Sentence examples for boycott of events from inspiring English sources

Mr Tutu suggested a boycott of "events, sports teams and media programming" that were sponsored by fossil fuel energy companies.

The Melbourne newspaper The Age quotes from Loach's letter to the festival director explaining his withdrawal: Palestinians, including artists and academics, have called for a boycott of events supported by Israel.

The figures come as momentum builds around Philip Pullman's protest over the Oxford literary festival's failure to offer authors appearance fees, with writers including Linda Grant, Joanne Harris and Francesca Simon among a host of authors calling for a boycott of events which expect writers to appear for free.

But the minister signalled his opposition to boycotts of events such as the Olympics.

Some area residents, conservationists and animal right activists were outraged that the tiger had been killed and posted gruesome photos of the tiger's body on social media, calling for an end to the use of animals in circuses and for boycotts of events that exploit animals.

It was postponed a second time in 1980 following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Canada's boycott of sporting events with the Soviet Union as a result.

We support this boycott as we support the boycott of cultural events sponsored by the Israeli state.

The S.C.L.C. said that if the flag was not redesigned by March 2001, it would call for a boycott of the events.

He also boycotted a music festival in Athens in 1967 to protest the Greek military junta, and when the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization suspended its programs in Israel in 1974, he organized a musicians' boycott of Unesco events.

The letter, which also served to establish an activist network called Culture for Coexistence, argued for dialogue between the embattled regions rather than a cultural boycott of Israeli events and institutions.

"We want a complete boycott of the event to send the strongest possible signal," Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson told Guardian Australia.