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- noun Plural form of
blackball . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
blackball .
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Examples
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I don't like exclusionary policies, membership selection committees, blackballs, vetoes, or all the other games clubs play in order to keep their membership "select." â¨â¨
Alan Dershowitz: Why I Won't Join The Harvard Club in New York Alan Dershowitz 2010
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I don't like exclusionary policies, membership selection committees, blackballs, vetoes, or all the other games clubs play in order to keep their membership "select."
Alan Dershowitz: Why I Won't Join The Harvard Club in New York Alan Dershowitz 2010
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I don't like exclusionary policies, membership selection committees, blackballs, vetoes, or all the other games clubs play in order to keep their membership "select."
Alan Dershowitz: Why I Won't Join The Harvard Club in New York Alan Dershowitz 2010
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I don't like exclusionary policies, membership selection committees, blackballs, vetoes, or all the other games clubs play in order to keep their membership "select."
Alan Dershowitz: Why I Won't Join The Harvard Club in New York Alan Dershowitz 2010
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Randi Weingarten: wins top AFT job, successfully blackballs Klein without having to admit to it, and prevents DCTA from giving away the farm.
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It also creates a lucrative professional-development grant program for health-care workers that effectively blackballs nonunion medical facilities from participation.
Read the Union Health-Care Label Mark Mix 2009
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But for contracts directly with the World Bank -- to supply offices with technology and other services, for instance -- it doesn't routinely disclose firms it blackballs, even if it suspects those firms of bribery.
World Bank Had Cited 2009
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This thing is an utterly taboo human behavior and discussing it with anyone automatically blackballs any decent, God-fearing, law-abiding person, from "good" society, and distinguishes them as a perverted lunatic.
Water Cures, "The Love Guru," NY Times Leaks, Torture and Empire 2008
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OpEdNews - Article: London Mayor Boris Johnson blackballs Venezuela; insists sending back US$14 million to sever deal with Caracas
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UK music industry blackballs 12-y-o musician for supporting sharing - UPDATED
Boing Boing: August 13, 2006 - August 19, 2006 Archives 2006
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