Sentence examples for near boycott from inspiring English sources

In the middle of a drug-testing controversy and a near boycott, the American Lenny Krayzelburg and the Australian Lenny Krayzelburg and the Australian teenager Ian Thorpe set world records at a short course World Cup meet yesterday in Berlin.

UNITED NATIONS — Diplomats from the world's governments met throughout this week on agreements to cut the global illicit trade in small arms, but their work was curtailed in part by the near-boycott of the meetings by the United States.

Rural areas voted much more heavily than did cities and towns, which in many cases observed a near total boycott.

The Sun's 1989 report caused widespread revulsion in Liverpool and led to a near total boycott of the paper on Merseyside that exists to this day.

As the 50th anniversary of the bus boycott nears -- along with the completion of civil rights projects -- Mr. Carrier said Montgomery and its landmarks will get more attention.

Teachers have moved nearer a boycott of tests for four-year-old pupils, set to be introduced in England's primary schools in 2016.

Jim Foster, then the most powerful political organizer in San Francisco, went to Miami to assist gay activists there as election day neared, and a nationwide boycott of orange juice was organized.

In a village near Milwaukee, hundreds staged a boycott.

By the 1970s, the Olympics were assailed by political boycotts, drug scandals and the near bankruptcy of Montreal in 1976.

As the runoff drew near, however, Pinto da Costa announced that he was boycotting it, citing alleged irregularities in the first round of voting.

According to Min Clough, whose two children attend a primary school near Ipswich, the point of the boycott is protest, not disruption.