He added, "There were times when I was blackballed from this office".
The first chance he got, he took a cottage in the Lake District, and was only concerned he might be blackballed from the yachting club.
In addition to being blackballed from the only job their specialized training qualified them to do, controllers who refused the President's deadline faced repercussions in their communities.
Nonetheless, "in the face of the intimidation from gag orders and the threat of being blackballed from the industry, some brave workers stepped forward to file complaints, and the Department began investigating," Hira continued.
He was unable to find a job in baseball for several years, leading him to claim that he had been blackballed from the game.
It seems a more likely explanation is that they fear even more that if their names were associated with such a slapdash, factually challenged production as "A Question of Eligibility," they would be blackballed from the film industry.
Despite his numerous scientific contributions and the blockbuster success of science communication/education projects such as Cosmos (a 13-part TV show that aired on PBS and opened the world of science to millions of Americans in the early 1980s), Sagan was blackballed from membership by the National Academy of Sciences despite his great impact on science and society.
This action (and others like it) was intensely unpopular with the other investors, however, and he was blackballed from entry in the New York Stock Exchange several times before regaining admittance.
Carter said Johnson was "blackballed" from baseball after being fired by the Dodgers in 2000 and "lost his desire".
The appointment caused some raised eyebrows in the square mile, where Longford was blackballed from at least one financiers' club.
