Prohibition

Examples

• The prohibition of the importation of foreign woollen is equally favourable to the woollen manufacturers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Of course it would be a great relief to me to ask you several questions, sir; but I remember your prohibition. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But upon the greater part of goods, those duties are equivalent to a prohibition. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The like prohibition seems anciently to have made a part of the policy of most other European nations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The tax and prohibition operate in two different ways. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Cotton and all mixed fabrics were taxed threepence per yard, and the prohibition on printed cotton goods was withdrawn. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They remonstrated, therefore, against this prohibition as hurtful to trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• No tea I had ever seen outside of a prohibition state looked like that. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• When those countries became commercial, the merchants found this prohibition, upon many occasions, extremely inconvenient. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Mr Locke imputed this high price to the permission of exporting silver bullion, and to the prohibition of exporting silver coin. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The prohibition does not extend to us, does it? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The prohibition of exportation limits the improvement and cultivation of the country to what the supply of its own inhabitants require. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It would hurt the interest of the growers somewhat less than the prohibition, because it would not probably lower the price of wool quite so much. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Suppose they looked mankind in the face and asked themselves what was the result of answering evil with a prohibition. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They were solid, too, in asserting that no prohibition could prevent their exportation, when private people found any advantage in exporting them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• 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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