Sentences with phrase «boycott in»

It and alleged that the practices of the Board, mainly requirements (3) and (4), constituted a group boycott in violation of the state antitrust act.

In Market Force v. Wauwatosa Realty, the court held that the other brokers» actions were «independent» and that «conscious parallel» activity did not constitute a group boycott in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Apparently, unable to squeeze any cash out of a lawsuit against a restaurant owner who banned Simpson from his establishment or from sales of his book, If I Did It (which many consumers may boycott in deference to Nicole Brown's sister), Simpson devised another scheme: a private sting operation to recover what Simpson claims is his personal memorabilia from a dealer who had acquired it.

In the months that followed, LaBudde worked with the Earth Island Institute and the Marine Mammal Fund to launch the most successful consumer boycott in U.S. history.

A brilliant strategist, he first demonstrated the efficacy of passive resistance in 1955, when he led the prolonged bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, that resulted in the dismantling of bus segregation laws.

A brilliant strategist, King first demonstrated the power of passive resistance in 1955, while helping to lead the prolonged bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, that succeeded in the dismantling bus segregation laws.

The idea in the Kindle community that Macmillan is playing some unique game here, and therefore should be punished via boycott in favor of the other five publishers among the big six, is almost certainly an error.

Barnes & Noble announced its boycott in January 2012, casting the move as a retaliatory strike against Amazon's actions in the e-book market.

Alfie Kohn reported that a boycott in Japan compelled that government to drop a set of national tests.

And a boycott in Britain caused the government to overhaul though not end its testing, but the battle did not end there.

The proposed changes have been welcomed by teaching unions, but many school leaders believe they do not adequately address problems with key stage 2 tests, which last year caused stress and anxiety among pupils and prompted a boycott in several regions.

During the 2012 - 2013 public school year, actions against high - stakes tests included a successful teachers strike in Chicago, an effective boycott in Seattle, student walkouts in Denver and Portland, demonstrations in Providence and opt - out movements in dozens of communities.

These lessons help students put in perspective events such as the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, and school integration in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Then, there is also the incident in Illinois back in 1839 when young Abraham Lincoln, when first elected to public office, joined in a momentary legislative boycott in Illinois, which was quickly put to rest.

Eighth graders suffered through five to seven different tests at the end of the 2000 - 01 school year, which caused a boycott in Scarsdale and an outcry in some other districts.

You should come away from an Awards wanting to do better next time, not wanting to boycott them in future!

Rees revealed that he spent an evening with the civil rights campaigner Paul Stephenson, who organised the Bristol bus boycott in the 1960s that resulted incampaigners overturning a ban on people from minority ethnic backgrounds working on the city's buses.

It was the largest such test boycott in the nation's history.

The report noted that to make the election possible, voter education is imperative on the part of the political parties and INEC in order to avoid voter apathy and total boycott in the forthcoming governorship election in the state.

In spring 2015, an estimated 200,000 students statewide — more than 70,000 of them on Long Island — refused to take state tests in English and math, the largest such boycott in the nation.

Following a boycott of the December 1992 Parliamentary elections by the main opposition party, the New Patriotic Party, under allegations of malpractices in the presidential, there was a decision to hold both elections on the same day so as to be able to prevent a similar boycott in the future.

Or would the reaction among northern, working class voters being fucked over more closely mirror The Sun's defamatory coverage of the Hillsborough disaster, where the boycott in Merseyside is still going strong after 25 years, and looks good for another 25?

Sen. Craig Johnson today leaped to the defense of a business in his Nassau County district, The Arizona Beverage Co., which is the target of a misdirected boycott in opposition to the state of Arizona's new law targeting illegal immigrants.

«Let us hope Mr. Clooney will be prompted to investigate this issue and support the boycott in future to keep up the pressure on Nestlé to change.»

The URC Assembly restated its support for the Nestlé boycott in July 2010.

The boycott was re-launched in 1988 as Nestlé failed to abide by commitments made that led to the end of the first boycott in 1984.

The United Reformed Church Assembly renewed its support for the Nestlé boycott in July 2010.

Baby Milk Action, which promotes the boycott in the UK, has put a four - point - plan to Nestlé to save lives and ultimately end the boycott, but this has been rejected by Nestlé.

Organisations such as Ethical Consumer include the fact that Nestlé is the target of a boycott in their assessments of products.

You can download a Nestlé - Free Zone poster and other posters from our archive site to promote the boycott in your locality.

Baby Milk Action promotes the boycott in the UK and is the secretariat for the International Nestlé Boycott Committee (INBC), involving groups that promote the boycott in other countries.

So, by all means, join in Gracie's boycott in the short term if you wish.

Last week, Eng updated the story, reporting that the Roosevelt students staged an impressive boycott in which over 900 kids spurned school lunch, instead eating granola, fruit and yogurt provided by outside supporters of their efforts.

The boycott in fact ended in 1984, but was reinstated in 1988 because Nestle did not live up to the promises it made.

Recalling a particularly frustrating negotiation around the bus boycott in Montgomery, Dr. King wrote that «on two or three occasions I had allowed myself to become angry and indignant.

In October, the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, was in its 11th month.

From an unknown Baptist preacher leading a bus boycott in 1955, he became, just nine years later, the acknowledged moral leader of our country, standing in the oval office of the White House for the signing of the historic Civil Rights Act.

Hogg urged an advertiser boycott in response.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Rockies, the Horgan NDP appeared mightily befuddled when Notley erupted with fury and wine boycotts in response to what the B.C.ers professed was a reasonable concern for their coastlines.

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Public school districts across Long Island and the state are bracing for what many educators and parents expect to be a fifth consecutive year of Common Core test boycotts in grades three through eight, even as eight districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties and dozens elsewhere introduce computerized versions of the exams.

In the Buffalo area, boycotts in local districts ranged from 49 percent to 71 percent, and in Rochester the refusal rate was about 29 percent, according to news reports.

In O'Riordan v. Long Island Board of REALTORS ®, the district court addressed tying arrangements and group boycotts in the context of requiring Board membership to participate in a MLS.

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But the steady stream of Twitter users supporting the boycott suggests it's growing in numbers each minute.

It's unknown how widespread the boycott will be on Thursday and whether it will do enough to put a dent in the companies» revenue that day.

The company, which reported quarterly earnings late Thursday, said the arrests, which were followed by protests and calls to boycott Starbucks, have not had a noticeable impact on sales so far in April.

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.»

The US has long had anti-Iran sanctions in place, and recently persuaded the EU, a crucial customer for Iran, to launch a boycott of its oil and other products.

We won't know until it's over, but PyeongChang has the potential to be the most politicized Olympics since 1980's Summer Olympics in Moscow (sometimes dubbed the «Soviet Olympics») during which 66 countries, led by the United States, boycotted.

But The Irish Times editorialized in favor of attending, saying, «no matter how gratifying to our sense of moral superiority, a boycott will be seen as a lost opportunity for face time with the world's most important leader.»