(1) In theory at least, any one of its 148 members could blackball an agreement.(2) Failure to reply with a swift u2018Yesu2019, even a slight hesitation, was enough to blackball the hopeful candidate.(3) You have a situation whereby a member from a home state can essentially blackball a nominee, and the nominee never knows what hit them.(4) Oh, how right the EU Parliament was to blackball him from the EU Commission!(5) Another was blackballed because the women felt he established more eye contact with the male than the female interviewers.(6) I was blackballed and blacklisted, vilified and scarified and was reduced to having to go incognito to the pub to enjoy a pint or three.(7) He was almost blackballed from the Alpine Club and on one occasion even assaulted.(8) Do so and you'll be blackballed , is the message.(9) The report was questionable, he said, given the fact that other ministers who were also running for the presidency were not being blackballed .(10) The member of the Board of Directors who blackballed the candidate has finally been convinced to remove his objection.(11) Look how the channel has blackballed artists who dared to speak in opposition to the war, while also organizing pro-war rallies across the country.(12) This should have had a negative impact on his career, actors have been blackballed for a single such act, never mind a seemingly endless succession of them.(13) The embarrassment to baseball was so great that soon enough, after Dad sold the club, I was essentially blackballed from Major League Baseball.(14) When it came to the inquiry, all the people who had flocked to advise him blackballed him.(15) They blackballed all DVD proposals that didn't include robust security measures, and threatened to do anything in their power to kill formats that didn't adequately protect content.(16) The result was I was blackballed from finding other work in southern CA.
