5 sentences with 'boycott'
Example sentences and phrases with the word boycott and other words derived from it.
• « Unable to invade Britain after the Battle of Trafalgar, Napoleon tried to strangle Britain economically with a European boycott of British goods, creating what he hoped would be a self-sustaining internal European economy: the "Continental System". »
• « The Daughters of Liberty promoted the boycott of British goods while the Sons enforced it, threatening reprisals against anyone who bought imported goods or used stamp paper. »
• « The Daughters of Liberty once again supported and promoted the boycott of British goods. The women resumed bee-spinning and again found substitutes for British tea and other products. »
• « The boycott of 1768-1769 turned the purchase of consumer goods into a political gesture. It mattered what was consumed. Indeed, the very clothes you wore indicated whether you were a defender of liberty at home or a protector of parliamentary rights in superfine British attire. »