(v. t.) To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott.
(n.) The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion.
Example Sentences:
(1) As 1,000 fishing boats were on their way to the islands the Chinese know as Diaoyu and the Japanese call the Senkaku, the People's Daily warned on Monday that the incident could lead to a full-blown trade boycott.
(2) Fry, who has more than six million followers on Twitter, is an influential voice in the campaign to boycott the Sochi Games, comparing the situation to the decision to hold the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany.
(3) However, this boycott ended after a mere six days on Tuesday when Trump appeared on O’Reilly’s show.
(4) I support the boycott discourse, but in order to develop this discourse, we need highly developed political consciousness.
(5) On top of that, Colorado might have trouble even obtaining the drugs necessary to perform an execution, since a European-led boycott limited access to the drugs .
(6) In August, the capital came to a standstill as terrified workers were forced to stay home after gang leaders orchestrated a forced public transport boycott by killing a dozen bus drivers in response to a crackdown by authorities against organised crime.
(7) With calls to boycott Amazon over its corporation tax avoidance, taxpayers may be glad of alternatives.
(8) And Mick Brookes, general secretary of the National Association of Headteachers, which is also calling on members to back the boycott, said there were ways of moderating teacher assessment to make it more reliable.
(9) They provoked threats of a player boycott, led sponsors to withdraw support and created a racially charged image problem in the midst of the NBA playoffs that even President Barack Obama remarked upon.
(10) A spokesperson for Boycott Workfare, a grassroots organisation that has campaigned to stop forced unpaid work schemes, said the move was disgusting.
(11) David Cameron has attacked Labour's "rank hypocrisy" in calling for him to boycott the Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka as he claimed his visit to the country's war-torn north will help give a voice to the dispossessed.
(12) US hawks, such as senator Lindsey Graham, had suggested a boycott in retaliation for allowing Snowden to remain in the country.
(13) Internet chatrooms have been buzzing with messages condemning Tokyo's response, with some calling for a boycott of Japanese goods.
(14) SodaStream has come under fire from pro-Palestinian activist groups, who have called for an official boycott of all the company's products.
(15) In 2015, Pence signed an anti-LGBT bill opponents said would allow wide-scale discrimination, kicking off a furious and costly boycott of the state by much of corporate America.
(16) Despite talk of a boycott, there will be no repeat of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, when the US refused to participate, or the Los Angeles Games four years later, the subject of a similar Soviet-led boycott.
(17) With the result not in doubt and the opposition’s call for a boycott, the number of people who vote in the three-day ballot matters.
(18) We reported that George Galloway MP had called for a boycott of 'Israel's shops'.
(19) This is payback, without a doubt.” The workers recently won the support of Will Self, who supported a boycott of the venue, writing : “If the punters wake up and smell the crap coffee of corporate greed, perhaps we won’t be so keen on contributing to those revenues.
(20) There have been widespread calls on social media for a boycott of the brand after Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who are themselves gay, said: “We oppose gay adoptions.
Embargo
Definition:
(n.) An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.
(v. t.) To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nearly 740,000 people have signed a petition calling for an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia, organised by the campaign group Avaaz.
(2) An arms embargo should be imposed on Israel, the former international development secretary Andrew Mitchell has said , as he warned that the level of misery and carnage in Gaza was likely to poison the remaining goodwill in the region for generations.
(3) Sanctions bit into oil revenues and the arms embargo seemed surprisingly effective: reports suggest that Gaddafi imported less than $10m-worth of arms every year from 1992 to 2003.
(4) The aim would be to raise insurance premiums and other shipping costs, and so boost oil prices as a way of inflicting pain on the west and replacing revenues lost through the embargo.
(5) Though the president announced last Sunday that he believes Congress will finally lift the trade embargo once has he gone, even some of his own party are nervous that he has already offered too much too easily.
(6) More than 200 licences to sell British weapons to Russia , including missile-launching equipment, are still in place despite David Cameron's claim in the Commons on Monday that the government had imposed an absolute arms embargo against the country, according to a report by a cross-party group of MPs released on Wednesday.
(7) Barack Obama and secretary of state John Kerry have warned detractors that they would be unable to reimpose a multinational trade embargo if congress rejects the plans .
(8) If the embargo is eased, the government will have more access to technology and money that can be used against us.
(9) His name was not on the list circulated to the media under embargo earlier on Thursday, but there were reports of him arriving at Heathrow during the day.
(10) It also called for the international community to implement arms embargos that limit the supply of weapons and ammunition to the Syrian government.
(11) But there are plenty of pieces of anti-Cuban legislation and trade embargoes still in force, including the sweeping and draconian 1996 Helms-Burton act , which penalises foreign companies trading with Cuba.
(12) Sin embargo, la primera sección abre únicamente de 5am a 8pm y cierra los lunes por mantenimiento.
(13) But concerns grew in July when a federal court lifted an embargo on the Belo Monte licensing process, clearing the way for a bidding round later this year.
(14) The EU would stop its oil embargo and end its banking sanctions, and Iran would be allowed to participate in the Swift electronic banking system that is the lifeblood of international finance.
(15) Foreign ministers failed to agree on a weapons embargo against Ukraine , though sanctions will include a ban on the export of "equipment which might be used for internal repression", such as vans equipped with water cannon.
(16) Obama calls for lifting of Cuba embargo to 'bury the last remnant of the cold war' Read more Contests between American and Cuban sides are rare enough – it wasn’t until 1999 that the Baltimore Orioles became the first MLB team to play here since the revolution – but a chance to best a Florida team in front of the first US president here since 1928 raised the excitement to fever pitch.
(17) "Perhaps the closest antecedent is the civil wars of central America ," said an editorial posted on the widely-read news site Sin Embargo.
(18) National Coalition officials emerged from a meeting of their western and Arab backers in Rome on Thursday confident the European arms embargo would begin to crumble in the next few months and that Washington would also drop its ban on arming the rebels.
(19) Similarly, Ed Miliband argues that "we all support the idea that we should focus on the peace conference and making the peace conference in Geneva happen … But the problem is the government has put its energy into the lifting of the arms embargo, not into the peace conference."
(20) In the face of the latest embargo against the import of the Iranian oil, it was also an effort to find new customers.