SOME LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE JUSTICE AGAINST SPONSORS OF TERRORISM ACT by W. Fahmy

“…Senate on May 17, 2016, the House of Representatives of the United States of America unanimously adopted the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), which will allow victims of terrorism to bring class actions against any state directly or indirectly involved in terrorist acts against American citizens. U.S. president Barack Obama attempted to impose his veto against this legislation, but was overridden by both houses in September, 2016. …”
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Maine’s Mode of Privateering: A Tale of Fraud and Collusion in the Northeast Borderlands, 1812–1815 by Edward J. Martin

“…These commissions or licenses allowed American citizens to fit out privately armed vessels to seize British ships. …”
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Kettles of hawks: public opinion on the nuclear taboo and noncombatant immunity in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Israel by Dill, J, Sagan, SD, Valentino, BA

“…Rather, Israeli respondents display the most hawkish preferences; French and American citizens are roughly equally hawkish; and the British public is consistently the least supportive of nuclear use or targeting civilians. …”

From Promoting Political Polyarchy to Defeating Participatory Democracy: U.S. Foreign Policy towards the Far Left in Latin America by Timothy M Gill

“…While much of Latin America remained characterized by polyarchies throughout the late 20th Century, Latin American citizens began to reject these political arrangements and to elect anti-neoliberal candidates that promoted participatory democracy by the turn of the 21st Century, particularly in Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. …”
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The Japanese American Experience Through Literature: Joy Kogawa’s Obasan and Mitsuye Yamada’s Poetry by María Isabel Seguro Gómez

“…Joy Kogawa and Mitsuye Yamada were two of the first voices that emerged breaking the silence of Canadian and American citizens of Japanese origin. They explore the ways in which the racist policies of their respective countries had affected not only their own lives, but also that of their ancestors and of the younger generations.…”
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“The Heart of this People is in its right place”: The American Press and Private Charity in the United States during the Irish Famine by Paweł Hamera

“…Congress did not decide to earmark any money for the support of famine-stricken Ireland, the horrors taking place in this part of the British Empire pulled at American citizens’ heartstrings and they contributed munificently to the help of the Irish people. …”
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Measuring Openness to Political Pluralism by Patrick E. Shrout, Mao Mogami, Qi Xu, Yasaman Ghodse-Elahi, Elizabeth Mutter, Matthew T. Riccio, Timothy J. Valshtein, V. Baadan, Shahrzad Goudarzi

“…In an era of increased political polarization, it is important to measure how receptive US American citizens are to diverse political views. Being more open to diverse political viewpoints—openness to political pluralism—may involve holding emotional and intellectual tolerance, non-rigidity, and proactive motivation to seek out different political perspectives. …”
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The White House saga by Daković Nevena

“…Smith Goes to Washington, 1939) to the focal points at the White House; from Capra's comedy to the saga of the fight against terrorism led by the president and both ordinary and trained American citizens (White House Down, 2013, Roland Emmerich).…”
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Applying Moving Objects Patterns towards Estimating Future Stocks Direction by Galal Dahab, Hassan Nada, Elzanfaly Doaa S.

“…As a result, almost 66% of all American citizens are striving in their respective fields every day, trying to come up with better ways to predict and find patterns in stocks that could enhance their estimation and visualization so as to have the opportunity to take better investment decisions. …”
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Letting nature speak: differential impacts of reacting environmental issues on environmental discourses & emotions by Teo, Jing Kai

“…Study 1 involved 27 Singaporean undergraduates, while Study 2 involved 126 American citizens, participants completed an online questionnaire exploring the relationships between environmental discourse, emotions, and pro-environmental behaviors. …”
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La Petenera y la máquina del tiempo del flamenco: una lente hacia los inmigrantes invisibles de las plantaciones de azúcar de Hawái by Nicole Henares

“…My aunt and my uncle recorded a petenera shortly after they became American citizens. In 1924 the United States started an immigration quota on Spain, declared it a “shithole country” that was sending over only anarchists and deviants. …”
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The U.S. public opinion regarding the USSR at the initial stage of the German-Soviet war: religion aspect by Eduard Khodun

“…The author comes to the conclusion that the religious consciousness of American citizens had a significant impact on the adoption of important political decisions, and on the issue of alliance with the USSR at the beginning of the German-Soviet war, the religious part of American society proposed two possible models of solution: the absolute exclusion of any support for the USSR from the United States and, on the contrary, the establishment of temporary cooperation for early victory over the common enemy. …”
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The American Government and “Total War” on COVID-19 by Christopher Griffin

“…In the Economic Impact Payment letter to American citizens in Spring 2020, President Donald Trump wrote that “we wage total war on this invisible enemy.” …”
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The problem of American Loans and Credits for Czechoslovakia in 1945–1948 by A. V. Zorin

“…Particular attention is paid to Steingardt’s position and his attempts to determine American loans and credits to Prague by upholding the property interests of American citizens. These disagreements hindered the development of a single thoughtful course regarding the Czechoslovak Republic and complicated diplomatic relations with Prague; negotiations on the allocation of large loans for the economic recovery of the Czechoslovak Republic dragged on. …”
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“Not the time for fighting but for taking care of each other”: Portrayals of the Second World War in Two Asian-American Plays by Ifeta Čirić-Fazlija

“…This paper examines Wakako Yamauchi’s representation of the state-controlled relocation of Asian-American citizens and their consequent experiences, in her play 12-1-A; and Velina Hasu Houston’s portrayal of the Second World War’s ideological and socio-economic repercussions in the Japanese community, in Asa Ga Kimashita (Morning Has Broken).…”
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Problem of Compensation for American Property in Czechoslovakia in 1945–1948 by Artyom Viktorovich Zorin

“…However, the policy was accompanied by several serious problems and contradictions, e.g. the US relations with Czechoslovakia concerning the compensation for the nationalised and requisitioned property of American citizens. Conducted to improve and recover its economy within the socialist reforms course, the measures were perceived in the US as evidence of an increased Communist and Soviet influence. …”
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Muslims as Co-Citizens in the West-Rights, Duties, Limits and Prospects by Murad Wilfried Hofmann

“…There are already six million Muslims in the United States, virtually all of them American citizens, with an impressive and growing infrastructure. …”
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Exploring the relationship between serum Vitamin D and shift work by Zhe-Yu Yang, Chung-Ching Wang, Ying-Jen Chen, Chia-Kuang Tsai, Peng-Fei Li, Tao-Chun Peng, Yu-Shan Sun, Wei-Liang Chen

“…The aim of this paper was to investigate the relation between serum 25(OH) D level and shift work in the American citizens. Methods: From the 2005–2006 NHANES, a total of 3025 participants were included. …”
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Two Types of Events in Border Crossing Narratives of Contemporary Travelogues

“…What may be a type I event or non-event for “trusted” travelers (e.g. American citizens or Russian shoppers in Heihe) may easily mean a type II or even the final event (death) for the “undesirables” (e.g. …”
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The International Criminal Court at the crossroads by Abdelwahab Biad

“…Another diffi culty is the opposition of the United States of America which, since the Bush Administration, has deployed a juridical arsenal with the aim of impeding any type of collaboration with the ICC; the tools in the arsenal include the American Service Members’ Protection Act and bilateral immunity agreements which prevent the transfer of American citizens to the Court by State members of the Rome Statute. …”
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