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Sentence Examples Geoff Boycott became the 18th player to score 100 centuries in cricket, and the first to reach the landmark in a Test. Finally, the new medium of television contributed mightily to the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. What is more, Boycott scored the ton in an Ashes series and on his home ground at Headingley. The Montgomery Bus Boycott may have been important but it hardly had media appeal. Its celebrated tactic was the boycott, so called from its use against Capt. Charles Boycott, a land agent who refused to concede rent reductions. The university employers' body also arrogantly dismissed the action, believing the boycott would fizzle out. Costello is undoubtedly a big fish for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. If this is truly the case, the E.U. will have skirted both its own rules and, by extension, Israel's Boycott Law. Boycott herself decamped early on, smitten by an American visitor to London, John Steinbeck IV, son of the Nobelist in literature. Nashville's radio stations were deluged with angry callers advocating a boycott of the group's albums. Eventually, the pope had the lay people boycott married priests and not attend Masses celebrated by them. If you don't like shops that start their Yuletide stuff in November, boycott them. One of their biggest successes is Buy Nothing Day, a global boycott that has reportedly had an impact on 60 countries worldwide. Later, the media department chairperson also appealed to the Opposition to reverse its boycott decision. An interesting point that Rose was quoted on in the Guardian was that he applied the same boycott to South Africa under apartheid. University bosses urged academics today to end a marking boycott called as part of a long-running dispute over a pay deal. Indeed, a petition against the boycott idea has garnered thousands of signatures from intellectual luminaries here. Consumers can boycott retail establishments that have poor safety records or that clearly lack safeguards to prevent violence. Players, most notably Tiger Woods, have been asked to boycott the season's first major. Many student activists continued to advocate an electoral boycott, a campaign which has fallen on deaf ears among the mass of the population. Show More Sentences He warned clubs threatening to boycott the two-day meeting that they would face sanctions. The US government has also threatened to boycott the conference if it delves into the issue of slavery reparations. A boycott of a university or a country does not, of course, constitute racial discrimination against its members. So I consider a boycott and two seconds later I realise it'd be like taking a pair of shears to my nose. To promote the boycott, they believed, was also to raise consciousness about socially-responsible and stylish modes of non-silk fashion. Yawar opposed the boycott call and headed a slate of Sunni candidates in the election. Solicitors representing the University claim that the grounds of the boycott are unfounded. An academic boycott is a political act with a political goal, and if it is unsuited to the purpose then it is bad politics. I'd love to boycott the US because of it but I have family I'm visiting for Christmas. The European Union quickly imposed sanctions on Austria, and numerous private organizations and individuals began to boycott the country. Some members have asked why we do not boycott countries such as Sudan or Saudi Arabia that have very bad human rights records. Mr. Lopez also said that, beginning tonight, his organization will boycott any organization that uses the term illegal alien. Zimbabwe's first black test cricketer has called on international cricketing authorities to boycott his country. A call to boycott US goods from drink to meals, from cars to sports wear, would hit corporate America where it hurts. Although some angry citizens boycott U.S. products, the U.S. has made it too expensive for the everyday Jamaican consumer. The campaign to encourage shoppers to boycott these goods has started again outside Selfridges in what has now become a test case. Gandhi encouraged Indians to boycott British goods and buy Indian goods instead. Efforts to convince the security staff proved futile and at one stage the media threatened to boycott the prime minister's visit. The intention of the opposition parties to boycott the poll is irresponsible in the extreme. Later this summer, Parents for Justice also urged its members to boycott the new inquiry. Show More Sentences The funeral directors are threatening to boycott a county council awards ceremony because feelings are running high. The Preston-based Captive Animals' Protection Society urged the public to boycott the show being staged on Cronkeyshaw Common. But some veterans who fought in the Far East believe it is a snub to them and say they will boycott the official event. The Football Supporters Federation are today urging Bantams fans to boycott Saturday's clash with Wimbledon. Tonga and Samoa have threatened to boycott the next World Cup unless they receive a better deal. It is not clear what will happen if opposition parties decide to boycott the Parliament session again today. We are not in a situation, more precisely, we do not have a relationship of forces that permits an active boycott. Although more than 35,000 members voted, the National Union has ruled that this is not enough to sanction a boycott. But there was not a great enough turnout under the NUT's own rules to sanction a boycott. The grape boycott helped change policy precisely because it did not try to delegitimize a whole society. Two Australian wool bodies have approached the boycott in very different ways. They will boycott classes and become violent at the flimsiest of excuses and generally behave like spoilt brats. It was by and large non-violent and essentially involved non-cooperation or boycott. The repeal of the boycott last week is only a small victory in a battle that is not yet over. But a nationalist boycott of the vote resulted in an overwhelming rejection of union with the republic. The boycott is a powerful, and non-violent, method of creating international