The rules of international law are of a normative character, that is, they prescribe towards conduct, and are potentially designed for authoritative interpretation by an international judicial authority and by being capable of enforcement by the application of external sanctions. ... Consequently, both parties have the obligation to keep inder review the fishery resources in the disputed waters and to examine together, in the light of scientific and other available information, the measures required for the conservation and development, and equitable exploitation, of these reso...

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James Madison the prominent character of the film is portrayed as a man in distress over the condition of America. ... Though the issue was debated over by some state representatives, the measure eventually passed. ...

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During the writing process Fitzgerald was inspired by his own life and some of his own characteristics can be found in the two male lead characters. ... Most of the characters in the novel are members of the upper class and are very rich. ... These characters, the newly rich, are the citizens of the West Egg. ... „He hadn't once ceased at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. ... The characters from the East Egg, such as Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan, represent the old aristocracy. ...

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Secondly, the threat of losing petroleum resources is enough to drive governments to drastic measures. ... There is a personable feel as the reader becomes better acquainted with the characters and sympathizes for them and the decisions they make. ... This installment of the Jack Ryan saga, Clancy's main character, was published in 1994. ... His writing mechanics and techniques of reader manipulation keep readers filled with suspense and compassion for the characters until the book's end. ...

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The administration and advocates for preemptive war deduce a direct; specific, concrete focused at the U.S. threat from Sadaam's criminal record, evil character, and the fact he used poison gas during his war with Iran, and against his own people in the 1980's and the brutal repression he has resorted to since. ... If our basic problem is that Sadaam is an evil ruler with hostile and dangerous attitudes and purposes, and if the only solution to that problem we will accept is to get rid of him right now then the problem truly is irreconcilable by peaceful measures. ...

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The NRA also believes that human character defects cannot be changed by a simple regulation of guns. ... According to the NRA, anti-crime measures are the way to conquer urban violence, not anti-gun measures. ...

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On of these studies was performed by Gerbener and his colleagues (1979), they reported that since they began monitoring television shows in the 1967-68 season, 80 percent of the programmes contained violence and about 60 percent of the characters where involved in it. ... This shows television programs oriented to kids had a measure of the number of violence acts. ...

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But for this man she was just "an Evita or a Maria: merely a character in his cartoon-populated universe." ... The story of her career shows in full measure how the Latin women are seen in the USA and in England. ...

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Okada also mentions a character named Herman Fine who was a Jew. ... The Japanese cabinet had approved a measure extending the draft to include men from ages fifteen to sixty and women from seventeen to forty-five (an additional 28 million people). ...

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Two companies that received the most publicity for their advertising are Marlboro and Camel with their fictional characters the "Marlboro Man" and "Joe Camel." ... The best way to sum up tobacco and advertising comes from this quote in US News, "Is it the use of a cartoon character in an ad proof that you are targeting children? ... Now the only thing left for us to do is possibly find some sort of measures to curtail this cigarette smoking uprising. ...

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Nevertheless, it is best to comprehend key factors and characters in this revolution prior to perusing what the authors have of saying. ... Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, a Mexican totalitarian, undertook the pursuit of trying to put an end to the drift of Americans to Texas via the measures and means of enforcing the collection of customs duties, and abolishing slavery. ... He brings all famous characters to life, and delivers vivid descriptions of events of import. ...

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The character played by Jack Nicholson in Easy Rider, a small-town liberal lawyer, felt an exuberant sense of liberation traveling with his motorcycle buddies; he was murdered by Southern rednecks bitterly envious of his freedom. ... The character played by Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces still believes in the mystique of the open road. ...

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s 1948 Convention on Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide, "a) killing members of the group; b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."... Characters in this book all struggle to survive through this genocide, but sometimes, they can no longer handle the pain and give up. ...

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This movie a positive insight to the war through the main character. ... Also, the Boston Tea Party caused the king to take overly drastic measures: he laid Boston under siege (Rosenfeld). ...

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Yoruba People An Overview: History, Geography, Ecology, Subsistence, Technology The Yoruba People, of whom there are more than twenty-five million, occupy the southwestern corner of Nigeria along the border with Benin Republic and extends into Benin Republic itself. To the east and north the Yoruba culture reaches its approximate limits in the region of the Niger River. However ancestral cultures directly related to the Yoruba once flourished well north of the Niger. Portuguese explorers "discovered" (for the Europeans) the Yoruba cities and kingdoms in the fifteenth century, but citie...

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Since the Civil War, much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts, "freedom rides," and rallies received national attention in the struggle to end racial inequality. There were also continuing efforts to legally challenge segregation through the courts. Following the "separate but equal" decision of Plessy V. Ferguson in 1896, many Americans decided to push f...

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