| Votes were written on ostraka, which were broken pots, and from this name comes our present word to ostracise. |
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| They were also outsiders in royal courts where courtiers did everything possible to sideline and ostracise them. |
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| It was almost impossible for them to contemplate escaping to a society that would only ostracise them and condemn them as sinners. |
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| He said EU policy has been to increase the support for the railways and ostracise roads. |
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| Syria has long led moves to ostracise the peace-makers, boycotting last year's Arab-Israeli get-together in Qatar. |
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| It is also a convenient way to ostracise a whole segment of a population, formed of lots of different individuals who are linked by some behaviour trends, which are rather superficial and only part of their story. |
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| Civil servants in some departments are given loans on generous terms. American officials depict the international campaign to ostracise Iran as successful coalition-building. |
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| If a minor but ambitious firm like Salomon Brothers tried to by-pass the managing underwriter and go direct to a client, the underwriter would ostracise it and give it a bad name on Wall Street. |
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| Austria's ruling conservatives were delighted by Mr Orban's denunciation of the other EU countries' efforts to ostracise them for taking Jörg Haider's lot into their coalition two years ago. |
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