Sentences with phrase «form of boycotting»

However, the results of the ComRes poll also suggest any tax gains from the use of contrived offshore arrangements could be partially offset by consumer anger in the form of boycotts.

Today, Liu's office released a statement in support of «some form of boycott,» and, echoing Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, drew parallels to the boycotts that took place over South African apartheid.

Not exact matches

They're boycotting companies that do business with the NRA, and in most cases this means companies that provide benefits to NRA members in the form of things like discounts on purchases or cash - back NRA - branded credit cards.

Although typically portrayed as sending a message, boycotts actually send their message through brute force: they are — if and when they work — a form of bullying.

It will boycott advertisements on ICO tokens, trades, or wallets from March 28 — and this news saw the costs of all the primary digital forms of money slide by and by.

In part because although liberation rhetoric has increased in the form of statements, resolutions, protests, pickets and boycotts, church - people are not effectively engaged with social ills or with the poor.

It is said, «Wherever those ruling threaten to repress those ruled, wherever institutions threaten persons, and wherever might oppresses right, we are obliged to resist — whenever possible non-violently».15 It is also true that boycotts and economic embargoes are a form of violence and can cause considerable suffering.

Ironic that it was the Christian right that intiated commercial boycotts as a form of expression a few decades ago.

The more action - minded engage in strikes, boycotts, and other forms of protest, with occasional outbreaks of violence.

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The absolute boycott of this iconic event in Asanteman by leadership of the NPP under Nana Akufo - Addo is believe to be the highest form of disdain ever shown against the hospitable people of Asanteman and the Manyhia Palace.

The Supreme Court in its 1982 NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. decision recognized boycotts as a First Amendment form of protected free speech.

But boycotting The Sun is a disastrous tactic, the worst form of gesture politics.

More than half (59 percent) have taken some form of action in the past year, including 28 percent who signed a petition and 15 percent who boycotted a company or product in response to its social or political views or actions.

Some of these meat eating converts view buying grassfed beef and other sustainably raised animal foods as a new form of activism similar to their boycott of factory farmed meats when they were vegetarians.

Another was having Dr. Mark «McSteamy» Sloan's [Eric Dane] behavior prompt both a boycott of his surgeries by all the nurses, and the required filling out and signing — by every hospital employee — of a form in which they divulged the names of every hospital employee with whom they had had sex.

According to Richard Kluger, author of a history of the Brown case entitled Simple Justice, the boycotting parents rallied behind Bishop's leadership and formed the Consolidated Parents group, whose ranks included my mother and her close friends Marie Smith (my friend Alonzo's mother) and Burma Whitted.

At Garfield — the site of a 2013 testing boycott led by teachers that gained national attention — student - government leaders visited classrooms to explain that the test was not required for graduation for juniors, and that students could fill out a refusal form at the school counseling office at any time.

Any boycott of tests, which would amount to a form of industrial action, would require a ballot of members of both the ATL and NUT once they have amalgamated to form the National Education Union in September.

This team of dedicated educators forming the Garfield High School Assessment Committee was born out of the MAP test boycott last school year, which resulted in the Seattle School District backing away from its threat of suspending the boycotting teachers and ultimately — a year ago this month — forced the district to make the test optional at the high school level.

For their own personal reasons, Rosina and Erin feel equally deeply about Lucy's tragedy, so they form an anonymous group of girls at Prescott High to resist the sexist culture at their school, which includes boycotting sex of any kind with the male students.

Academics had tried boycotts, forming their own journals, and lobbying governments, but the power and profits of the big publishers were undaunted.

It is a horrific, barbaric industry that unfortunately still thrives across Asia and Africa, a form of animal abuse that is so egregiously cruel, I am amazed that animal activists aren't engaging in more boycott campaigns or live demonstrations than they already are, demanding an end a gruesome industry that has absolutely no place in our 21st century.

The launch of the Turner Prize at Tate Britain in central London was initially boycotted by photographers after they were asked to sign a form which said they could not publish any images or words which would «result in any adverse publicity» for the Tate.

The launch of the annual Turner Prize at Tate Britain, in central London, was initially boycotted by photographers, after they were asked to sign a form which said they could not publish any images or words which would «result in any adverse publicity» for the Tate.

Our employment lawyers have obtained injunctions and have instituted suits for damages and other relief for struck employers and have counseled employers faced with boycotts, slowdowns, union organization and other forms of union activity.