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The U. S. is trying to retain the total medal supremacy (by its count) it's held since boycotting the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

We exchange polite smiles, and I resist the urge to blurt out that I am boycotting Chinese goods for a year but that it's nothing personal.

Yes, under the globalization context, boycotting is sort of a double-bladed sword.

Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, said he could not rule out boycotting the opening ceremony for the games.

I'm boycotting Chinese passport holders for a year if the execution goes ahead.

Boycotting in Islam is only permissible when it has a beneficial impact of exerting pressure on the person to return to the fold.

As EU president, Sarkozy said he was contemplating boycotting the Olympics, although he attended in the end.

There are varied reasons. And of these, the disgusting and boycotting to the environmental administrative coercion is very important.

The main opposition parties are boycotting next month's poll, claiming that it will be far from an exercise in democracy.

This has even spawned an anti-corporate coffee counterculture, with those subscribing to this culture boycotting big business coffee chains.

"They are basically boycotting the registry across the board, " says Olivier Hoedeman of the Corporate European Observatory.

Monica: And I assume, Chandler, you are still boycotting all the pilgrim holidays.

Boycotting Carrefour may be a ridicule of itself and Chinese themselves will suffer.

Their jingoism alienated supporters among Bangkok's middle classes. They got little kudos for boycotting the elections (see article).

But with the main opposition parties boycotting the vote there is no genuine competition.

Many voters will have no idea which party is boycotting what particular level of election.

The Prime Minister's critics have accused him of corruption and the main opposition parties are boycotting the poll in protest.

Bloggers launched a vast campaign boycotting a song she released online and an online game she endorsed.

Problems in the talks erupted in public today with African nations boycotting meetings, forcing their cancellation.

Since last month Macedonia's opposition Social Democrats, boycotting parliament, have wanted an early poll.

After 382 days of boycotting the bus system, the Supreme Court declared that the Alabama state segregation law was unconstitutional.

Besides, Mr Arman and the other politicians supposedly boycotting the election still appear on the ballot papers.

There's talk that investors are thinking about buying euro-zone bonds again after boycotting some markets.

Relatives of some victims are boycotting the court, and donors look twitchy.

Several channels are boycotting Syrian productions in protest at the violent crackdown on dissent by the government in Damascus.

Now investors, worried about the value of the mortgage-backed debt, are boycotting the commercial paper.

Equally dangerous, militant anti-Thaksinites, the yellow shirts, are boycotting the vote altogether.

Boycotting the Olympics, an event the Chinese see as their coming out party, will only be viewed as a slap in the face.

And so, the long awaited summit took place, but not without Lebanon boycotting it. The results of the summit?

Three top models are boycotting English fashion designer Alexander McQueen's next fashion show because of his 25cm high-heel shoes.

People are boycotting beef products imported from the foreign country.

I'm boycotting Chinese passport holders fora year if the execution goes ahead.

They have been boycotting parliament ever since 20 members of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) were elected in 2007.

That makes it hard to recommend that people take measures like boycotting gold, which is unlikely to happen anyway.

If voters pick boycotting candidates, will the winners take up their seats?

Although it can't cure this stubborn illness, struggle is the only method to boycotting it.

But with opposition groups boycotting the event, it is more of a regime pow-wow.

Western consumers can hardly begin boycotting Chinese goods at this stage.

They got little kudos for boycotting the elections (see article).

And the US "plus its allies " is boycotting the SCO conference.

Boycotting her is akin to burning the bridge, and this may have a far more disastrous effect.

Students are not workers so in the strict legal sense they cannot strike. But they can show their support by boycotting lectures.

Remember the poison Chinese pet foods here? I am boycotting all products from China.

As a result, Jordan's Brotherhood branch is boycotting this year's poll.

The act or an instance of boycotting .

He is boycotting the trial because he says he needs more time to prepare his defence.

Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party is boycotting the polls because of what it calls unfair and undemocratic election laws.

Nobody in China is boycotting the movie, except a couple of nutcases.

I am boycotting the elections.

They' re boycotting the shop because the people who work there are on strike to boycott a meeting.

are boycotting the shop because the people who work there are on strike to boycott a meeting.

They're boycotting the shop because the people there are on strike.

They are boycotting that shop, because the people there are on strike.

Movement of boycotting Japan by overseas Chinese during the Anti-Japanese War and its contributions

We just started boycotting a long time ago