Sentences with phrase «of a boycott by»

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.

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.

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.

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Amazon earned itself something of a public relations black eye as a result of the strong - arm negotiating tactics, causing a backlash among authors, many of whom backed a boycott of the online retailer that was led by television host Stephen Colbert.

O'Reilly complimented Hannity's handling of his own advertiser boycott earlier this year, saying Hannity «handled it better» by engaging and mobilizing his viewers.

Trump has done the same to Apple, dinging it on the making of its popular products outside of the U.S. And he also called for a boycott of Apple after it refused to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.

But the first of many boycotts against Nike was followed by corporate efforts at reform, and the company now has a history of holding suppliers to account and cutting off those that don't measure up.

Trump also called for a boycott of Apple following the company's refusal to aid the FBI in breaking encryption on the iPhone used by the San Bernadino shooter.

Rupert, the 86 - year - old patriarch of the clan, was initially said to be unwilling to get rid of O'Reilly, despite a growing advertiser boycott fueled by news of multiple sexual harassment claims against the Fox host.

In the days following election, numerous boycotts are floating around on both sides of the aisles as comments made by a number of executives win praise or condemnation taking some sort of stance as it relates to the election.

For one thing, the boycott is so diffuse — targeted as it is at dozens of companies — that little real impact can be expected to be felt by those companies, in terms of the bottom line.

The primary reason is, of all things, a commercial boycott, spearheaded by the student survivors of the recent Florida school massacre, and their supporters.

His confirmation for the role awaits a vote of the full Senate after an unusual and ultimately unsuccessful boycott by Democratic Senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee.

Trump called for a boycott of Apple products earlier this year after the company declined to provide the FBI with security - weakened software to help crack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.

The backlash from the incident resonated around the world, with social media users in the United States, China and Vietnam calling for boycotts of the No. 3 U.S. carrier by passenger traffic and an end to the practice of overbooking flights.

The growing boycott of YouTube by advertisers could cost its parent company Google as much as $ 750 million in revenue, according to one Wall Street investment firm.

Georgia Congressman Tom Price has been cleared as the next Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services after an ugly confirmation battle which included Senate Democrats boycotting his vote by a key panel (a tactic that was rendered useless as the majority Republicans changed committee rules to push his nomination forward).

Eleven companies so far have pulled their ads after a pushback by Parkland student David Hogg, 17, who called for a boycott of her advertisers.

After Apple declined to help the FBI crack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, Trump called for a national boycott of Apple products.

Munoz is under pressure to contain a torrent of bad publicity and calls for boycotts against United unleashed by videos that captured Dao «s rough treatment by airline and airport security staff.

As you've probably all heard by now (and as the Canadian Press reported last week) fruit company Chiquita has joined a boycott of fuel originating in Alberta's oilsands.

Lotte Mart wants to inject more than W400 billion in emergency funding into its supermarket chain in China, which has been hit hard by an unofficial boycott over the stationing of a Terminal High - Altitude Area Defense battery in Korea (US$ 1 = W1, 128).

NBC's «Saturday Night Live» poked fun at the recent advertiser boycott of Fox News host Laura Ingraham led by Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg.

The same opinion piece (by Ezra Levant) pointed out that many of the companies participating in the boycott are not exactly angels themselves.

(And notice that Levant suggests a tit - for - tat boycott of The Gap, etc., by Albertans.)

The eventual downgrade to junk, aka non-investment grade, will make IL debt ineligible for investment for some of their major institutional investors (one of which has already called for a boycott of Illinois debt) which are restricted by mandate to purchase only investment grade muni bonds.

Monday We stop by our local Liquor Depot to see whether Premier Rachel Notleyâ $ ™ s provincial boycott of BC wine has resulted in stampedes of bacchantes fighting over those last precious bottles of Co...

12th October 2017 This week: Chamber of Mines stands by its decision to boycott gala dinner; Rip up charter, provide tax incentives, back junior miners, says Maimane And, ANC will heed Joburg Indaba call for removal of Minerals Minister, says Mkhize →

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.

Another one of his big cases is the Stock Lending Antitrust Litigation that charges major Wall Street banks with conspiring to prevent the stock lending market from developing and maturing by boycotting other platforms designed to increase transparency and reduce costs.

The people at that church should boycott it for having a preacher that is so prejudice and by passing judgment on her he committed the greatest sin of all.

Parishioners have threatened to boycott St David's Church in the Ceredigion village of Blaenporth over the measure taken by it's parochial church council (PCC).

Some shoppers, egged on by conservatives such as Fox News host Tucker Carlson, recently called for a boycott of Macy's, arguing the chain's hijabs are a symbol of poor treatment of women in the Middle East.

I think by boycotting and lashing out against them, gays and lesbians are doing the very thing they claim to be victims of, which means their behavior is no better than those they oppose.

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

I call for a boycott of his show by all Catholics and by all of our Christian brothers and sisters.

As Mary Eberstadt reports, expressions of religious belief that society considered innocuous and normal until quite recently are now grounds for dismissal from jobs, denial of employment, and boycotts by the media.

It is only by our boycotting meat that animals can cease to suffer under the conditions of contemporary factory farming.

Do you really think that a boycott of Chick Fil A is the same as what was done to Jewish businesses by the Nazis?

It was the second voting delay in four out of Kenya's 47 counties, highlighting the bitter divisions and political uncertainty that have intensified after Thursday's repeat presidential election, which was boycotted by supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga.

They have a right to be bigots and donate to hate groups, and they will be boycotted by millions of people in response to that hate.

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.

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.

Mozilla quickly faced an internal storm of protest from employees along with a boycott of the Firefox browser organized by the dating site OkCupid.

Even as late as 1937, four years after Heidegger was supposed to have withdrawn from the Nazi party, students at his own university thought it appropriate to protest Nazi denigration of Karl Jaspers by boycotting Heidegger's lectures.

Some vigilante groups, tired of promises and no action by the broadcasting industry, began to take matters into their own hands by initiating boycotts and urging the passage of censorship laws in communities and states.

The harassment includes social boycott, expulsions, threats and violence against Ahmadi students by extremist students, teachers and principals of the majority sect.

He says that instead of boycotting (Christians have already been down that road with Starbucks), he wanted to «start a movement» by playing a «prank» on them: He tells the employees that his name is «Merry Christmas» so that it has to be written on the cup by the barista.

Organisers of an event celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lifestyles in Lancashire are boycotting a venue in protest at its decision to host a speech by Franklin Graham.

When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sat at his kitchen table, in the winter of 1956, terrified by the fear of what might happen to him and his family during the Montgomery bus boycott, he said he heard the voice of Jesus promising, «I will be with you.»