Sentences with phrase «example of a boycott»

Another example of a boycott undermining a referendum result happened in Romania in 2012, when the President has been suspended by the Parliament.

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It's something else entirely when the community responds to that news with knee - jerk reactions of name - calling, inflammatory accusations, and boycotts (Goose Island news, for example).

The movement is the latest example of American voters channeling their frustration into consumer boycotts when political action fails.

Another example of the unpredictable outcome of citizen economic action is the boycott Dr. Bob Jones III of Bob Jones University waged against General Motors Corporation for its sponsorship of «Jesus of Nazareth,» the Zeffirelli biblical epic on the NBC network.

Another example of the vagaries of boycott is the campaign waged against 7 - Eleven Stores by the Rev. Donald Wildmon and his organization, in an attempt to get the chain to remove Playboy and Penthouse magazines from their shelves.

Nestle has come under attack for violating the World Health Organization's International Code of Marketing of Breast - Milk Substitutes and has several boycotts of its products out there (water for example).

She asked what might happen if parents organized a boycott of objectionable meals and, for example, sent all their kids to school with a sack lunch on the day «Brunch for Lunch» was served.

This is yet another example of Nestlé placing its own interests over the health and wellbeing of infants and mothers, and is another excellent reason to boycott the company.

In other examples, it said it would stop claiming its formula is The new «Gold Standard» in infant nutrition after receiving thousands of emails from boycott supporters.

The above films and many other examples of media coverage over the years have come about because the boycott campaign puts Nestlé in the spotlight.

This boycott, like our amicus brief filing, is another example of Aspen Skiing Company's leverage strategy in action.

1For example the Boycott, Divestments, Sanctions Movement attempts this through people's consumption habits or the example of the Norwegian doctor, Mads Gilbert, who worked at a Gaza hospital during the bombing

For example, the Heartland Institute — or as I think of it, the Mos Eisley of think tanks — attacked the pope on his climate change stance, and even a Catholic congress person boycotted the pope's speech.

Indeed, an example of this is the boycott that law schools from Quebec have had by not requiring the LSAT because it is not available in French.

In just one example of many, a Facebook group has been set up to support a boycott of Kettle Foods, a UK chip (crisp?)

For example, an agreement among several real estate firms not to employ the services of a particular printer to produce marketing materials, or to refuse to purchase advertising in a certain publication, may be an unlawful boycott of this type.