Precluded Quotes

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin. - Clarence Thomas

We are precluded by law from discussing the substance of that exchange. RIM expects to continue communications through that channel. - Mark Guibert

We are by law required to provide certain public facilities. Water and sewer facilities require large tracts of land, and if we are precluded from obtaining large tracts of land, how are we going to be able to do that? - Steve Atkins

Ultimately, he had a groin injury that precluded him from working out. If you don't work for 17 days, you don't have a chance to show your stuff. But his past difficulties have prepared him for times like these. He takes it with a grain of salt and believes he will rise from ashes again. - Steve Feldman

The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope. - John Strachan

The biggest concern I had back then was that the acquisition price developers would have had to pay would have precluded them from making conversions. - Mike Jones

Precluded from any recovery because he may not profit from his own intentional, willful ... wrongdoing. - Robert Blake

People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care. - Tom Daschle

Not having success as a team actually precluded his opportunity to move up even higher. One of the disappointments of not going far into the playoffs, is that our draft eligible players don't get as much opportunity to be seen (by NHL scouts). - Bill Bestwick