pressure for change. There were calls for a tourist boycott, but nobody paid much attention to it. This is certainly a worthy cause for which to go into battle, and the boycott was indeed wholly objectionable for this reason alone. You could name them, boycott them, occupy their offices and force them out of business. The European Union boycott and American prohibitions are not seriously handicapping Burma. Show More Sentences As leader of the successful boycott, King found himself catapulted to national prominence. There remain some issues to resolve and a few players are still opting to continue their boycott. In a show of solidarity, most Orangemen chose to boycott a recent evening meal of spaghetti. Ten years ago, if you had a boycott, you might send out a chain letter or harass some poor secretary in headquarters somewhere. There would appear to be some confusion among these supporters of the AUT boycott decision. Graphic images of seals being clubbed to death or shot helps sustain an international boycott on their fur. If customers boycott Tesco because of this ill-judged decision, they may well back down. If they would just look at the ringleaders of this boycott they would soon find out that they were commos. Should that thus mean that the initiators of the boycott motion have failed since the vote has been revoked? The boycott was in response to a Japanese-American man's attempt to annul the marriage between his daughter and a Pinoy. A meeting of Newcastle AUT yesterday was inquorate and therefore took no vote on the boycott. A general boycott will help this necessary process of international isolation. The people plan to stick a label across their letter boxes and decline post as part of their campaign of boycott. The legal profession's peak body, the Law Council, called on judges to boycott the new regime. It considered pulling a huge advertising splurge for Martell in the US due to the boycott threats. When another publisher picked up the book and the controversy, feminist groups attempted to organise a boycott. The public could boycott distasteful TV serials, after all they held the remote. So many people vowed to boycott sponsors of the biased docudrama that airing it on primetime TV became financially imprudent. Far-Left NUT members will tomorrow try to commit their executive to urging other teacher unions to ballot their members on a boycott. One reason is that permissive societies that realized that crime does pay did not boycott people who lived a life of misdemeanor and wrongdoing. Show More Sentences One slur is not good, while another is fine because the league has not lost any money in a consumer boycott of the name. Steele publicized the boycott on his blog, tie-dyed Jive in the, and sent out a press release promoting it. The Iraqi Sunnis are just now recovering from their ill-conceived boycott of the 2005 elections. The artistic director of the festival is spitting chips over the boycott. As a result of a threatened boycott by the former dictator's defence team, the trial may have to take place with a scratch team of lawyers appointed by the court itself. And he has a right to call for the use of boycott, divestment and sanctions as a tactic. Outraged that the Wakefield campaign was going to get even more publicity, a number of leading authorities, who had been invited to participate, decided to boycott the debate. Disney could still negotiate its way out of a threatened boycott, but it's possible that the film's grosses could be hurt. Apart from condemning the U.S. and its allies as well as warning against their plans of further aggression, the documentary exhorts the people to boycott the U.S. products. The efforts failed due to unionist intransigence and nationalist boycott. But more powerful was the boycott that ensued, with 98 advertisers pulling their support for the show. The boycott by the Democratic state senators repeats the tactic employed by Democratic members of the lower house who left Texas as a group three months ago. This year has seen some notable victories for the pro-Palestine boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement. Turkish threats to boycott German goods also caused widespread anger. After a dazzling full debut for England, a media boycott kept him quiet. Let's boycott the Big Top when this media circus comes to town. The art scene was still firmly in thrall to the cultural boycott, which restricted South African artists from showing overseas, and overseas artists from showing here. I find the notion of the proposed boycott loathsome and frightening. Some SSP members argue for a boycott in the Euro referendum. Everyone, including the movers of the motions, was taken aback by the vote at April's conference of the AUT lecturers' union to boycott certain universities. Show More Sentences But the boycott measure is also confused, chiefly because of its bouillabaisse of motivations. Unless Cuba sends them back, you might consider following the now lifted embargo with your own personal boycott. The British had responded by sending a battle cruiser and threatening an international boycott. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee cannot meet without at least one Democrat present, so a unanimous boycott would delay if not torpedo the nomination. Major General avi Zamir was so peeved that he reportedly called a boycott of Refaeli-endorsed products. In 1998, the Asa announced that it would boycott California and Washington State for their anti-affirmative action laws. Back then, Sunnis obeyed fatwas by clerics to boycott the vote. The 1996 filing was, naturally, as silly and frivolous as the boycott push that came before it. In protest, the new minister in town organized a bus boycott. Those rumors, in turn, sparked a boycott of enterprises affiliated with the family. Additionally there is the problem of calling for a boycott on a company that has some union workers, notably some of the delivery drivers and bottlers. He has called rallies of Labour Party members, canvassing a boycott of parliament and suggesting continued international sanctions against the government. As such, the limitations the ASA boycott resolution places on academic freedom are, themselves, quite