Prohibitions

Examples

• Unjust, however, as such prohibitions may be, they have not hitherto been very hurtful to the colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Hence the high duties and prohibitions upon all those foreign manufactures which can come into competition with our own. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The exportation of the materials of manufacture is sometimes discouraged by absolute prohibitions, and sometimes by high duties. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Extensive arbitrary prohibitions for the boys, for the girls, for the women, also probably came very early into human history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Those different restraints consisted sometimes in high duties, and sometimes in absolute prohibitions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The exportation, however, of the instruments of trade, properly so called, is commonly restrained, not by high duties, but by absolute prohibitions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• His gentleman is not the battlefield of wants and prohibitions; in him impulses flow freely through beneficent channels. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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