Sentences with phrase «boycott at»

A sudden boycott at mealtime might be due to dental pain.Ever chomp down on a piece of taffy only to have it tear out a filling?

Mary O'Connor - Shaver of Columbus Top Dogs and the Coalition to Ban Ohio Dog Auctions has requested an all out boycott at auctions.

Then, we'll discuss the test boycott at Garfield HS in Seattle, WA.

I didn't recognize the number — but when a teacher on the other end of line said that she was organizing a testing boycott at her high school, I certainly recognized the situation.

But Sara Tomlinson, calling for a boycott at the NUT annual conference in Harrogate, said: «We actually have the chance to stop these tests.

Jesse shared the details of the test boycott at Garfield, and inspired everyone with his wisdom and fire.

You can find the story of her involvement in the boycott at Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The tests — required as part of this year's new teacher evaluations — inspired a boycott at one school and a union - led drive to ban standardized tests for pre-kindergarten through second grade.

Breaking the Socialist Workers» canteen boycott at University.

Chartwells has encountered problems in other parts of the country, including a well - publicized student boycott at a Connecticut high school last fall over the quality of the food the company provided.

So when administrators announced last month that the cafeteria would stop accepting cash and required the use of a school - issued debit card that charges a 10 percent usage fee, hundreds of students staged a lunch boycott at both Minooka high school campuses.

Supporters of the boycott at several UK universities started to protest at Nestlé appearing on campus for graduate recruitments, arguing if it wanted access to campus it should debate with Baby Milk Action.

A few weeks ago I posted twice (here and here) about a school food boycott at Milby, a high school serving a relatively underprivileged Hispanic population in east Houston.

If individuals choose to do so, fine, (and I'll keep buying generic meds) but I'm not trying to organize a boycott at this time.

According to the Daily Mirror, Toon supporters are planning a boycott at their next home fixture against Tottenham, as they vent their fury at their club's decline in recent months.

Wenger out banners won't solve nothing, all we need do boycott at least 4 games.

So suggesting boycott at a club like arsenal, is like suggesting you can go swimming without getting wet.

Education blogger Richard Selfridge, another speaker at the forum, said the fact that «people are discussing boycotts at this stage» highlights the «concerns that people in the profession have» about the new assessment.

Not exact matches

The site's editor - in - chief said at the time that boycotting Breitbart News «for presenting mainstream American ideas is an act of discrimination and intense prejudice.»

At least five Democratic Representatives will boycott President Trump's State of the Union address on Jan. 30.

But the first of many boycotts against Nike was followed by corporate efforts at reform, and the company now has a history of holding suppliers to account and cutting off those that don't measure up.

«Boycott Apple until such time as they give that information,» Trump was quoted by Reuters as saying at a campaign event in Pawleys Island, South Carolina.

The best way to anticipate what could happen next in the Trump era is to look at one of the biggest political controversies in retail in the past decade, the Chick - fil - A boycotts.

After Nooyi appeared at a New York Times conference last week, online boycotts began to float around alleging she said she «loathed» President - elect Donald Trump and «hated» his supporters.

For one thing, the boycott is so diffuse — targeted as it is at dozens of companies — that little real impact can be expected to be felt by those companies, in terms of the bottom line.

«Any potential NFL boycott is more likely to be determined in this weekend's results,» Shawn Quigg, an equity derivatives strategist at JPMorgan, wrote in a client note.

Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick relinquished that position last month after allegations of systemic sexual harassment at the company, boycotts, and accounts of the company's bare - knuckled tactics.

At the time, analysts predicted that Google could lose up to $ 750 million from the boycott.

At one point, about 250 advertisers were boycotting YouTube.

At the time several brands were caught up in short - lived protests and calls for a boycott, including Apple.

Some are urging a boycott of the U.S. — arriving at the obvious conclusion that there's no need to have a global scientific gathering in any one country.

According to analysts at Nomura Instinet, meanwhile, even if Google does move to address the issue quickly, the boycott could cost its video service dearly.

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But as Jeff Guo noted at Vox, O'Reilly's ratings were dipping — and an advertiser boycott meant it may have made business sense for Fox to let him go.

NBC's «Saturday Night Live» poked fun at the recent advertiser boycott of Fox News host Laura Ingraham led by Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg.

The group also posted a photo of a desolate - looking Terminal 4 at the airport to illustrate its boycott.

While the tourism boycott is not, as you note, likely to have a direct or significant impact on Alberta's economy, it should not be looked at in isolation from the broader campaign against the oil sands.

«The only way the boycott will be effective is if it creates enough reputational damage that regulation becomes a reasonable option or if advertisers leave en masse,» says Brayden King, a professor at the Northwestern Kellogg School of Management who studies how social movement activists influence corporate social responsibility and policymaking.

That consumer revolt underscored what Uber and other businesses face in a «polarizing time,» when people are sensitive to the «political leanings» of companies» actions and are willing to boycott their products and services, says Evan Rawley, an associate business professor at Columbia Business School.

At one point in early 2016 Trump even called for a boycott of Apple unless the company helped the FBI break into the iPhone of a San Bernardino shooter.

At least one advertiser has responded to the calls for a boycott: Amy McGrath, a Democratic candidate for Congress in Kentucky.

At stake may be Uber's ability to attract talent, avoid more customer boycotts and go public at a higher valuatioAt stake may be Uber's ability to attract talent, avoid more customer boycotts and go public at a higher valuatioat a higher valuation.

While the sabre rattling and economic boycotts are very visible actions, behind the scenes discussions between cooler heads will likely be what leads to a politically palitable resolution, if that is even possible at this point.

Leaders of the four opposition parties said Tuesday they will boycott the panel unless Premier Rachel Notley's government gives it the tools to get at the root of the problem...

The people at that church should boycott it for having a preacher that is so prejudice and by passing judgment on her he committed the greatest sin of all.

Joe Knippenberg talks about the Chick - Fil - A boycott on another blog page at First Things, Playing Chicken with the First Amendment.

From Southern Baptist boycotts of Disney and theonomic tub - thumpers screaming blue murder from crackpot websites to Roman Catholic grandees assuming that their academic achievements require that the world take them seriously, Christians have proved adept at the ways and means of worldly «political politics.»

One of the main show courts at Melbourne Park, the venue for the Australian Open, is named after Court and Martina Navratilova has been among those to call for it to be renamed, while Australian number one Sam Stosur said players could choose to boycott the arena at next year's tournament.

John Kennedy repeatedly appointed segregationist judges to the federal bench in the South, and the civil rights case that Robert Kennedy most vigorously prosecuted involved charges brought against Albany, Georgia, activists for violating the rights of a white storeowner by boycotting his business because he had served on a jury that cleared the sheriff who had shot a black man three times in the neck at point - blank range.

Still, in a speech at the end of the boycott, he showed no bitterness or taste for revenge.