How To Use Disqualify In A Sentence

  • Is it real America or does that community's name disqualify the Brazilians of the Mississippi Delta? Burns Strider: Just When You Thought You Were American -- Conservatives Say Not So Fast
  • If I were to cobble together a list of summer trash the 1st thing I would do is disqualify anything that shows up your standard school reading list. Archive 2009-08-01
  • The equivocation of its affirmation - if affirmation it be - is first among the defects that ought to disqualify this proposal.
  • Now if, in the view of many Australians, lying does not disqualify you from national leadership, then it is no good just going on calling politicians liars?
  • The notion that bureaucratic infighting and occasional abruptness of manner should disqualify one from high office is laughable.
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  • Since it was a political junket, I'd say its quite cheeky for him to claim himself a former astronaut, but then again I don't think you'd want to 'disqualify' all Payload Specialists from being called astronauts. Is Senator Bill Nelson an Astronaut? - NASA Watch
  • A military appointing authority could choose to disqualify any panel member for good cause.
  • Trusts have long been used to hold assets that would otherwise disqualify the heir from public assistance.
  • Get real, I say, and properly punish these people or alternatively disqualify them from driving if they can't pay.
  • The fact that the genealogy of such claims is so distinctively national does not in itself disqualify them: any general truth will have a local point of origin.
  • Sorry if I had to disqualify your entry for lack of taste or offensiveness in general.
  • To loose new voter registrations, disqualify some because they are missing a punctuation mark, initimidate at the polls, challenge voters, disinform them, etc. Obama Leads By Over Five Points In Pre-Debate Tracking Polls
  • McCain will also try to "disqualify" you as an effective CinC given your lack of military service. Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Debate Prep #1: On Guard Against McCain
  • Maybe you should also disqualify those golfers who discharge phlegm from their mouths while playing.
  • On the other hand, McKinnon states that he didn't want to be a part of what would be the only strategy that was likely to work: to "disqualify" Obama. Mark McKinnon Dissents a Bit, But Also Defends Steve Schmidt - Swampland - TIME.com
  • While 24 agencies made specific reference to one or more possibly disqualifying attributes of prospective adopters, only 10 listed positive qualities they look for in assessing potential parents.
  • Well, any time you disqualify military votes you should be very, very careful about it, because they certainly deserve to be counted.
  • Now there was a veteran aboard who because his years began to disqualify him for more active work had been recently assigned duty as mainmastman in his watch, looking to the gear belayed at the rail roundabout that great spar near the deck. Billy Budd
  • One concern is that if the terminated plan had a disqualifying defect, any plan that accepts its rollovers runs the risk of being disqualified as well.
  • In 1987, the agency had directed blood banks to similarly disqualify donors who have received pituitary-derived growth hormone.
  • Disqualify pharmaceutical is prohibit to is import.
  • It was feared that unapproved tests are being used to disqualify applicants for life insurance which prompted MPs to recommended a moratorium of at least two years on the use of genetic tests.
  • The only reason that Clinton’s understandable (but not excusable) lying to strangers about an affair would be disqualifying is if it lead you to believe he was not trustworthy in public life. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Short List
  • Some prominent 19 th-century suffragists advocated adopting educational or property qualifications for voting that would disqualify most black women.
  • The power to disqualify agents also extends to those who are ethically incompetent in that they cannot be relied upon to conduct their principal's representation in an honest and ethical manner.
  • The wash sales trap potentially applies to any disqualifying disposition in which an employee, within 30 days - before or after the stock sale - repurchases company shares.
  • Should her last name disqualify Chelsea Clinton from running for office someday if she chooses to do so? Poll: Caroline Kennedy The Favorite For Hillary's Senate Seat, But Doubts Remain
  • The district judge convicted him of speeding but said that she would neither endorse his licence, nor disqualify him. Times, Sunday Times
  • The consequence of disqualifying a judge or lawyer is that a new one is assigned or retained.
  • Face cards and the joker disqualify a player from dealing first.
  • If Vassiliev is right that Weinstein has misrepresented the documents, that could disqualify him for the archivist position.
  • In extreme cases, officials might seize upon a technical rule violation and use it as an excuse to disqualify them.
  • (If democracy in any acceptation of the term was a precondition then the US-installed despot and megalomaniac Mikheil Saakashvili and the hereditary president-for-life dynasty of the Aliev family would disqualify Georgia and Azerbaijan, respectively.) Eastern Partnership: West's Final Assault On Former Soviet Union
  • If Lott's original words are not enough to disqualify him as Senate leader, then his maladroit grasp of public relations should be.
  • But this year, Western observers say the IEC has been more active in disqualifying candidates and polling centers. Afghan Body Tallies Fraudulent Votes
  • But to the unchastened White House, apparent opposition to contraceptives, abortion and science was the opposite of disqualifying.
