(Most Muslims, for instance, have Fridays as their principal day of prayer, ruling out the use of schools).
When you don't talk to somebody, you're ruling out the use of something that could strengthen you".
The complaint seems somewhat odd, however, since his golf course ruling rejected the use of corporate headquarters as the basis for venue.
The army chief backed his decision, but by mid-week was still ruling out the use of force to clear the squatters out.
Yet these grand goals are coupled with modest methods: the administration appears determined to rely on air power, ruling out the use of ground forces.
Far better if the government in Westminster followed the lead of Alex Salmond's administration in Edinburgh, which has committed to ruling out the use of custody in sentences of six months or less as a matter of principle.
The BBC Trust's editorial standards committee published the findings of its internal investigation on Tuesday, ruling that the use of the word in the show was not racially motivated.
The Court of Appeal helped when it decided that British regulations ruling out the use of tax havens for avoidance schemes did not conflict with European law, as the corporation claimed.
The committee is not ruling out the use of biofuels, however, and in other examples it identified optimal sites for planting bioenergy crops, including former tropical forests now overrun by grasses that frequently catch on fire.
The battle of the competing narratives grew even more one-sided the next day, when Obama answered an out-of-left-field question by flatly ruling out the use of nuclear weapons against terrorist targets in Afghanistan and Pakistan and then awkwardly trying to footnote his categorical answer.
