Sentences with phrase «of a boycott»

Nestlé is the target of a boycott because of its systematic violations of baby milk marketing rules.

That last one unleashed protests, angry rallies and threats of boycotts by religious demonstrators who felt the film, which was directed by Martin Scorsese was blasphemous.

There were rumors of a boycott of a State of the State speech, which would have left embarrassingly empty seats.

With some BVB supporters not attending the away game as part of a boycott against «test - tube clubs», there's a certain level of intrigue surrounding what form of protest the fans will deliver in the home leg.

Aside from the concerns over L'Oreal's record on animal testing and other ethical issues, the cosmetic giant is part - owned by Nestlé, the target of a boycott over its aggressive marketing of baby milks.

After calling some police officers «murderers» in a rally protesting police brutality, Tarantino and his movie «The Hateful Eight» became the target of a boycott by police unions across the country.

Evangelist and humanitarian Franklin Graham isn't new to controversy, and Baptists aren't new to the idea of boycotting things.

However that picture was taken because beautiful fresh produce was brought in on the day of the boycott by a very fancy produce provider here in Chicago.

No author can afford the kind of boycott Keith Smith is suggesting.

Amazon has been the subject of a boycott call from Ethical Consumer for over two years due to its tax avoidance.

Still, in a speech at the end of the boycott, he showed no bitterness or taste for revenge.

The company, which is the target of a boycott for unethical baby milk marketing practices around the world, is trying to divert attention from this, while presenting itself as an expert on protein.

Of course, there was no avoiding politics, and that day also featured the declaration of a boycott against the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi project, spurred by a Human Rights Watch report on the exploitation of labor.

Nestlé is the target of an international boycott, and emails from thousands of boycott supporters have prompted changes, such as a promise to stop a claim that its formula is «The new «Gold Standard» in infant nutrition».

Nearly 80,000 public school students in 100 districts across Long Island refused yesterday to take the state mathematics exam given in grades three through eight, in a fifth straight year of boycotts driven by opposition to the Common Core tests, according to a Newsday survey.

Which is a deeply pointless form of boycotting.

Senate Republicans say they will break a long standing tradition of boycotting the election of new Regents.

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.

A threat of a boycott after the director branded cops as killers.

Some have even talked of boycotting Cuomo's annual State of the State presentation in protest.

In the late 1960s, he stood outside grocery stores, protesting Gallo wines in support of the boycott on table grapes.

But I also follow the ups and downs of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign, which since 2004, when the Presbyterian Church USA voted to divest from companies doing business with Israel, has become popular among some Christian groups.

I know you're going to come back with «it's the only way to get Wenger out» Jon but I don't like the idea of boycotting games.

Supporters of the boycott at several UK universities started to protest at Nestlé appearing on campus for graduate recruitments, arguing if it wanted access to campus it should debate with Baby Milk Action.

Just last year, Nestlé said it had discontinued a leaflet claiming its formula is «The new «Gold Standard» in infant nutrition» after receiving emails from thousands of boycott supporters.

Nestlé has stopped some of its more outrageous marketing strategies after these have been exposed as part of the boycott campaign.

I am 30 years old and I've never heard of any boycott.

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

Sinn Féin won seven seats in the election but Corbyn would not be able to rely on the support of those MPs as the party will continue its historical policy of boycotting Westminster.

There were rumors of a boycott of a State of the State speech, which would leave embarrassingly empty seats.

Unfortunately I read that Old Navy is on the list of boycotting using «Christmas» for advertising.

The store has attempted to force the protesters to leave by calling the police but to no avail — this group of experienced activists has had consultations with attorneys about their legal rights to assemble for the purposes of boycotting a store.

The Avon and Revlon boycott campaigns were waged only months before the arrival of computerized inventory tracking enabled businesses to track sales fluctuations accurately enough to see if a declaration of boycott actually had an effect.

Many of the boycotting parents said they never applied to change their child's program because they felt intimidated by the school bureaucracy.

Fear of boycott made him publish anonymously, and this redoubled the book's punch.

The cost of the boycotts to Pampered Chef's kitchen consultants was so great that Berkshire discontinued its shareholder charitable contribution program, with Buffett commenting that he wouldn't continue a program, even one with merit, that hurt the livelihoods of company employees.

SPI Group, which distributes Stolichnaya vodka in the United States, got caught in the cross-hairs of a boycott that went viral last week.

And I'd like to think we all agree with Kevin Johnson, that these incidents are reprehensible — but I can also very much appreciate why even people who like Starbucks a lot can find the idea of a boycott very tempting.

This story of boycott and counter-boycott actually started last year when a group led by Forest Ethics and Corporate Ethics International called for a boycott of Alberta tourism.

The completely divergent stances echoed the diplomatic chaos we saw earlier this week when the president departed sharply from the lines that Tillerson and the US ambassador to Qatar took in the immediate aftermath of the boycott.

And it could still repair its image with consumers, who often don't stick to pledges of a boycott.

Indeed, as a reflection of consumer sentiment in the US, the message of the boycott (together with other aspects of the anti-oil sands campaign) IS being heard by decision - makers in Alberta for what it is — a threat to the Alberta economy, which remains heavily dependent on the oil and gas industry.

With rumblings of boycotts of the NFL and / or its sponsors because of the National Anthem flap, could this be a concern?