(n.) A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.
(n.) A ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in voting; -- in this sense usually two words.
(v. t.) To vote against, by putting a black ball into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize.
(v. t.) To blacken (leather, shoes, etc.) with blacking.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were all people the teachers wanted to blackball.
(2) That informality and sense of belonging to a club, in which the main sanction was the threat of being blackballed by your fellow members, largely disappeared with the restructuring (or rather destructuring) of the City that took place in 1986 – the so-called "big bang", from which both London's dramatic rise as a global financial hub and the collapse of 2007-8 directly stem.
(3) A sign by the doorbell warns that only members are admitted and a committee vets new applicants, blackballing some.
(4) After Trump accused Kelly of having “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever” during her questioning of him, a comment widely construed as referring to menstruation, he was blackballed from a conservative event and engaged in a brief boycott of Fox.
(5) Was it ever going 2 b anyone else after Summers blackballed?
(6) Many were subsequently refused redundancy compensation and blackballed, thus condemning their families to decades of impoverishment .
(7) This is a highly innovative approach, with well-designed legislation but the real challenge will be enforcement and implementation by the EU bodies, and the countries themselves.” Several species of crayfish will also be blackballed by the EU, although the American lobster was the subject of intense lobbying by Canada and is omitted from the list.
(8) But the immediate causa causans was the blackballing of a candidate whose merits were his own, but whose ancestory was condemned.
(9) But Ahmed thought it was a farce, because the teachers would blackball any candidate they considered unsuitable.
(10) The head of the CRU, Professor Phil Jones, as a top expert in his field, was regularly asked to review papers and he sometimes wrote critical reviews that may have had the effect of blackballing papers criticising his work.
(11) His Marxism was destined to shift from Karl to Groucho, as he first abandoned ideological affiliations and then, when blackballed from the Garrick Club, announced that he wouldn't join any club that would have him as a member.
(12) At the start of her career, she alleges, a mogul behaved “creepily” towards her, then tried to have her blackballed after she rejected him.
(13) Hodges was just 32 at the time, and believes he was blackballed for hanging out with Louis Farrakhan while pressuring other black NBA players, including his teammate Michael Jordan , to work harder on African American social issues.
(14) "The NEC reserves the right to blackball any MEP from standing again if their record was poor."
(15) Free from Fifa red tape, the rebel DiMayor clubs went feral, taking their blackballing as cue to cherry-pick whoever they fancied: the El Dorado era was born.
(16) It’s one thing for the DNC to blackball a former Maryland governor or even self-proclaimed democratic socialist senator from Vermont – it’s altogether another thing to do so to the second most powerful person in the United States government.
(17) For some months the NSN was a base for another former Gove adviser, Dominic Cummings, blackballed last year by Andy Coulson for a role at Mr Gove's right hand on the grounds that he was "too leaky".
Debar
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nature of surrogacy and required legislation is explored in this context, and it is argued that surrogacy should be subject to essentially the same regulation as adoption, thus debarring commercialization but without legislative intervention into the area of private reproductive behaviour.
(2) In anesthetized cats, whose peripheral muscarinic-cholinorecptors are blocked by m-cholinolytics (benzilyl choline) failing to penetrate into the brain, the cholinesterases reactivator diethyxime debars the centrally caused fall of the arterial pressure produced by armine, an inhibitor of cholinesterases readily gaining access into the brain.
(3) He said he wanted to see the rules on government campaigning in the referendum relaxed, arguing that the proposed rules were so restrictive that he might be debarred during the campaign period from even making a prime ministerial statement to the Commons after a meeting of the European Council.
(4) Labour, like the government, has said it would ban exclusivity clauses that would debar employees on zero-hours contracts from working for other companies.
(5) He has backed Wada’s call for Russia to be banned from athletics, saying: “Now for the first time we have the situation that Russia could be debarred from Olympics.
(6) Ucatt is unhappy with the scheme, pointing out that anyone accepting compensation has to drop all other legal claims and is debarred from speaking about what happened to them.
(7) Oligarch deadline Fugitive oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov, the former head of BTA Bank who is accused of embezzling $5bn (£3bn) from the Kazakh lender, is under pressure to turn himself in or risk being debarred from defending himself against fraud claims.
(8) The CofE has refused to countenance any form of official liturgical recognition for civil partnerships; has sought special exemptions from human rights and equalities legislation in order to continue discriminating against openly gay clergy or gay employees; has repeatedly restated its condemnation of all sexual relations outside heterosexual marriage; and has formally debarred even celibate gay clergy from becoming bishops.
(9) In May, Mr Justice Lewison threw out an action at the Royal Courts of Justice brought by Baron Mereworth, who maintains that it his hereditary entitlement to attend the Lords, despite the House of Lords Act 1999 debarring all but 92 of the 650 hereditary peers, including his late father Lord Oranmore and Browne.
(10) With this procedure a successful solution is provided for those cases that were debarred from endourological surgery because the tutor catheter was unable to pass.
(11) Guarded by snipers and sniffer dogs in a hangar that is described as a “sanctuary”, debarred to anyone without security clearance, Air Force One is a symptom of the privileged exclusivity that Trump the populist pretends to despise.
(12) The debate about the cost of journals is made difficult by the fact that there are wide variations across the industry, and of course competition issues debar any collaboration.
(13) But Mandelson adds Labour general secretary Iain McNicol should make his first priority to ensure unions and other third parties are debarred from paying any individual's party membership, which the party says allows the union additional muscle.
(14) Jones's clarification implies that he believes the chief purpose of marriage is procreation, and therefore gay people should be debarred, apparently ignoring the many married hetrosexual couples who do not have children.
(15) Maude said it would be "ridiculous" to debar companies whose employees are related to ministers after criticism over the Cabinet Office paying the legal firm that employs Miriam González Durántez £88,000 this year.
(16) It took two elections (he was again debarred) and three years, but he won.
(17) Some US-owned communications companies believe they are being put under conflicting legal pressures with their British-based firms being handed UK warrants to divulge data secretly that US law debars them from doing.
(18) There have been early scandals, too: one of her colleagues lined up for ministerial promotion was debarred after it emerged he had links with a member of a motorcycle gang.
(19) This effective debarring of women from the legislative process is more than an "embarrassment", it is profoundly undemocratic.
(20) This would therefore suggest that in a proven and recovered case of barotrauma it should not necessarily debar further diving activity.