Sentences with phrase «year of boycotts»

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.

Not exact matches

A similar law enacted about a year ago in North Carolina prompted the relocation of sporting events and economic boycotts that were estimated to have cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars.

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.

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.

Compared with the seven - year time scale of the Nestle boycott, or the multiyear boycotts of corporations operating in South Africa during the 1980s, this was something new.

She took a more active role this year following a series of scandals, including sexual harassment allegations, a video of Kalanick berating a driver, and a passenger boycott promoted on social media.

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.

That wasn't enough reassurance for organizations such as the Disciples of Christ, a Protestant group that brings in millions of dollars to Indianapolis through its conferences, which said it plans to boycott the city this year.

Some businesses and events that had boycotted the state over H.B. 2 — like the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament — decided to return anyway, and North Carolina does improve to No. 28 from No. 30 last year in Quality of Life.

Meanwhile, many are calling on a boycott of FedEx, which recently reported second - quarter revenue of $ 16.3 billion, a 9 percent rise over the year - earlier period.

Chinese Internet users are calling on consumers to boycott Carrefour, which they accuse of supporting pro-Tibetan independence groups seeking to disrupt this year's Beijing Olympics.

One of the main show courts at Melbourne Park, the venue for the Australian Open, is named after Court and Martina Navratilova has been among those to call for it to be renamed, while Australian number one Sam Stosur said players could choose to boycott the arena at next year's tournament.

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.

I am certain that the boycott of a gaggle of inbred bigots will put a huge dent in the revenue of Walt Disney Corp (approximately $ 41B last year).

From an unknown Baptist preacher leading a bus boycott in 1955, he became, just nine years later, the acknowledged moral leader of our country, standing in the oval office of the White House for the signing of the historic Civil Rights Act.

Last year, my son and I rode the city bus downtown on the MLK holiday, and I told him the story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott — the story that made King famous and won him the Nobel Peace Prize.

Every year around this time, there is a common refrain in some circles of Christianity that calls for boycotts against private companies that do not use the term «Christmas» in displays, advertising and interactions between customers and employees.

In addition, our annual Christmas Party has been rebranded as an «End of Year Function», not because of a secularization of our company, but because the tiny Muslim minority threatened to boycott the event if it continued being referred to as a Christmas Party.

South Korea, for instance, lost 7.5 trillion won (US$ 6.8 billion) because of China's decision to boycott South Korea's tourism industry over the Korean government's decision to install a US anti-missile system last year, according to the country's National Assembly Budget Office.

Farmers» groups in Germany, Belgium and Netherlands have all became involved in protests over the last year, which have ranged from spilling milk to boycotting production, as part of calls for a higher basic pay rate for their products.

On February 17 last year, nine cattle buyers boycotted a sale in protest at the point of the sale process that the cattle were being weighed.

«How Arsenal respond this summer will be crucial» Admin, please save this article because you will need it next year this time around... This kind of articles are there for long 11 seasons (summers) and the specialist is here doing what his ego tells him to do... I say no, this time ALL fans should stand together and demand more, put more pressure on the board and the manger... This club is a top club and is not a 4th grade anymore... All those who are in UK should do something (protests, show banners, chants, boycott, whatever)... I know there are still fans who support Wenger, but you also should demand more from Wenger, I assume you are discontent with the results and the transfer policy... Doing nothing, our 4th - place trophy is not even guaranteed...

Gazidis is at fault for failing to get them, doing the role which Dein done when he was CEO and also selling BS year after year to make profit of AFC fans who refuse to boycott the club (this isn't a moan at you but irritates me still).

