The United States may blackball any aid to Myanmar, which produces around half the world's heroin.

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Even attempts to privately blackball him had scant effect, since he could always sell to dealers and auctioneers through intermediaries.

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The omniscient network gives, say, a headhunter the ammunition to blackball a job candidate after turning up an ancient drunk driving arrest or a dispute with an online vendor.

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Some disgruntled Bozemanites wish that they could blackball Blixseth.

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Small-minded Edinburgh lawyers who disapproved of his campaigns might blackball him from their golf club, and did, but their slightly more sophisticated counterparts in London could hardly dismiss him as a wild leftie: they had known him in the Bullingdon Club and shared his views on hunting.

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If you thought the Board of the London Stock Exchange was a little scornful when it jilted Macquarie Bank for the first time back in December--" a derisory proposal which fundamentally undervalues the company and lacks any strategic or commercial credibility"--its latest blackball is downright disdainful.

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Within a few decades of its founding in 1815, members used the blackball to nix the hopes of candidates who included the Lord Chancellor of England, Lord Mountbatten and Sir Thomas Lipton, one of the greatest yachtsmen of the 20th century. (All eventually got in, the first two after royal intervention and Lipton only after he was in his 70s).

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