  • Okay, let's see if I can figure out how to unmoderate this comment: Considering he left the campaign because he didn't want to be involved in disqualifying Obama, how can McKinnon say Schmidt's run a very good campaign, and that he wouldn't have done anything of significant difference? Mark McKinnon Dissents a Bit, But Also Defends Steve Schmidt - Swampland - TIME.com
  • Not being a Senator, I need not have an opinion on whether this probably innocent act of nonfeasance ought to disqualify Mr. Geithner from high office. Stromata Blog:
  • Refugees who refuse a place in an accommodation centre would disqualify themselves from any further benefits or help from the Government.
  • That degree of commitment could easily disqualify a judicial tribunal for bias.
  • However, it has led to a collapse in private savings because today's workers are afraid that stashing cash away for old age will prove counterproductive, simply disqualifying them from benefits.
  • These moves and other recent government proposals could further racialize our housing and credit markets by effectively disqualifying many lower-income borrowers, including a large share of borrowers of color. Dedrick Muhammad: Homeownership Should Not Become Impossible Dream
  • A significant disadvantage is that Homer is a fictional character, but that shouldn't necessarily disqualify him.
  • Ronald Ray points out that there is no inherent right to serve in the military, and many things can disqualify people from eligibility to serve.
  • I love not to make disqualifying speeches; by such we seem to intimate that we believe the complimenter to be in earnest, or perhaps that we think the compliment our due, and want to hear it cither repeated or confirmed; and yet, possibly, we have not that pretty confusion, and those transient blushes, ready, which Mr. Greville archly says are always to be at hand when we affect to disclaim the praises given us. Sir Charles Grandison
  • The stewards conferred and eventually decided to disqualify us.
  • Being a maverick and an opportunist should hardly disqualify the man from running for national office.
  • Felony convictions in most instances would automatically disqualify an immigrant from obtaining citizenship.
  • In FIBA, a foul resulting in ejection is called a disqualifying foul, while in leagues other than the NBA, such a foul is referred to as flagrant. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • But does this have the fact of disqualifying the Labour majority from considering the planning application?
  • Given this isomorphism, it seems perverse to disqualify blood cells and other microscopically viewed objects from the realm of observables’.
  • Thailand has a new election commission with powers to disqualify poll cheats and call revotes.
  • His words were not considered serious enough to refer to a national Administration Panel, which has the power to disqualify councillors from office for a fixed period of up to five years.
  • Lack of education will disqualify you for most good jobs.
  • The lack of a good education might disqualify you from some jobs.
  • Selling early is termed a disqualifying disposition and you have to pay tax at ordinary income tax rates which are much higher in most cases than if you hold the stock long enough to make selling your shares a qualifying disposition. Forbes.com: News
  • The Republican requirements also disqualify from the program homeowners with an annual income of more than $250,000 from the program. House approves $6 billion 'cash for caulkers'
  • Lack of education will disqualify you for most good jobs.
  • The fact that there is a subjective element does not disqualify an activity from being a sport, then. Times, Sunday Times
  • But back to tax exempt status with attendant effect to disqualify or discredit MEMRI.
  • The prime minister's strategy is clear, says Patrick Devedjian, a close Sarkozy adviser: to "disqualify" his rival as an unrealistic economic "ultraliberal" whose radicalism might prove dangerous. PERISCOPE
  • The district judge convicted him of speeding but said that she would neither endorse his licence, nor disqualify him. Times, Sunday Times
  • I love not to make disqualifying speeches; by such we seem to intimate that we believe the complimenter to be in earnest, or perhaps that we think the compliment our due, and want to hear it cither repeated or confirmed; and yet, possibly, we have not that pretty confusion, and those transient blushes, ready, which Mr. Greville archly says are always to be at hand when we affect to disclaim the praises given us. Sir Charles Grandison
  • Thomas Nast , whose antislavery political cartoons propelled him to notoriety in the 19th century, has ignited another uproar: whether his anti-Irish and -Catholic drawings should disqualify him from the New Jersey Hall of Fame. Cartoonist Draws Ire of N.J. Irish
  • Reservations about Humanae Vitae were enough to disqualify even the most gifted candidate.
  • The lack of a good education might disqualify you from some jobs.
  • Considering McKinnon left the campaign because he didn't want to be involved in disqualifying Obama, how can he say Schmidt's run a "very good campaign," and that he wouldn't have done anything of "significant difference? Mark McKinnon Dissents a Bit, But Also Defends Steve Schmidt - Swampland - TIME.com
  • The district judge convicted him of speeding but said that she would neither endorse his licence, nor disqualify him. Times, Sunday Times
  • Still another feature disqualifying many mammal species from domestication is the lack of suitable social structure.
  • It's a pity to disqualify the pun, but Pope Pius does not properly portray a postpositive modifier. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 3
  • The fact that there is a subjective element does not disqualify an activity from being a sport, then. Times, Sunday Times
  • Failure to present the required identification may disqualify you from the assessment process.
