blackball
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Ms McKinney said modelling opportunities began to decline for her and she believed Mr Combs used his influence to "blackball" her in the industry.
From BBC ● May 22, 2024
Daniels told “Raq Rants” in 2018 that he did not blackball Mo’Nique.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2022
Regarding the charge from many of his accusers that he threatened to derail their careers if they spoke out: “I couldn’t blackball anybody, because if I said, ‘Don’t use that actress’ .
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2020
When she finally gave in, she insisted that I give her four weeks notice or she would blackball me.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2020
And I knew that by the next day, every railroad’s personnel office would have a blackball on me, so I never tried to get another railroad job.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
While that blackballs the firms, it does not ban all business dealings, the report added.
From Reuters ● Mar. 25, 2022
I buy licorice whips, jelly beans, many-layered blackballs with the seed in the middle, packages of fizzy sherbet you suck up through a straw.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Napoleon sees in this remark a germ of aggression on behalf of his House of Commons, more especially when emphasised by 125 blackballs against a Government Bill.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Henry Foljambe Hall
Julius Cæsar Conway;—a great friend of mine, and therefore he always blackballs my other friends at the club.
From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Anthony Trollope
Six blackballs shall exclude, and at least one-third of the members must vote in the affirmative to elect.
From American Big Game in Its Haunts by Various
That will make it possible to identify potential vetoes but not which country blackballed any given candidate.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
In an unpublished article titled “Das Kannibal,” Mitchell wrote angrily about being blackballed for speaking out against the war.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2025
She also said he had subsequently "blackballed" her in the modelling world.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2024
It happened after a Muhammad Ali fight back in 1970 when he couldn’t get sanctioned to fight anywhere; he’d been blackballed because of his stance against the Vietnam War.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
If he’s not careful, he’ll be blackballed by his state medical association and kept out of the hospitals.”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
And the reason for that compulsive work ethic was her unofficial blackballing by “Tonight Show” host Johnny Carson, for the crime of accepting Fox's offer to host her own talk show.
From Salon ● May 14, 2025
Mr. Krikorian says he’s been facing that sort of ideological blackballing for years.
From Washington Times ● May 30, 2022
He won a multimillion-dollar settlement in 2019 after he accused the league of blackballing him because of his protests.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2020
Supporters say team owners are blackballing him, and a group rallies outside NFL headquarters in Manhattan.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2020
Reform Club, Author elected member of, in 1878; "press-gang" at; excitement upon news of Phoenix Park murders; Mr. Chamberlain's brothers blackballed; proposal to abolish blackballing; Mr. Chamberlain resigns membership.
From Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 by Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson) Reid
