Sentence examples for a wave of boycotts from inspiring English sources

No, I'm not talking about the Arizona law that empowers local police to check the immigration status of anyone they detain, which generated a wave of boycotts and a surfeit of Gestapo analogies last spring.

The later rally, at sundown, was organized by Tea Party groups from St .Louis and Dallas who said they decided to take the lead and support the state against a wave of boycotts protesting the law, some by cities like San Francisco and Seattle.

So governments rig elections to make sure they win; and opposition parties reject elections they think they will lose.For combinations of these two reasons, Asia is experiencing a wave of election boycotts.

This resolution -- which follows a wave of similar boycotts in academia worldwide -- is not only hurtful and shocking, it is illogical and counterproductive.

Consumer protests over Black Friday abuses and anger over Ferguson have largely eased, only to be replaced by a fresh wave of boycotts and battles.

In North Carolina, Republican governor Pat McCrory inspired a wave of revulsion and a damaging boycott of the state by high-profile businesses and entertainment stars with his anti-transgender "bathroom bill".

The attorney general may yet intervene, but what is worrying here is the atmosphere in which the police are emboldened to use such draconian tactics against journalists … News International shut the News of the World in the face of a wave of revulsion from readers and an advertising boycott.

For now, the promotion of opponents of Sheikh Tamim appears to be more of a public relations stunt and fixture of the media war than a serious challenge in a country that has witnessed a wave of nationalist sentiment in response to the boycott.

But the decision touched off a wave of controversy, including pledges by most of the Republican candidates to boycott the Nevada caucuses.

A large group of mostly Sunni lawmakers announced a boycott of Parliament on Saturday in protest of a wave of arrests by the Shiite-dominated government that swept up a number of their aides and security guards.

Its executive director, Hagai El-Ad, said: "The boycott bill represents the current unfortunate crest in a wave of anti-democratic legislation that is gradually drowning Israel's democratic foundations".