  • In the 2004 election campaign the Republicans roared about things like this, constantly referring to it as the kind of "flip-flop" that should disqualify the "flopper" from being President. "And John McCain either doesn't know who the Prime Minister of Spain is, thinks Spain is a country in Latin America, or possibly both."
  • A court can disqualify directors for between two and 15 years for unfit conduct.
  • This, and similar proposals for restrictions that would disqualify some existing parties from fielding candidates are discriminatory.
  • If lack of melanin doesn't disqualify Olsson than perhaps mentality should; when Olsson uses the word "outsider" to describe himself he assumes this is a novel way of approaching black culture, despite the fact that this voyeuristic way of documenting is a favorite for white American filmmakers Hoop Dreams, Waiting for Superman... Naima Ramos-Chapman: 'The Black Power Mixtape': Who's Telling You Your Stories?
  • Very few medical conditions automatically disqualify you from donating organs.
  • Tell the review committee to disqualify a certain applicant, Mr. Mo, who is enjoying a sizable popular support and who is supported by the opposite camp to you.
  • Will that disqualify me from claiming Council Tax Benefit?
  • An informed public is perfectly capable of deciding whether contributions accepted by a lawmaker should disqualify him or her from office.
  • Burgeoning India is hard enough to govern without disqualifying almost the entire population from becoming head of the country's biggest party.
  • nontypical," disqualifying it from holding the world title. News
  • But Margaret's husband had been a bigamist: did that disqualify her great-granddaughter?
  • The only thing that would "disqualify" Romney, or anyone else, from the GOP nomination is less primary votes than at least one other person. Latest Articles
  • Those philosophers with relatively weak naturalist commitments are inclined to understand ˜naturalism™ in a unrestrictive way, in order not to disqualify themselves as ˜naturalists™, while those who uphold stronger naturalist doctrines are happy to set the bar for Naturalism
  • Senate confirmation hearings for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in 1990, Alito promised in writing that he would "disqualify" himself from cases involving companies he had a financial interest in, naming Smith Barney and Vanguard mutual funds. Senators Snowe and Collins Must Work to Defeat Alito��s Supreme Court Nomination
  • Unlike last year, the IEC has been active in disqualifying candidates and polling centers so far, Western officials say. Fraud Found Rampant in Afghan Vote
  • While I like the idea of disqualifying people from all sides based upon the Libertarian Blog Place
  • What amount of obtuseness will disqualify a criticaster who itches to be tinkering and cobbling the noblest passages of thought that ever issued from mortal brain, while at the same time he stumbles and bungles in sentences of that simplicity and grammatical clearness, as not to tax the powers of a third-form schoolboy to explain? [ Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
  • Felony convictions in most instances would automatically disqualify an immigrant from obtaining citizenship.
  • How to avoid a psychotic relationship before it even gets started (Very few men know this secret, but it can save you a ton of misery-imagine, being able to "disqualify" a potential stalker, bitch, or gold digger 15 minutes after you meet her, not six months later) AvaxHome
  • Being infected should not add to her credibility, while not being so should not disqualify her from comment, she says.
  • Barrister, solicitor, judge, priest, doctor, member of parliament, people who are insane are among the category of people disqualify from being juror.
  • The flaws I disqualify a horse for are back at the knee, long pasterns, and a weak hind leg.
  • I don't see how either of those aspects would technically disqualify me from an unwanted job at a pet store, so I had some hope left.
  • An informed public is perfectly capable of deciding whether contributions accepted by a lawmaker should disqualify him or her from office.
  • As an Illinoisan, I find it disgusting that the press refuses to report on his political history (he knocked off all early political opponents in his first election through disqualifying petition signatures on technicalities, and struck a deal with Emil Jones that got him appointed legislation worked on originally by others to raise his political profile). The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Kagan I Presume?
  • The alliance also has accused Sinclair of wrongly disenrolling and disqualifying candidates on the ballot prior to holding that election. Greatfallstribune.com - Local News
  • The lack of a good education might disqualify you from some jobs.
  • To make matters worse, receiving pension credit may also disqualify you from, or reduce, other state benefits such as council tax relief.
  • Their methods range from disqualifying unwelcome candidates on spurious technicalities to threatening and detaining them, reports Chinese Human Rights Defenders, an activist group.
  • It excites an inflammatory irritation, which not only disturbs the secretion of mucus, but also disintegrates the intestinal juices so essential to the process of sanguification, thus disqualifying the blood from properly contributing to the reproduction of the nervous tissue. Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent
  • Magistrates have a discretion not to disqualify, but only if there are good reasons that fall within narrowly-defined limits.
  • At least at a glance it seems that the only church AP feels the need to qualify (or disqualify) with a political epithet is a church being discriminated against for welcoming all people, a seemingly "liberal" concept. 12/01/2004
  • The American and the Swiss judges concurred in disqualifying Pladner for a low left hook which floored Genaro for the count in the fifth, but the French judge refused to agree, declaring that Pladner had won every round.
  • Most galling of all is the ridiculous statements the committee has made in disqualifying the Yes team.

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