Sentences with phrase «economic boycott»
"Economic boycott" refers to a strategy where people, usually a group or community, intentionally stop buying goods or services from a person, business, or country to express their disagreement, send a message, or bring about change in their policies or practices. Full definition
Carey abandoned the use of sugar as a sort of personal economic boycott of the slave trade.
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One week after Mr Kenyatta was declared winner of that second election, Mr Odinga announced a plan of economic boycott reminiscent of that against apartheid South Africa.
A similar law enacted about a year ago in North Carolina prompted the relocation of sporting events and economic boycotts that were estimated to have cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars.
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.
They could, for example, threaten an economic boycott of the kosher certification that pays for so many Edah Haredit activities.
As long as we continue to club the other Presbyterians into submission with constitutional amendments, judicial cases and economic boycotts, we have no word for a world full of murderous divisions, most of them cloaked in religion.
As long as Presbyterians continue to club the other into submission with constitutional amendments, judicial cases and economic boycotts, we have no word for a world full of murderous divisions, most of them cloaked in religion.
Members of the Bethel High football team have refused to talk to reporters, and some black leaders have contemplated an economic boycott against local merchants and the media.
Therefore, we will organize the distribution of leaflets, mass rallies, forums, civil disobedience, petitions, referendums, web - based actions, economic boycotts, and other grassroots tactics.
But rather than crumble in the face of an economic boycott, says Gregory A. Christi, the school's principal, administrators tried to impress upon protesters the benefits of good nutrition and physical fitness.