Palffy's options are: play in the European leagues, which would eliminate him for National Hockey League eligibility for the entire 1998-99 season; play in the International Hockey League, or wait for another team to extend him a Group II offer sheet.
Nova is expected to miss his next outing for Class AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, but that would not eliminate him from consideration for a call-up next week.
But Mr. Villaraigosa saw those ambitions dashed last week in a dispiriting third-place finish in the primary for governor of California, a showing that not only eliminated him from contention for that office — but probably, as he acknowledged in a ruminative interview at his home in the Hollywood Hills on Wednesday, from elected life.
Obama aides were happily aware that sending the ambitious Petraeus back to work on its Gordian knot would eliminate him from consideration for the 2012 presidential race.
Anabel Hernández's forensically detailed account, translated by Iain Bruce and Lorna Scott Fox, of the rise of this "king of betrayal and bribery" over the last two decades reveals the shocking price Mexico has paid for not eliminating him and the other drugs cartels.
Shelly Finkel, Tyson's adviser, said that if Briggs was fighting on the February card, it would eliminate him as an opponent for Tyson on a pay-per-view show in March.
After a mental evaluation, a psychologist concluded Clemmons was competent to stand trial on the charges, which eliminated him as a candidate for involuntary commitment.
But as the pressures of the war here have mounted, so have demands from the country's new leaders, both Shiites and Kurds, for an early execution of Mr. Hussein, to eliminate him as a rallying point for Sunni militants fighting to restore, if not Mr. Hussein personally, at least some form of Sunni minority rule.
And a driver is a human being, prone to distractions and weaknesses, which need to be eliminated for him to operate at his best.
That is because last year, his first as governor, he spent considerably more time in Albany than in the city, eliminating the need for him to pay the city's tax, a spokesman said.
