| To the north the route to the summit on which pre-war Everest expeditions pinned their hopes looked in its upper reaches prohibitively steep. |
| Every transit network has its fare beaters, the riders who view payment as either optional or prohibitively expensive. |
| Poison pills are designed to make it prohibitively expensive for a predator to take over a company. |
| Teachers were leaving the area in droves because of its prohibitively high housing costs. |
| The cost of dental treatment for those without a medical card is prohibitively high. |
| The bank may reboot its bond-buying program, a boon for debt-strapped Eurozone countries squeezed by prohibitively high funding costs. |
