The ruling was aimed at disqualifying convicted politicians whose appeals could take years to move through India's clogged legal system.
While unionists were pointing out the risks to Scottish pensions and currency of independence, their opponents were disqualifying them from the contest.
The deposed government of Muhammad Morsi refused to curb these subsidies on imported goods, thereby disqualifying itself from $4.8 billion of badly needed help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF .If the military-backed government is to rectify Egypt's economic woes, it will need the IMF's loans and the return of foreign capital.
(It said it had uncovered a plot in which some of the ink had been smuggled into the country, apparently in an opposition attempt to dupe potential voters into disqualifying themselves through premature inking).One reason for Mr Badawi's debacle is that, for once, the opposition did not cut its own throat.
But nearly all the exiles suffer disqualifying flaws.
Although the evidence against him is formidable, mistakes by ham-fisted investigators may surface, disqualifying crucial bits of it.
The IEC owes its strength to foreigners' insistence that it be made stronger than it was during last year's presidential election, when it turned a blind eye to fraud committed in Mr Karzai's favour.This time it showed its teeth, disqualifying 24 candidates who between them took 10% of the available seats.
By disqualifying openly pious politicians like Mr Erdogan, the generals risk strengthening the very enemies they are eager to destroy.
It is an initiative without teeth: the ministers expressed their solidarity with Mr Maduro, disqualifying themselves as honest brokers in the opposition's eyes.In this section Inside the barrios The bets that failed The man from MIT ReprintsBrazil's wrong-headed calculation is that the protests will fizzle out.
Mr Richardson fared a little better, but was never really a factor in the race.Writing from California where the legislature, through admirable party discipline, missed the constitutional deadline for a budget by almost three months, I find myself wondering if state legislators are disqualifying state governors from higher office.
Given UEFA's cowering track record, it reamins questionable whether the organisation has the gumption to enforce its rules should this mean disqualifying a big team, such as Chelsea or Real Madrid.
