There is also a real risk that the IRS will decide that donor-dominated management disqualifies a trust.
That, and the fact that he never held elective office disqualifies him as a serious candidate for president.
But there's another similarity that disqualifies both contests from constituting a realigning election: The elections turned on their predecessors.
Another much-contested Academy rule disqualifies all movies that premiered on television, even films that had a theatrical run following their TV debut.
Apparently, Mr. Cooke believes that having had a previous career in an unrelated field disqualifies one from being competent in a very different line of work.
You might look at these numbers and think your income level disqualifies you, but the details of the rules make qualifying easier than it may seem.
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Turkish law disqualifies candidates with criminal records from running for office - although Mr Erdogan had challenged those rules citing recent amendments to the Turkish penal code.
We read the rules and showed folks how to enter the Apple iTunes contest for free here, then of course, someone tries to enter 3, 000 times and Apple disqualifies them.
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Some think his uniform disqualifies him for the post.
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It may seem unfair, as well as ironic, to say that an accident of birth disqualifies Viscount Cranborne from taking the lead in a matter so close to his heart and history.
"Any and every horse Dutrow becomes involved with during the 10 years his license is revoked ... disqualifies the horse from any racetrack throughout New York state, " the civil court complaint says.
Meanwhile, Mr Anwar will not be campaigning for a long time: a jail term of more than a year disqualifies him from standing for parliament for five years after completion of the sentence.
The Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 disqualifies a person from standing for election as a police and crime commissioner (PCC) if they have, at any time, been convicted of an imprisonable offence.
And America's friendship with Britain disqualifies it from pressuring the unionists or from taking centre stage in a way that would seem to usurp Britain's role as sovereign power, or harm British national interests.
Just the mere label of sex offender disqualifies a person from being eligible for gainful employment in 95% of all workk force enviornments due to the need for that person to have interaction with the public.
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Since 1624 MPs have been banned from resigning their seat, so any member wanting to quit has to go through the process of applying for a paid office of the Crown, which automatically disqualifies them from holding a seat in the Commons.
If a background check discloses a criminal offense, the EEOC expects a company to do an intricate "individualized assessment" that will somehow prove that it has a "business necessity" not to hire the ex-offender (or that his offense disqualifies him for a specific job).
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The evening is memorable mostly for the searing arias delivered by Big Mama (the electrifying Tonya Pinkins), a bone-tired matriarch who works nights at a hospital only to discover that the little extra money she makes disqualifies her from being relocated to a better housing project.
They touted the package as a comprehensive response to Newtown that also addresses mental health and school-security measures, including the creation of a new council to establish school-safety standards and the expansion of circumstances when someone's mental-health history disqualifies him or her from obtaining a gun permit or other gun credentials.
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They touted the package as a comprehensive response to Newtown that also addresses mental health and school security measures, including the creation of a new council to establish school safety standards and the expansion of circumstances when someone's mental history disqualifies him or her from obtaining a gun permit or other gun credentials.
"Regardless of this firm's expertise on purely technical matters unrelated to policy formation, Ecology and Environment's participation in a trade association and lobbying effort in support of authorizing high-volume hydraulic fracturing in New York fundamentally disqualifies the firm and its work" for the DEC environmental impact study, Russ Haven of the New York Public Interest Research Group said in a statement released Wednesday.
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