Sentences with phrase «threats of boycotts»

The response on Twitter has fallen into the stock Twitter response: shock, outrage, threats of boycotts.

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 threats of boycotts and letters of disapproval all arising from Trautmann's arrival at City.

The letter follows threats of boycotts from governors and mayors around the country.

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?

Boycotts, or at least the threat of boycotts, are starting to rumble through top - flight fan bases: several thousand Newcastle United fans stayed away from their home game against Tottenham, and around half of Liverpool's away crowd stayed away from their team's visit to Hull City.

He also thinks that «under those circumstances, the threat of a boycott will vanish.»

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

NEWS After public complaints, a petition and threats of a boycott, Footaction announces it is backtracking on its decision to cover a mosaic mural by artist Louis Delsarte.

Not exact matches

The closure comes after footage of the arrest of two black men who tried to use the bathroom in a Philadelphia Starbucks went viral, sparking boycott threats.

Faced with boycott threats from giant businesses, including Nike, Apple, Angie's List and Salesforce.com, Indiana's Governor Mike Pence has vowed to alter the language of a controversial, religious freedom bill he signed into law just last week, to ensure businesses can't use it to discriminate against LGBT customers.

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

Nearly half the student body boycotted the first day of classes, and the school received bomb threats.

If violence means the imposition of one's will upon another, it is not limited to acts like rape and murder but also embraces such deeds as boycotts, verbal threats and oppressive economic structures.

Retail giant Woolworths has re-emphasised its support for same - sex marriage and dissociated itself from businessman Roger Corbett after comments by the former chief executive led to a flood of boycott threats from shoppers.

In our experience it takes pressure from campaigns such as the boycott or the threat of legal action to force changes from Nestlé.

Using tools such as Twitter and the threat of spending boycotts, consumers and activists pressured retailers to abandon Beef Products Inc's ammonia - treated lean, finely textured beef.

«Chief of Army Staff, General Buratai and his military hierarchy are desperately using every and any available strategy to justify their actions against IPOB family members in Biafraland particularly in Anambra State because of our boycott threat.

I welcome a boycott of the Journal News and their advertisers for the newspaper's deliberate and irresponsible publishing of personal information of legal and law - abiding citizens of Rockland and Westchester Counties.The boycott should continue until the Journal News publishes a full page apology containing a list of DISMISSED Editors who are responsible for this outrage which has caused a real threat to the safety of the general public.

A threat to boycott Wegmans due its stocking of Trump wines appears to have backfired, triggering a sellout in some stores.

After more than a year of negotiations — and a threat to boycott Elsevier's 2500 journals — a deal has been struck: For no additional charge beyond subscription fees, 30 % of research published by Dutch researchers in Elsevier journals will be open access by 2018.

Other universities have made similar threats in the past, among them the University of California, which threatened both Elsevier and Nature Publishing Group with boycotts.

The article notes that Secretary King is «not respecting the voices of parents, teachers and students; doubling down on threats to financially punish students for boycotting tests; and digging in his heels to...

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.

«I have access to the CBIA, a retailers forum, and the pushback was intense, and included overt threats of drastically lowered orders and even total boycotts of the line,» «The Massive» creator Brian Wood wrote in a Tumblr post that quickly made the rounds of the comics blogosphere.

Lots of other bloggers certainly thought so, registering an uproar of protest over Wiley's threat and calling for a boycott.

Served as trial counsel for a major national manufacturer in a lengthy NLRB proceeding in which the client prevailed on bad faith bargaining, secondary boycott and threat of violence charges against the Teamsters Union, secured three separate federal court injunctions against the Union and won an unprecedented award of attorneys» fees and litigation costs [reported at 334 NLRB No. 137]

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Has there been any threat by any nation and / or corporation that they would be willing to boycott purchasing oil or oil product associated with the Northern Gateway should «the right of free, prior and informed consent» be violated?

FedEx responded to boycott threats in on Monday afternoon, in a statement saying it would continue to offer members of the gun - rights group discounts.

While the boycott threats have piled up, some people on social media have lined up in support of FedEx.