Sentences with phrase «boycotts against»

However, attempts to launch boycotts against Sean Hannity have largely failed, and he remains Fox's top - rated personality.

It's evidence that the numerous boycotts against BP that have been orchestrated across the nation are indeed having a very distinct, very significant impact.

It's evidence that the numerous boycotts against BP that have been orchestrated across the nation are indeed having a very distinct,

And I've supported boycotts against sweatshops, abusive farming practices, and military occupations.

1984 - Los Angeles The Soviet Union, and 13 Soviet Allies, boycotted the games in response to boycotts against the 1980 Moscow Olympics

Every year around this time, there is a common refrain in some circles of Christianity that calls for boycotts against private companies that do not use the term «Christmas» in displays, advertising and interactions between customers and employees.

Numbers like these could motivate major corporations and Bruce Springsteen to call for angry boycotts against the LGB movement if reason and consistency were applied to such things.

Wall Street has started to rethink its close ties with gun makers, especially since the shooting in Parkland, Fla., in February that left 17 people dead and touched off a series of protests and boycotts against companies linked to the firearms industry.

Munoz is under pressure to contain a torrent of bad publicity and calls for boycotts against United unleashed by videos that captured Dao «s rough treatment by airline and airport security staff.

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.

Critics of Trump's father, President Donald Trump, have called for boycotts against dozens of retailers for carrying Trump - branded products.

Hogg retaliated by launching an online boycott against her advertisers.

Egypt want a religious boycott against Jews?

The petition also calls for a boycott against the chain.

Remember how you responded to the boycott against JC Penny over Ellen?

The boycott against Starbucks for their decision to hire 10,000 refugees is already underway.

Do you suppose Ava would mount an 18 + - year boycott against learning, solely because her mother was her teacher?

The irony for Nestle is that this event has probably rejuvenated the boycott against them.

Because of the ongoing boycott against Nestle and the constant bad publicity it receives because of the baby bottle crisis, the company is very concerned with creating a positive public image for itself.

Top photo via Wikipedia The Parkland students continue to amaze — just today, I read about how David Hogg launched an advertiser boycott against conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham in the few HOURS after she mocked his rejection from some of his college choices.

It is inexcusable that Tony Avella wanted to rename a street after Robert (Sonny) Carson, the convicted kidnapper and racial antagonist who lead the boycott against Asian American store owners.

«It's very simple: If you boycott against Israel, New York will boycott you,» the governor said before marching up 5th Avenue in the Celebrate Israel Parade.

If you don't like a certain broadcasters you can run a boycott against the companies that spend the most money on the broadcaster.

... If you boycott against Israel, New York will boycott you,» Cuomo said at an event in Midtown this morning where he signed the executive order.

The public outcry over Carl Paladino's published remarks about the Obamas is growing, with calls for a boycott against his businesses and a renewed call for his ouster from the Buffalo School Board.

An unenforced boycott against Elsevier journals has been running for years in the United Kingdom, though with little impact, and some universities have tried to play hardball.

Last month, a group of over 50 AI scientists, including those from UC Berkeley and the Max Planck Institute, signed an open letter to the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), announcing a boycott against the university due to its recent partnership with South Korea's largest defense company, Hanwha System, to open a Research Center for the Convergence of National Defense and Artificial Intelligence, which will aim to «develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to be applied to military weapons, joining the global competition to develop autonomous arms.»

After a few controversies over their plus size collection, among them a boycott against the store because they failed to include extended sizes, Target redeemed itself.

That action resulted in a long boycott against the buses in Montgomery lasting 381 days and led to a Supreme Court action which overturned such discrimination laws.

Continue reading Teachers and Parents of Puerto Rico Launch Historic Strike & Boycott against Standardized Testing: «We want a just, equitable world for our children.»

He describes briefly the bookseller boycott against Amazon's trade imprint headed by Larry Kirshbaum (who has since left Amazon), but he has little to say about the wide range of Amazon's other publishing activities and its growing number of imprints.

More than a year ago, members of Defend Boyle Heights and the Boyle Heights Alliance Against Artwashing and Displacement (B.H.A.A.A.D.) launched a boycott against all galleries in Boyle Heights, and organized a series of public actions against the growing number of galleries in Boyle Heights, including 356 Mission.

As is noted at NoCapAndTrade.com, Coca - Cola is a target of a boycott against companies who support cap and trade legislation, or the proposed Copenhagen climate treaty (which is designed to implement global cap and trade regulations of carbon dioxide).

The artificial intelligence researchers hail from almost 30 different countries and are calling for a boycott against the South Korean university.

A pet - food company is pulling its ads from Laura Ingraham's show after a Parkland shooting survivor called for a boycott against brands that advertise on the host's Fox News program.

Social media users on Twitter have called for a boycott against the NRA and against some of their remaining partners.

Not exact matches

One of the most famous corporate boycotts was launched against Nestle in 1977 because of the Swiss food giant's marketing of infant formula in low - income countries - a practice which arguably continues today.

Rupert, the 86 - year - old patriarch of the clan, was initially said to be unwilling to get rid of O'Reilly, despite a growing advertiser boycott fueled by news of multiple sexual harassment claims against the Fox host.

In January, a #DeleteUber boycott erupted on Twitter after some users accused the tech company of trying to profit from a taxi driver protest against President Donald Trump's immigration ban.

(Sure, a bunch of people will give up using FedEx — one of the few major companies to hold its ground against the boycott — but are they really going to boycott two dozen companies, and suffer that much disruption of your consumption habits?

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.

Faced with boycott threats from giant businesses, including Nike, Apple, Angie's List and Salesforce.com, Indiana's Governor Mike Pence has vowed to alter the language of a controversial, religious freedom bill he signed into law just last week, to ensure businesses can't use it to discriminate against LGBT customers.

Still, Khodorkovsky is urging people to «get off the couch» and vote next month, arguing against a boycott like that suggested by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Now, the survivors of the Florida school shooting are taking a stand against gun violence in a big way — and their efforts have spawned a boycott of the NRA.

She already boycotted B.C. wine — she could launch a similar campaign against tourism or other industries.

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.

Wikileaks has stated that they will be leading a campaign against Coinbase next week which will focus on boycotting Coinbase, calling it an unfit member of the cryptocurrency community.

Hogg recently told NBC News reporter Kerry Sanders that his boycott fight with Ingraham was just a «practice round» for the bigger battle against the right, the National Rifle Association (NRA), and pro-Second Amendment politicians.

A similar boycott effort took off against Fox News host Laura Ingraham after she mocked Hogg for not getting into four colleges.

I think by boycotting and lashing out against them, gays and lesbians are doing the very thing they claim to be victims of, which means their behavior is no better than those they oppose.