Sentences with phrase «boycott began»

techrepublic.com - After a boycott began with more than 50 researchers, KAIST said it has no intention to build «killer robots.»

The boycott began on Aug. 19, the first day of school, after religious leaders in the community encouraged parents to...

During my first year there, a 6 - month, nationwide school boycott began.

King just happened to be on the scene in Montgomery, Alabama, when the bus boycott began — a young preacher newly come to town.

Before the boycott began, YouTube's ad revenue after subtracting commissions was expected to rise 26 percent this year to $ 7 billion, based on estimates from the research firm eMarketer.

As those boycotts began to circulate on social media channels, thousands on Twitter began to circulate a #BoycottPepsi hashtag.

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.

thats it im done i will no longer watch arsenal untill that dictator leaves this club soo sick of it absolute sick, wenger you are not a legend you have been a failure and you deserve no statue or a stand named after you get lost get out of this club you dictator, boycott begins now!

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Soon after, European Union countries began organizing boycotts, because one of SodaStream's 22 manufacturing facilities is located in the West Bank.

Many of the departures have been blamed on the company's current PR mess, which began in January with the #DeleteUber boycott over accusations that the company tried to profit from a taxi driver strike against President Trump's immigration ban.

Major US advertisers soon began to boycott the online ad giant too, and according to The Times, the money pulled amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars.

More than 250 brands have reportedly frozen all their campaigns with Google aside from search, after the issue — which first seemed isolated to the UK — spread globally as major US advertisers began to boycott the online ad giant too.

It has been one week since the Alberta Government began its great BC wine boycott and supplies of Okanagan wine are closer to running dry in Alberta's privately owned liquor stores.

As the dispute heated up, Chinese consumers began boycotting Japanese products.

If through consumer boycotts and other mechanisms publishers and booksellers begin to feel the pinch, it is the pinch of democracy in action.

the Blacks of Montgomery began their boycott of the city buses.

Some vigilante groups, tired of promises and no action by the broadcasting industry, began to take matters into their own hands by initiating boycotts and urging the passage of censorship laws in communities and states.

After 9 - 11 I began attempting to boycott anything that has and will ever come out of the Middle East, which includes Judaism Catholiscism, Islam, oil and sand.

Beginning with the Moral Majority in the early 1980s, a number of groups have sprung up that appeal to Christians to join in boycotts of «offensive» words, pictures, stories and so on appearing on TV and in other media.

Her main source of income — songwriting royalties — has tumbled since North American megachurches have begun to boycott the use of her songs.

Also, some vigilante groups, tired of promises and no action by the broadcasting industry, began to take matters into their own hands by initiating boycotts and urging the passage of censorship laws in communities and states.

The Boycott will be promoted and publicized until such time as Nestlé is forced to change its marketing practices and begins to act ethically.

Graff also said he and other non-resident dog - park users have begun boycotting Glen Ellyn businesses.

An email - writing campaign began, a boycott was organized, and the ad agency that had created the -LSB-...]

Nestlé had previously faced a boycott, beginning in the U.S. but soon spreading through the rest of the world, for marketing practices in the third world (see Nestlé boycott).

«We have been grateful for the support of Methodist Church members for the boycott campaign over the years and the interest officials have given this issue, but it was obvious to us from the beginning that the investment strategy would be exploited by Nestlé and so it has proved.

The boycott and disinvestment sanction call was only five years ago and it's beginning to build up.

A Miami police union is urging a nationwide boycott by law enforcement labor organizations of Beyoncé's forthcoming world tour, which is slated to begin in the city April 27 at Marlins Park.

New York State United Teachers has begun organizing a plan to encourage parents to boycott the standardized tests that would be half of the basis for the new teacher evaluations.

I remember the first day of the boycotts clearly: They began the same day as the exhibition of my science project, which, of course, I had worked very hard on.

Long understood to deliver performance issues despite being sold to developers as a near - flawless, uncrackable tool, many players have begun to boycott games utilizing the controversial software - namely for the stigma attached to the idea that all PC players are rampant software pirates.

Spike Lee, Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith boycotted the ceremony, while t he hashtag #OscarsSoWhite began trending for a second year when nominations were announced.

A boycott of advance screenings of Disney movies began to gather steam over the weekend, after the L.A. Times announced on Friday that its review of Thor: Ragnarok would not appear in that day's print edition because its critics had been barred from seeing it.

Tens of thousands of students across the country began last week by staying out of school to join a nationwide boycott, organized mostly by Latinos, to oppose federal proposals that would crack down on illegal immigration.

The Los Angeles teachers union president said Sunday he was organizing a «massive boycott» of The Times after the newspaper began publishing a series of articles that uses student test scores to estimate the effectiveness of district teachers.

A lesson on segregation, the bus boycott and the beginning of the civil rights movement.

Subsequent chapters cover Parks's childhood, her marriage, the year - long bus boycott that culminated in the 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregation on public transportation, and the beginning of the civil rights movement.

The incident sparked a boycott of the municipal bus system that is now viewed as the beginning of the modern civil rights movement.

In January, teachers at Garfield High School began a boycott of the test, saying it was wasteful and being used unfairly to assess their performance.

Recycling success: Two years ago, 2nd - graders at Old Kings Elementary School in Flagler Beach began a recycling campaign for plastic and later boycotted disposable plastic lunch trays.

in the rain at Spa in 1966 and being trapped in his fuel - dripping BRM for about thirty minutes, Stewart began lobbying for safer cars and tracks, leading driver boycotts, and compelling improvements that we now take for granted.

South Shore Public Libraries in Nova Scotia, Canada, have begun to boycott eBooks published by Random House.

On a popular Kindle online forum thread titled, «Boycott anything over $ 9.99,» more than 1,200 posts on the subject of high - priced e-books have appeared since the beginning of the year, with many more comments posted since the Kindle 2 e-book reader began shipping on Sunday.

Why and When I Will Begin Boycotting the HWA (Brian Keene) Profoundly disturbing story about some of the goings on with the Horror Writers Association.

Three years after a boycott was begun by Venice Unchained as part of a campaign to keep chain stores off Abbot Kinney Blvd., Pinkberry, at 1410 AKB, has thrown in the towel.

APGNation: Do you think that gaming news sites will change if gamers begin to boycott those they feel are not ethical or reliable?

These latter works included Decide to Boycott Women — in which she ignored women, from 1971 until her death in 1999, as a way to expose gender relations — as well as Dropout Piece (begun c. 1970), which initiated Lozano's permanent exit from the art world.

A self - proclaimed dropout of the art world, Lozano rejected the commerciality of the art scene by committing an act of defiance, in four parts: General Strike Piece, a performance that began in February 1969 as a protest to the banality of the existing artistic atmosphere; Decide to Boycott Women, a twenty - seven year hiatus from contact with her female supporters, including artists, gallerists, and critics, begun in August 1971; Dialogue Piece, an invitation to dialogue that blurred the roles between artist as sender and viewer as receiver.

But if we can find ways to trade good ideas, and not just engage China cynically, as some argue it is engaging Africa — we might begin to have an Olympian impact that means more than any boycott.

On 1st July 2015 many Criminal solicitors across the country began an indefinite boycott of Legal Aid work to demonstrate their opposition to the imposition of an 8.75 % cut in the rates of Legal Aid.