Example sentences of "[vb pp] a boycott " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their detentions had been widely criticized , and lawyers had threatened a boycott of the courts in support of demands by the Lagos High Court that the men be brought to court and that their trial be held in the city rather than in a remote location . |
| 2 | In the Gold Coast the last sentiment was potentially practical politics , for mass politicisation had begun among two important sections of the people of the coast , the cocoa farmers and the ex-servicemen : indeed , the cocoa farmers had first flexed their muscles in 1937 when they refused to sell to the European firms who bought 98 per cent of their crop ( fixing the market ) and also imposed a boycott on European imports . |
| 3 | ( In June 1989 the PDS had declared a boycott of the Assembly in protest at what it claimed was insufficient opposition access to the media . ) |
| 4 | Nenad Bucin , the representative for Montenegro and a strong supporter of the Serbian cause , similarly declared a boycott of the Collective State Presidency , stating that he could " not reconcile himself to the processes of deliberate disintegration " going on in the country . |
| 5 | Islamic groups led by the League of the Sons of Yemen and the Yemen Reform Group [ see p. 38075 ] had urged a boycott of the referendum , and staged a rally in San'aa , the capital , on May 12 in which an estimated 25,000-30,000 people participated . |