His wife, Tiffany, bemoans the fact that Portland and its charity circuit have "blackballed" the family.

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The Republicans have let in a lot of people who would have been blackballed at the country club.

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For the European Union on Wednesday blackballed 93--mostly African-based--airlines from the continent's airports.

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After questioning Citi for, among other things, its accounting pratices Mayo was blackballed by the bank which denied him access to executives.

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Williams wants to keep working in golf and selling out the player you loop for is a sure way to get blackballed from the sport.

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In 1998, after Mark McGwire admitted to doping while setting his home-run record, he was attacked in the press and later blackballed from the Hall of Fame.

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Former colleagues, assistants and journalists who ran afoul of the Armstrong machine, complained of being blackballed, ostracized and the object of lawsuits designed to shut them up.

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One spurned applicant, says Drummond, anchored his 150-ton schooner off the clubhouse and sent in a note saying he would commence shelling in 30 minutes unless the man who blackballed him--the son of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley--personally apologized.

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Is Giordano still being blackballed?

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