In many places they even have what may be called prohibitory reasons. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07] Reference
The prohibitory constitutional amendment was adopted. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886] Reference
Theism is in essence repressive, prohibitory, ascetic. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
Those deep, dark eyes have a strong prohibitory force. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
While the repeal of the prohibitory and restrictive duties of the act of. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Do they make no appeal for immediate, energetic and prohibitory legislation?. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
For that purpose it has in strong prohibitory language expressly declared that. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
I know many have not this faith because they believe prohibitory laws are failures. From Wordnik.com. [Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures] Reference
This last prohibitory remark was made in remembrance of Amarilly's commercial instincts. From Wordnik.com. [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference
Atlantic cities of South America may be freed from an almost prohibitory discrimination. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Confederacy, would force commerce into her own ports by prohibitory or discriminating statutes. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
There is no disposition among any of our people to promote prohibitory or retaliatory legislation. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
A prohibitory statute of Henry VII. 's reign, forbade card-playing save during the Christmas holidays. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
This tax was in its action almost prohibitory of any attempt at establishing a higher grade of workmanship. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
Parliament, in 1733, to pass an Act imposing prohibitory duties on all sugar and molasses of foreign growth. From Wordnik.com. [The Wars Between England and America] Reference
In 1883 the second petition for a prohibitory constitutional amendment was presented to the senate and assembly. From Wordnik.com. [Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York] Reference
Accordingly the prohibitory clause in the act of 6 Anne, c. 50, 1707 (in Record edition), which was repeated in the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
The circumstances under which she executed her great task would ordinarily be looked upon as altogether prohibitory. From Wordnik.com. [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference
Severe prohibitory measures were recommended, which, however, judicious counsel from another quarter happily averted. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
The constitution so limited the powers of the general assembly that it could only pass prohibitory and punitive laws. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
The Assembly, therefore, upon a petition from inhabitants inveighing against this custom enacted a prohibitory law in 1725. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
The reciprocity system has been rendered indispensable by the prohibitory system, which the other European powers have adopted. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
The moderate use of brandy was universal, but the drunkenness which blots these days of prohibitory laws was comparatively rare. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
For, unless the steel pen had been manufactured by tools and machinery, that useful article would virtually be at a prohibitory price. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced] Reference
The business world is demanding total-abstainers, and fifty millions of people in the United States are living under prohibitory laws. From Wordnik.com. [Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures] Reference
I have lived to see seventeen states under prohibition, fifty millions of people of the United States living under prohibitory laws, the. From Wordnik.com. [Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures] Reference
It is a plea for a prohibitory law, and is, probably, the first attempt made to secure a legislative enactment against the liquor traffic. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
Two successive legislatures had voted to submit to the people a prohibitory constitutional amendment, the vote to be taken in April, 1892. From Wordnik.com. [Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York] Reference
In spite of the prohibitory Puritan law (above, p. 150), a facile writer, Sir William Davenant, had begun, cautiously, a few years before the. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
Without a faithful adherence to this prohibitory law on the part of the patient all medication on the part of the physician will assuredly fail. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
The furniture maker often is forced to buy a new piano, from stock, and build it over as best he can, charging a price that is almost prohibitory. From Wordnik.com. [The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 01, No. 12, December 1895 English Country Houses] Reference
Again I forced him, and so hard that at last he put on what he considered a prohibitory price, a much higher one than before asked, but I snapped him up at once. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
April 12, 1882, the first petition to the state legislature for a prohibitory constitutional amendment was presented by Mrs. Mary T. Burt and Mrs.E. M.J. Decker. From Wordnik.com. [Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York] Reference
It assigns to each mine a certain percentage of the total production of the country, and lays a prohibitory tax upon what it produces in excess of this allotment. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
Massachusetts takes umbrage at the first syllable of our name, on account of its being at variance with the prohibitory law of that pleasant but Puritanical State. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 04, April 23, 1870] Reference
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