Sentence examples for nearly disqualified from inspiring English sources

Golota has twice been disqualified for hitting low; Tyson was nearly disqualified in his last bout for hitting late.

Yet he was nearly disqualified from the competition before he started.

Djokovic was nearly disqualified after a racket he bounced in frustration flew a foot from a line judge.

According to legend, Rockefeller, despised by them anyway as a civil rights liberal, nearly disqualified himself by trying to pour sugar on his grits.

A former prime minister, Sergei Stepashin, who is running independently of the Kremlin, was nearly disqualified for registering himself as the owner of 0.2 rather than two hectares (five acres) of land.

He messed up the front nine last year, he had his meltdown, and was nearly disqualified for kicking sand in a bunker on 2010.

"Based on her words under oath, he's said things in the workplace that are nearly disqualifying for someone to run for any office, least of all, certainly, mayor," he said.

The first in a series of surprise legal and procedural reversals came in April, when the election commission disqualified nearly a dozen candidates, including two of the most prominent: Omar Suleiman, Mubārak's former intelligence chief, and Khairat al-Shater, a Muslim Brotherhood leader.

The cleric-dominated Guardian Council reinstated 700 candidates from among the nearly 3,600 it disqualified for elections on Feb. 20.

The action comes after widespread criticism of the preliminary results, which were announced in October and disqualified nearly a quarter of the votes because of suspicions of fraud.

Iranian state news media reported Wednesday that the Guardian Council, which had disqualified nearly 3,600 candidates for the Feb. 20 elections, reinstated 100 candidates.