prohibitive in terms of money and space, it's also not necessary to tell the history of video games. – Shannon Symonds	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The costs of direct military confrontation are prohibitive, and disrupting oil flows would alienate loose allies such as China and India, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a key chokepoint of global oil flows, remains a very unlikely event. – Julius Baer analyst Carsten Menke	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
As part of our support, USACE researched a variety of deterrent options, which included the construction of a trench as part of the barrier system along the southern border, after we performed a feasibility analysis, USACE did not execute trench construction as part of the final barrier system due to it being both cost-prohibitive and causing significant schedule delays. – Raini Brunson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
There are going to be some items ... that the supermarkets are just not going to handle anymore. It'll be price prohibitive for that. – Parmigiano Reggiano	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think that building should be available to members of Congress who have found housing costs to be prohibitive, it can be the affordable-housing-availability option. – Bennie Thompson	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We looked at other options such as having a resource officer here fulltime but they were all cost prohibitive, we decided to go ahead with the program and now we love it and stand by it. – Aaron Sydow	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It should therefore go beyond symbolism but be understood as prohibitive pricing, if a member state does not show solidarity in taking in refugees, it has to compensate with financial solidarity. – An EU source	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Only in the last two years has it become affordable and reliable, the cost has been prohibitive until recently and also the technology wasn't quite good enough. – Paul Murphy from IndigoVision	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I never thought she was a prohibitive favorite, i don't think she ever thought she was a prohibitive favorite. So I think it's, you know, everything's sort of coming down to Earth. – Vice President Joe Biden	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Cost of real estate and construction in some locations has become so prohibitive that it makes sense for us to evaluate acquisitions. – Chief Financial Officer Krishnan Akhileswaran	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It has become apparent that the age and condition of the house make it cost-prohibitive for anyone to use the house in its current location. – Paul Thomas	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive. – William Frank Buckley, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We're telling developing nations that we don't want them to go through the process of developing, we don't want them to have coal or natural gas or even nuclear, we want them to use wind and solar, which is intermittent, which is ineffective, which is incredibly cost prohibitive.

– Daniel Turner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

A 50 % tariff on American whiskeys would no doubt make it cost prohibitive for some craft distillers to do business in European Union after all the time, energy and investment they spent working to break into this important international market.

– Lisa Hawkins

Found on CNN
2 years ago

For smaller and nonprofit camps, costs like testing can become prohibitive.

– Ron Hall

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The math says Joe is our prohibitive nominee. We need to bring the party together.

– Andrew Yang

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I think when the night is over, Joe Biden will be the prohibitive favorite to win the Democratic nomination, and quite frankly, if the night ends the way it has begun, I think it is time for us to shut this primary down. It is time for us to cancel the rest of these debates.

– Jim Clyburn

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I'm glad that The Nintendo Play Station is highlighting the need for video game preservation, and obviously I wish Terry Diebold and his son'd been able to have The Nintendo Play Station in the museum's collection, but Terry Diebold and his son've never had the goal of getting every single piece of gaming history. Not only would it be prohibitive in terms of money and space, it's also not necessary to tell the history of video games.

– Shannon Symonds

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The costs of direct military confrontation are prohibitive, and disrupting oil flows would alienate loose allies such as China and India, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a key chokepoint of global oil flows, remains a very unlikely event.

– Julius Baer analyst Carsten Menke

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

As part of our support, USACE researched a variety of deterrent options, which included the construction of a trench as part of the barrier system along the southern border, after we performed a feasibility analysis, USACE did not execute trench construction as part of the final barrier system due to it being both cost-prohibitive and causing significant schedule delays.

– Raini Brunson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There are going to be some items ... that the supermarkets are just not going to handle anymore. It'll be price prohibitive for that.

– Parmigiano Reggiano

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I think that building should be available to members of Congress who have found housing costs to be prohibitive, it can be the affordable-housing-availability option.

– Bennie Thompson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We looked at other options such as having a resource officer here fulltime but they were all cost prohibitive, we decided to go ahead with the program and now we love it and stand by it.

– Aaron Sydow

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It should therefore go beyond symbolism but be understood as prohibitive pricing, if a member state does not show solidarity in taking in refugees, it has to compensate with financial solidarity.

– An EU source

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Only in the last two years has it become affordable and reliable, the cost has been prohibitive until recently and also the technology wasn't quite good enough.

– Paul Murphy from IndigoVision

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I never thought she was a prohibitive favorite, i don't think she ever thought she was a prohibitive favorite. So I think it's, you know, everything's sort of coming down to Earth.

– Vice President Joe Biden

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Cost of real estate and construction in some locations has become so prohibitive that it makes sense for us to evaluate acquisitions.

– Chief Financial Officer Krishnan Akhileswaran

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It has become apparent that the age and condition of the house make it cost-prohibitive for anyone to use the house in its current location.

– Paul Thomas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.

– William Frank Buckley, Jr.

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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