Of course we want to see changes throughout the club, win major trophies, buy world class players and see entertaining football, but boycotting the games isn't going to achieve this, it may do in the long run, and I'm talking years and not a 2 or 3 seasons, but by that time we could be regulars in the bottom half of the league on a regular basiOf course we want to see changes throughout the club, win major trophies, buy world class players and see entertaining football, but boycotting the games isn't going to achieve this, it may do in the long run, and I'm talking years and not a 2 or 3 seasons, but by that time we could be regulars in the bottom half of the league on a regular basiof the league on a regular basis.

if the team is not strengthened, and a statement of our intent shown, then i urge all supporters to boycott all club merchandise... i have 2 sons, both have normally had a new arsenal shirt each year, but not this year, lets hit Arsenal where it will our them in the pocket, if shirt sales and merchandise sales fall, Puma will not be happy, and it will be more difficult to get a shirt sponsor if we are not selling them..

Unfortunately Arsenal fan base were split and that help Wenger to stay 10 years without wining anything and lately was very proud that he won the Fa cup and not the champion league championship.It is really time for him to go and immediately > All Arsenal fans should unite and make their voices heard and push Weger out of Arsenal as soon as possible > Arsenal fans you are the gunners and you can take decisions and forced the board and the shareholders by boycotting all Arsenal matches if they don't listen to you.

Every year Man City (whose fans are known for boycotting CL) get a group of death, and if it isn't them then it's Arsenal (we've had CL finalists in our group for 4 consecutive seasons now).

I am starting my boycott by not watching this team or buying any merchandise if only us fans were more objective and serious about our team it wouldnt be 11 years and counting that we are not even be considered as genuine title contenders even crystal palace and Swansea city seems to be more aggressive and focus than arsenal I hope none of you all gets a heart attack after the window closes and we make a panic buy and sign Mahrez from Leicester this is such a stupidly run club

We have boycotted Amazon this year having learned about the extent of their tax evading, union busting, small - business killing antics.

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

-LSB-...] is a 30 - year - long Nestle boycott that a lot of bloggers have joined in on in recent years.

Many of the older students at Chapman started boycotting chicken nuggets last year and will be delighted to find that pressed meat is out and whole - breast chicken nuggets are in, she says.

The above films and many other examples of media coverage over the years have come about because the boycott campaign puts Nestlé in the spotlight.

«We have been grateful for the support of Methodist Church members for the boycott campaign over the years and the interest officials have given this issue, but it was obvious to us from the beginning that the investment strategy would be exploited by Nestlé and so it has proved.

UNICEF wrote to Nestlé's then Chief Executive Officer (now Chairman), Peter Brabeck - Letmathé, defending Cracking the Code as supporting its own findings and set out several areas where Nestlé policies needed to change (it took years of campaigning to pressure Nestlé to change its policy on complementary foods, criticised in the UNICEF letter — see boycott successes).

They must have been aware that there's been a history of having these blogger junkets blow up in a very ugly way (especially this year, I think there's some social unrest behind a lot of the rage about these junkets), and, given that they've been boycotted for over 30 years, they must have known that, you know, activists use the Internet.

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.

This is of course almost ridiculously frustrating to those of us who have been vainly trying to boycott them for years without much result.

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.

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

The following year, 1977, saw the start of calls for a boycott of all Nestlé products in the US; the boycott quickly spread to Europe.

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.

The failure of their plot to oust Bobie last year resulted in a boycott of the «Ekosi Sen» programme under the guise of a so - called bias against the NPP flagbearer, Nana Akufo - Addo.

This year's White House Correspondents» Association dinner was unusual — boycotted by the president and minus a lot of the usual celebrities in the crowd.

Or would the reaction among northern, working class voters being fucked over more closely mirror The Sun's defamatory coverage of the Hillsborough disaster, where the boycott in Merseyside is still going strong after 25 years, and looks good for another 25?

There was a backlash from teachers and parents, and in 2015, there was a boycott of some tests, which continues this year.

The MRC have boycotted this election, and so are unlikely to feature prominently, but their popularity over the past few years nevertheless reflects an underlying trend of contempt for the over-representation of central Kenya in national politics.

Advertiser boycotts led to the closure of the News of the World on 10 July 2011, after 168 years of publication.

New York is going back to the drawing board to rethink the way it evaluates school teachers and principals after controversy over the use of student test scores in job evaluations helped fuel a massive boycott of state exams in recent years.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 % of students statewide opting out of the tests.