Sentence examples similar to may blackball any from inspiring English sources

But Ahmed thought it was a farce, because the teachers would blackball any candidate they considered unsuitable.

"The UK independent retail bodies, together with retailers, have joined forces to blackball any label that sells to these 'home traders'," she says.

Some LDP members may try to blackball Mr Yosano in the Diet (parliament).

In fact the committee can veto the appointment of any commissioner – ie politicians can blackball anyone who looks like having the constitutional fortitude to be able to put a broom through the Augean Stables of the state.

In the 1830s, the New York insurance firms all agreed to blackball Hamilton by refusing to write policies for any of his ventures.

They did not blackball him.

In a bid to blackball Pamela Harriman, the socially active widow of an early political patron of his, Averell Harriman, Moynihan wrote, "It is depressing to say this, but I would find it difficult to enter the Century were there any prospect of this person being there".

What's he going to do, blackball us?

He has tried to blackball her husband from working in cycling.

At another point he said he wouldn't go into acting because studio heads can blackball you in Hollywood.

"That can be good or sometimes that can blackball you from other opportunities.