Boycott Sentence Examples

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  • Our plan is to boycott the circus.

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  • We will boycott the elections for the first presidential election.

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  • The union supporters will boycott the supermarket.

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  • During the Montgomery bus boycott, King was bombarded with death threats.

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  • They will boycott the Senate poll.

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  • This will certainly add fuel to the arguments for an academic boycott.

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  • The first of these awarded damages to the company which had sustained a secondary boycott.

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  • The voters decided to boycott the referendum, which needed a 50% turnout to be valid.

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  • Last year ethnic minority officers rebelled against the Met, urging a boycott of recruitment campaigns.

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  • There was a boycott of the referendum on British membership of the Euro.

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  • I suggest we organize an immediate boycott of all Nestle products.

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  • There will be a boycott of staff appraisal by all staff who participate in any form of staff performance appraisal.

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  • Some mild forms of boycott have occasionally been instituted.

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  • There was a boycott campaign against Ryton last month following the decision to close Ryton, with the loss of 2,300 jobs.

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  • However, the magnitude of the Arab boycott of US products is minimized by economists.

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  • This is the centre of the swadeshi movement for the boycott of English goods, of the most seditious speeches and writings and of conspiracies for the assassination of officials.

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  • The impact of a boycott is not simply economic.

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  • Could the Saudis be using their economic clout quietly with threats of an oil boycott?

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  • Would he experience a media boycott, or some other unpleasantness?

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  • He started life as a small tradesman; but turning to politics, he became a member of the corporation of Dublin, and made himself popular by his denunciation of municipal corruption and by his proposal of a boycott of English goods in Ireland, in retaliation for the restrictions imposed by the government on Irish commerce.

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  • Display posters, start petitions to boycott local supermarkets and liquor stores who sell to minors, and voice your concerns to your local government.

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  • One particularly galling feature of the SA has been the silent boycott of agreed actions which do not meet with SWP approval.

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  • For refusing to receive rents at figures fixed by the tenants, Captain Boycott (1832-1897), Lord Erne's agent in Mayo, was severely " boycotted," the name of the first victim being given to the new system.

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  • The first of these, decided in 1890, upheld the verdict of a jury awarding damages to the Moores Lime Company, which had sustained a secondary boycott because it had sold material to a contractor who had been boycotted by Bricklayers' Union No.

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  • The organization has called for a boycott of the game and is petitioning the makers to remove the offensive content toward American Indians.

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  • AustriaHungary had from the first undertaken to withdraw its garrisons from the sanjak of Novibazar - an important concession; after prolonged negotiations and a boycott of all Austrian goods exported to Turkey, it also agreed to pay £ 2,200,000 as compensation for the Turkish crown lands seized in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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  • I'm a big fan of Geoff Boycott, because he's not scared to shake the coop and upset people.

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  • Concerns that the public might boycott vaccines if their safety was called into question were considered paramount.

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  • A boycott is surely called for to expose the sham of this " recall " .

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  • Sunni areas ' northwest of Baghdad were marked by an effective boycott.

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  • Petersburg, and he worked a good deal behind the scenes, inciting to violence, advising a boycott of the Duma, hostility to the Cadets, etc. But he did not play any part in the Soviet of workmen, and disappeared as soon as it became clear, after the crushing of the outbreak in Moscow, that the troops and the people were not on the side of the revolutionaries.

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  • The Polish committee, which had been formed on a political basis, was dissolved after unprecedentedly stormy negotiations, due to discontent at the cession of Chelm (Kholm) to the Ukraine; the Poles threatened the rest of Austria with a boycott of food, and abstained from voting on the budget.

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  • Naturally, the merchant resents any developments which exclude him, and some mild forms of boycott have occasionally been instituted.

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  • Aggressive boycott campaign certified to strict go over strategy rider sponsored by.

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  • The actions today were part of a concerted campaign calling for boycott, divestment and sanctions against apartheid Israel.

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  • A boycott is surely called for to expose the sham of this " recall ".

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  • The ' sunni areas ' northwest of Baghdad were marked by an effective boycott.

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  • After The Marshall Mathers LP was nominated for Album of the Year in 2001, the gay-rights group GLAAD organized a boycott of the Grammys.

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  • The group is calling for a boycott and eventual ban of the game.

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  • Will a boycott this far into the life of the video game have any impact whatsoever?

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  • Their popularity wasn't hurt, and may well have been helped, when conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly organized a boycott of Reebok on the grounds that working with the rapper sent a negative message to impressionable children.

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  • In response, the Organic Consumers Association called for a boycott of Silk products, alleging that consumers had not been notified of the change and that the products had declined in quality but not in price.

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  • Now Target, Sears and Kmart are reversing their policy and putting "Christmas" back in the season, the result of a threatened boycott of the stores by the American Family Association, a pro-family organization from Tupelo, Mississippi.

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  • The Catholic bishops had urged voters to boycott the referendum, which needed a 50% turnout to be valid.

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  • The new ticker is designed to show the latest news related to the global boycott campaign against israel.

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  • The AAID has created a petition that urges for the boycott of the offending video game and all products distributed by Activision.

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