limited. There was never a call for a boycott of the games of the team that employed rocker. The union has threatened to call for solidarity actions by its members at all sister newspapers and a boycott of all Media 24 newspapers if its demands are not met. Sport has always been used as a means of enforcing a political viewpoint, whether it is to boycott a country or whether it is to establish diplomatic relations. But as Reuters reports, he is shrugging off the boycott, presumably with that Gallic shrug which Americans in particular seem to find so irritating. Soon the association was strong enough to boycott local landlords who were evicting their tenants and offering the land to others at increased rents. Union branches up and down the country held meetings attended by unusually large numbers of members and submitted resolutions calling for the boycott to be dropped. There is the tendency to boycott US goods throughout the region. Show More Sentences Our call for a boycott is not based on the belief that socialists, in general and in all cases, must refuse to participate in bourgeois elections. A Texas police organization called for a boycott of parent company Time Warner. And most U.S. consumers will not boycott French perfume or wine. The terror of the 1972 games in Munich had inflated insurance and security costs, and the boycott by African nations had deprived the 1976 games of their global legitimacy. May is also a passionate cricket fan, claiming Geoffrey Boycott was one of her sporting heroes. If we did all suddenly boycott social media, we'd lose that online stalkerish behaviour of watching what everyone else does and would gain so much more. Bal Gangadhar Tilak said that the Swadeshi and Boycott movements are two sides of the same coin. There have been emails all over the place to boycott US goods. They absolutely must boycott this absurd, insane, sickening, repulsive, shameful, and at the same time shame-less circus. His solution has been to boycott particular consumer products. I was reading a similar article the other day about how Germans are trying to boycott American goods, as they see it as the only way to get America's attention. Either that or her publishing house underestimated the boycott power of Team Elizabeth. Still, Whole Foods is one of the great green success stories out there, and calls for a boycott will ultimately be self-defeating. The Sinn Fein Assembly member said he hoped unionists would end their boycott of the deputy mayorship at the council meeting tonight. Booze bosses last night insisted they had lost cash after Jamieson last week urged shopkeepers to boycott Buckie. Dispirito asks them to boycott Canadian snow crabs until that country's annual slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seals is permanently halted. Bassil implored the Council not to boycott Lebanon touristically and maintain brotherly relations which have been established over the years. Elections are a nonissue and APHC is not going to waste time and energy on running a boycott campaign. Female surfers, and fathers of some young female grommets, have taken to social media criticizing the video and promising to boycott the brand. D'ailleurs le boycott des partis de l'opposition ne semble pas du moins pour le moment, deranger la majorite et le gouvernement. Show More Sentences In 1963 the Bristol Bus Boycott, following the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to hire black drivers and conductors, drove the passage of the UK's 1965 Race Relations Act. The outcome of this was that the general committee resigned and Boycott, having already been elected to the new committee, was reinstalled as a player. There was further controversy when Boycott was not offered a new contract. Geoff Boycott captained Yorkshire for most of the 1970s, but success eluded the team even when Boycott left Test cricket for three years to concentrate on the county game. Geoff Boycott, the summariser, I could listen to all day long. The Census Alert campaign group also decided against calling for a boycott. Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper threatened to boycott the event, but was instead represented at the meeting by Deepak Obhrai. The UK Foreign Affairs Committee called upon Prime Minister David Cameron to boycott the event, however, he chose to attend. Ultimately there was a judicial review and a boycott of the system by senior doctors across the country. All British films in this period were adversely affected by a Hollywood boycott of British films. In the video, she encouraged chefs to remove foie gras from their menus and asked consumers to boycott restaurants that serve it. Throughout the entire production period internet campaigns expressed their dissatisfaction and threatened to boycott the film in protest. South Africa was banned from international cricket from 1970 to 1992 as part of the apartheid boycott. The war culminated in a FOCA boycott of the 1982 San Marino Grand Prix months later. The boycott contributed to the 1980 Games being a less publicised and less competitive affair, which was dominated by the host country. Far from being intimidated, the colonists formed new associations to boycott British goods. The movement consisted of the boycott of foreign goods and also the social boycott of any Indian who used foreign goods. Thatcher supported the American plan to boycott the Moscow Olympics, as did Parliament. The union tried an illegal secondary boycott and was fined in court, losing all its assets which had been used for pensions. It has also led to action plans to boycott Shell by environmental groups, and human rights groups. Show More Sentences However, the Methodist Federation did call for a boycott of Japan, which had invaded China and was disrupting missionary activity there. More and more riders joined his boycott, and by 1976 the race was stricken from the championship and replaced by the British Grand Prix. The boycott ended any prospect of securing emergency government assistance. The United States has only missed the 1980 games due to a boycott led by American president Jimmy Carter. In 1999, Indonesia restricted turtle trade and consumption because of the decreasing population