The controversy prompted one local politician to call for locals to boycott the performances, but this was largely ignored and the premiere was sold out.

However, the Methodist Federation did call for a boycott of Japan, which had invaded China and was disrupting missionary activity there.

* March 24 – Jews call for a boycott of German goods.

She however did not call for a boycott of the 2008 Summer Olympics that were held in Beijing.

* 1990, August 27: Over 7000 monks meet in Mandalay, in Burma, to call for a boycott of the military.

The AFL refused to call for a boycott of Carnegie products in September 1892.

The incident prompted Patrick to join the call for a boycott of the paper.

ANSWER was more prominent in the promotion of a May Day " Day Without An Immigrant " strike and boycott, because this call was controversial within the immigrant rights movement, contributing to a growing division between its left-wing advocates and moderates who believed a strike and boycott would be counterproductive.

" The call for a boycott resulted in action by some Catholic groups in the US and Canada, and a Catholic school board in Ontario has ordered the source novel removed from its library shelves.

Pullman has since said that the books do not have a religious agenda, saying of Donohue's call for a boycott, " Why don't we trust readers?

German authorities call for boycott of new President.

McKinney chose to be an active participant in the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina, despite the Democratic Party leadership's call for Democratic members to boycott the committee.

Shortly after the measure was signed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, Grijalva called on legal, political, activist and business groups not to hold their conventions or conferences in the state, a position that he said quickly became misconstrued as a call for a general boycott of the state economy.

The main reason was Grijalva's call for a boycott of Arizona in response to the state's new immigration law, SB 1070.

Marie, North Bay and Timmins began to call for a boycott of MCTV news, and local companies began offering web-based sources of local news, weather and sports information.

Schama was critical of a call by British novelist John Berger for an academic boycott of Israel over its policies towards the Palestinians.

Writing in The Guardian in an article co-authored with lawyer Anthony Julius, Schama compared Berger's academic boycott to policies adopted by Nazi Germany, noting " This is not the first boycott call directed at Jews.

The compromise led residents to call off their boycott of Metrobus.

Proctor opposed the call to boycott the Moscow Olympics in 1980 on libertarian grounds.

His call for France to boycott the 2008 Summer Olympics drew criticism at home and internationally.

The compromise led residents to call off their boycott of Metrobus.

This caused a member of AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ( ACT UP ), a gay AIDS organization, to call for a boycott of all of Maxis ' products, a measure which Servin rejected.

It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.

The first news stories had it that this blaze was started by a bolt of lightning, as though Miriam could call down fire from heaven like a prophet of the Old Testament.

Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.

It was one thing to call men to the colors ; ;

It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.

He is said to have reported that once, when she went to a hospital to call on a friend after a serious operation, and the friend protested that it had been `` nothing '', she replied, `` Well, it was your healthy American peasant blood that pulled you through ''.

Lewis looked at him and began to cry, and then, saying that he was going to make a promise, he asked Blackman to call the porter and to tell him to take out all the liquor that he did not want.

The impression was unmistakable that, whatever one may choose to call it, natural law is a functioning generality with a certain objective existence.

It was the call of the wild all right.

I promised to illustrate the lecture, if they so much as breathed till after the call was completed.

They had been kind to us and we were indebted to them for one or two pleasant dinners, and for information as to where to shop, which dentist, doctor, plumber, and sitter to call ( not that there was much of a choice, since Catatonia was just a village ; ;

The manager of a movie theater received a telephone call from a woman who was equally indefinite.

An excited woman was making an emergency call over the phone: `` Doctor, please come over right away.

Private international law ( which Americans call the `` conflict of laws '' ) was thus segregated from international law proper, or, as it is often called, public international law.

Cubism, in its 1911-1912 phase ( which the French, with justice, call `` hermetic '' ) was on the verge of abstract art.

( Jelke later served 21 months when he was found guilty of masterminding a ring of high-priced call girls.

With infinite patience she responded to every call, no matter at what cost to herself, and to her all went, for she was sure to have the needed information or word of cheer.

He figured his best bet was a call on the sheriff.

Next on his program was a call to the Jackson office of Peerless Business Machines to find out if Vincent Black was still with them -- or, more specifically, still with us.

She had skipped her lunch hour in the fear that he might call while she was out.