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The parliamentary secretary for agriculture, Richard Colbeck, said the backbench rural committee and "quite a number in the ministry" want to use the review to remove an exemption for environmental groups from the consumer law ban on so-called "secondary boycotts".

Business review site Angie's List joined local boycotts by threatening to shut down an expansion of its Indianapolis headquarters.

Thousands of soldiers and federal police were guarding polling stations where violence and calls for boycotts threatened to mar elections for 500 seats in the lower house of Congress, nine of 31 governorships and hundreds of mayors and local officials.

Grahame Turk, chairman of the National Seafood Industry Alliance, said his industry would make a submission to the competition policy review arguing both that market-based environmental campaigns should be considered secondary boycotts and that the ACCC should police the veracity of what green groups say about particular industries.

Costa Coffee sales rose by 7.1% in the last three months against the backdrop of protests and boycotts against its closest rival Starbucks because of the US chain's controversial tax arrangements.

"Our message to everyone in Fermanagh/Tyrone is that a vote for a candidate who boycotts the House of Commons is a wasted vote.

Wednesday's announcement of further boycotts had brought the total number of artists forgoing the Biennale to nine, after five artists, including de Vietri, last week announced they had "revoked our works, cancelled our public events and relinquished our artists' fees" for the event, scheduled to begin on 21 March.

Other firms operating in the West Bank, while brazenly saying they don't fear future boycotts, are naive if they don't think similar actions will soon affect them.

Craig Spence, communications director for the International Paralympic Committee, dismissed fears that the company's sponsorship deal, on which Atos is spending an estimated £64m over 10 years, could lead to protests and boycotts.

The decision to abandon non-violence lost the ANC some support abroad, put no real military pressure on the government and, most seriously, diverted the movement's energies from the task of organisation at home, which was essential if strikes, boycotts and civil disobedience were to be effective.

And they will want to avoid embarrassing boycotts that might disturb their long cherished dream of showing off China's sporting and organisational prowess to the rest of the world.China, which won outright on the second round of voting, was the favourite, although Paris and Toronto provided tough competition.