blacklist
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It warned investors that the blacklist "may subject us to increased scrutiny and potential further government actions".
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
While the blacklist does not freeze finances immediately, it triggers a brutal operational penalty on 30 June.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
The Brotherhood is a century-old Islamist group that renounced violence in the 1970s, though spinoffs such as Hamas remain active and on the U.S. blacklist.
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
In February, the Pentagon added Chinese technology heavyweights including Alibaba to a blacklist of Chinese military contractors, and immediately retracted it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Then there'd come a grand mix-up, a war or something, and a lot of princes had either lost their jobs or got on the blacklist.
From Shorty McCabe by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)
But for real change to happen, Congress and dozens of states must act to end these unfair blacklists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
In the 1950s, the rise of McCarthyism saw it used to accuse suspected communists of plotting against America, resulting in the Hollywood blacklists.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2025
Last year, after Ozturk authored an op-ed critical of Israel, her profile appeared on Canary Mission, a website that blacklists people and groups it accuses of antisemitism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
The buyer, a businessperson named Josef Liokumovich, passed the company’s background checks and was not on any financial blacklists.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 17, 2023
Many of the States, usually Western States—apt to be more forgetful of the common law than the older Commonwealths—have been at pains to pass statutes against blacklists.
From Popular Law-making by Stimson, Frederic Jesup
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