Sentences with phrase «most of the boycott»

Ibrahim said, «The INEC officials could not explain properly why they are collecting N200 and for that reason alone, most of us boycotted the registration exercise.»

CLA past president Frank Addario, who led the association through most of the boycott, says a walkout was the only way to force government action.

Not exact matches

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.»

What do you get when a company combines one of the most beautiful women in the world with volatile politics, threats of a boycott, and warring ideologies?

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.

PepsiCo's most recent Facebook page post is the target of numerous boycott calls.

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.

Despite the West Coast clashes, most nationwide protests were peaceful as immigrants, union members and their allies staged a series of strikes, boycotts and marches to highlight the contributions of immigrants in the United States.

In the days following the boycott most of the major North American and European churches expected the official German church to issue a statement condemning the Nazi policies.

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.

John Kennedy repeatedly appointed segregationist judges to the federal bench in the South, and the civil rights case that Robert Kennedy most vigorously prosecuted involved charges brought against Albany, Georgia, activists for violating the rights of a white storeowner by boycotting his business because he had served on a jury that cleared the sheriff who had shot a black man three times in the neck at point - blank range.

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.

Although my boys are in a finicky stage lately, boycotting most of the things I make (even dessert!)

If you don't listen to the voice of those who paid the most expensive season ticket you scumbag charged then we have the right to even calls for total boycott on merchandise and season tickets.

It doesn't seem that he gives a rat's ass what supporters think, unless maybe attendance takes a serious dive and hurts his cash flow, but I'm afraid fan boycotts might just have neutrals or casually interested parties buying most of the tickets back.

Unconvinced by the transparent attempt to engineer a Ferrari victory, most of the British teams and drivers boycotted the event.

Proposed rules for the 1981 season had led to FOCA (which represented most of the grid) instructing its drivers to boycott the mandatory driver briefings at the Belgian and Monaco Grands Prix.

-LSB-...] for more than 30 years and Nestlé is still one of the three most boycotted companies in Britain.

The Nestlé boycott has prompted some changes and admissions, but more pressure is needed as Nestlé continues to defend the colourful logos it has added to labels and most of the promotional material containing misleading claims.

Nestlé, the UK's most boycotted company over its marketing of baby milk, is trying to improve its image by sponsoring the London Marathon on Sunday 17 April 2011 with its «Pure Life» bottled water brand, but is also attracting criticism over the impact of its bottled water operation.

Campaign supporters have made Nestlé the most boycotted company in the UK and one of the four most boycotted on the planet.

Even Nestlé's Global Public Affairs Manager, Dr. Gayle Crozier Willi, acknowledged in April this year that Nestlé is «widely boycotted» after an independent poll found it to be one of the four most boycotted brands on the planet.

That code, in turn, had been prompted by public support of an international boycott of the products of the company that seemed most culpable 30 years ago: Nestlé.

According to the Wall Street Journal, «UNICEF remains captive to a clutch of activists who have been leading boycotts and protests against the baby formula makers since the 1970s on the highly spurious grounds that the companies trying to supply better nutrition «exploit» the poor... If the toll of African AIDS babies continues to rise, the credibility of one of the most beloved UN agencies may sink.»

One of the most vivid story what happens if the Russians are not using its veto power to cover up the «North Korean» aggression, is maybe January 1950, when the «Soviet» Russia's representatives boycotted UN meetings.

But turnout was only 23 %, as most of the population boycotted the vote; essentially the only group that didn't call for a boycott were those who wanted to become a state.

Most of New York's Democratic lawmakers plan to attend a controversial address next month by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before a joint session of Congress despite announcements by some Democrats that they will boycott the speech.

(Most of New York's Democratic lawmakers plan to attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address before Congress next month, which some Democrats have said they'll boycott because they see it as an end run around the White House.

Most libertarians I've talked to view the portions of the Civil Rights Act that coerce the actions of individuals or their use of private property to be a ill - guided and would rather people «vote with their wallets» (e.g. by boycotting racist businesses.)

Although about a third of House Democrats are boycotting the inauguration, most upstate House members will be there.

It's unknown whether the retreat from the most controversial effects of the Common Core standards will quell a boycott movement that led to one fifth of students skipping the third through eighth grade standardized tests earlier this year.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- A Wisconsin judge on Thursday did what thousands of pro-union protesters and boycotting Democratic lawmakers couldn't, forcing Republican Gov. Scott Walker to halt plans to implement a law that would strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights and cut their pay.

Meanwhile, most of the teachers in the surrounding schools have boycotted classes in solidarity with their colleagues in the school.

Maku said that most opposition parties boycotted local government elections in the states because of the lack of transparency and trust in members of the commissions.

But it was also something else: the boycott was one of the most important and influential actions taken by Aspen Skiing Company that year.

There is a burgeoning sports boycott, which most recently campaigned against the decision of European football's governing body UEFA to stage its Under 21 tournament in Israel.

Most of the world's countries have agreed a treaty to ban nuclear weapons, but with the nuclear powers boycotting it, will it make a difference?

One of the most powerful tools available in a grassroots movements ~ and that has proven effective in the past ~ is boycotting a product or company that is using questionable or unethical practices.

Thirty years later, it is crystal clear that it has done nothing to stop them, even though they are still one of the most boycotted brands in the world.

Workers, peasants, probably most of them illiterate kept the industry of the country together despite attacks including international boycotts and terrorist acts from the fascists.

Michael B. Jordan and Marvels Black Panther is trending because Michael is dating a White girl and a number of Black women and some men want to boycott the most anticipated movie of 2018 because he is dating outside of his race lol.

I know of a few people who boycotted the fest, but most members of the AD / FF community reacted to the drama by speaking up and showing support for ALL members of the «family» with buttons and ribbons that read «We are ALL Fantastic.»

Once you know the history of standardized tests in public schools, you can never fall for Coleman's absurd assertion that, «boycotting standardized tests may seem like a good idea, but hurts black learners most.»

Most may know something about the March on Washington, Bloody Sunday, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

Despite the preponderance of evidence that much of Spain no longer supports bullfighting, if it ever did, and that the pro — bullfighting position of the Popular Party does not represent the Spanish people, one of the most prominent, accomplished, and justly respected longtime animal advocates in Oklahoma responded to the ANIMALS 24 - 7 coverage by recommending a boycotting of all Spanish trade and tourism.

In this week's installment of one of TheExpeditioner.com's most popular and closely followed recurring columns, «Frommer Watch,» we find the godfather of globe - trotting in his daily blog calling for a boycott of travel to Burma in the wake of that country's ruling military junta's recent trial of pro-democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Bruce Johnson is obsessed with painting arrest photos of civil rights advocates from the mid-50's in Montgomery, Alabama, most of them from the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Cartoonists and graphic novelists called for a boycott of the Angoulême International Comics Festival, because no women were nominated for France's most prestigious comics prize.

The most recent large - scale manifestation of the cultural boycott of Israel took place at the São Paulo Biennial in Brazil in September 2014.

Bluefin Boycott Help the Center save one of the world's most magnificent, unique and threatened fish by pledging not to eat bluefin tuna and spreading the word about its peril.