and threat of a tourist boycott. Jackson threatened a boycott, and NBA commissioner David Stern was at one point reportedly contacted in hopes that he would intervene. They used public demonstrations, boycott, violence, and threats of violence to ensure that the British tax laws were unenforceable. This was highly controversial and led several hundred bishops to boycott the 2008 Lambeth Conference. This commitment to traditional cloth making was also part of a larger swadeshi movement, which aimed for the boycott of all British goods. Celebrities like Weir were called on to urge a boycott of the Games. Last Monday, university students began a boycott of classes. The KMT's similar boycott of two referenda on local governance and party issues during the island's general election on Jan. Norway's main trade union LO threatened to boycott the Scandic hotel chain, owned by the US-based Hilton Hotels Corp. The Blackpool supporters will be taking part in a boycott of their game against Leeds United. The students, who are due to graduate later this year, hit out after members of unions Natfhe and the Association of University Lecturers voted to boycott assessments. Some European nations and Japan sought to disassociate themselves from United States foreign policy in the Middle East to avoid being targeted by the boycott. Although a boycott led by the Soviet Union depleted the field in certain sports, 140 National Olympic Committees took part, which was a record at the time. Opposition parties sometimes boycott votes they feel are unfair or illegitimate, or if the election is for a government that is considered illegitimate. No morchas taken out in protest, and no boycott threats made headlines as it happened in the aftermath of Sourav Ganguly's exclusion sometime ago. That is the claim of women's rights protester Martha Burk, who tried to organise a boycott of the 2003 event against the club's all-male membership. Show More Sentences The boycott in Merseyside following the newspaper's coverage of the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 meant that copies were not dispatched to areas with a Liverpool postcode. Liverpool FC supporters and a significant majority of the City of Liverpool's residents have continued to boycott the newspaper as a result of the Hillsborough tragedy. In 1911, the Women's Freedom League, a suffragette organisation campaigning for female suffrage in the United Kingdom, organised a boycott of the census. The Memorandum was debated anyway, leading to a boycott of the parliament by the Bosnian Serbs, and during the boycott the legislation was passed. In 1972 and 1976 a large number of African countries threatened the IOC with a boycott to force them to ban South Africa and Rhodesia, because of their segregationist regimes. Mugabe would play to the gallery of international opinion, flourishing the martyr card, and several African nations would no doubt boycott London. After months of turmoil, Ban had on Friday urged Burundi to delay the vote after the opposition announced a boycott, but the government rejected his appeal. While countries sometimes miss an Olympics due to a lack of qualified athletes, some choose to boycott a celebration of the Games for various reasons. The South African cricket team participated in the event for the first time, following the fall of the apartheid regime and the end of the international sports boycott. Cameron did not attend the games but denied it was a boycott in protest at Russia's laws, having previously raised the issue of gay rights in the country with Vladimir Putin. Apartheid became increasingly controversial, and several countries began to boycott business with the South African government because of its racial policies. Finding little vent for their trade goods, the Portuguese suspected the Arabs were colluding to shut them out of the city's spice markets by organizing a boycott. Because of the disagreements, Zwingli decided to boycott the disputation. At the last minute, the Awami League announced an election boycott. This temporarily resolved the crisis, and the boycott of British goods largely ceased, with only the more radical patriots such as Samuel Adams continuing to agitate. American women were integral to the success of the boycott of British goods, as the boycotted items were largely household items such as tea and cloth. Jaya Krishna Goit, head of the front, said people in Terai, Nepal's southern plains, will boycott the election if it is conducted by the present government. This led to a boycott of parliamentary elections that year by the Al Wefaq party, who said that the government would use the upper house to veto their plans. Examples from Classical Literature The sanction of the caste rules is in a boycott by all members of the caste. But as the Danbury concern was determined to fight the union, in 1902 a nationwide boycott was declared. But having failed to popularise boycott, Mohani Saheb has accepted Swadeshi as the lesser good. Speaking to bus passengers after the skit, Miller explained the history of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and why Americans remember it. The boycott continues, but it is dwindling in intensity and will soon subside. Indignation meetings were held, and it was determined to boycott the monks. A campaign was launched on social media urging people to boycott the Forevermore studio in Glasgow. But in a year they were trembling in the face of that boycott. A little later, the non-governmental organization Wake Up clearly urged all Albanians to boycott the presidential elections. At the convention, the Staley workers announced a boycott of the Pepsi corporation. Boycott organizer, Glen Switkes, hopes consumers will cut up their credit cards and send them to Texaco's corporate headquarters in White Plains, New York. He was harsh on the advocates of boycotts, asserting that they sought to harm the reformist movement, although the boycott movement is entirely reformist. Two North Korean restaurants that have been operating in Cambodia for nearly a decade are struggling to survive after a concerted effort by South Koreans to boycott them. Find more words! 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