Sentences with phrase «fear of boycott»

Fear of boycott made him publish anonymously, and this redoubled the book's punch.

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When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sat at his kitchen table, in the winter of 1956, terrified by the fear of what might happen to him and his family during the Montgomery bus boycott, he said he heard the voice of Jesus promising, «I will be with you.»

The farmers and truckers interviewed said they had seen their produce rejected on flimsy grounds, but decided against challenging the ruling with the US department of agriculture's dispute mechanism for fear of being boycotted by powerful supermarket giants.

IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch had called the meeting out of fear that North Korea may try to instigate a Communist - bloc boycott of the»88 Games if its demand is not met.

I fear that the topic of the Nestle boycott is perceived as a lactivist's cause and that those who have formula fed have the freedom to, at best, ignore the boycott, or at worst, lob accusations at Nestle boycotters for being insensitive to the plight of those who have chosen formula for infant feeding.

He denied an insinuation that the NEC meeting was cancelled because of the fear that it could be boycotted by the majority of its members.

«The PDP is not part of the decision to boycott the election, we are fully ready to participate in the election, however all the fears raised in the position of the coalition are noted,» the chairman stated.

The initial fears of a possible breach, against the backdrop of the boycott order given by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) quickly disappeared with the presence of stern - looking security agents as voting got underway throughout the state.

The boycott is being actively discussed by lawmakers from Cuomo's own Democratic Party, who accuse the governor of deep - sixing what would have been their first pay raise in 16 years out of fear of a political backlash.

Toby Walsh, a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, who organized the boycott, fears that the research will be applied to autonomous weapons, which can include unmanned flying drones or submarines, cruise missiles, autonomously operated sentry guns, or battlefield robots.

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The Chamber of Commerce, fearing the effects of this boycott, made an interracial committee to deal with the issues of desegregation.

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The signatories of the boycott letter fear that autonomous weapons remove moral and ethical restraints that would allow terrorists and despots to unleash atrocities on innocent populations.