All rich countries subsidise their film industries to some extent to protect them against the Americans.
But the BBC's Rahimullah Yusufzai in Peshawar says they are hopelessly ill-equipped to defend themselves against the Americans.
But many mainstream politicians, especially Gaullists, have sounded off against the Americans too.
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Two important Indian leaders were brothers Tecumseh and Tenkwatawa, who convinced tribes to form a united front against the Americans.
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Ashton insisted there is "no point dwelling on what happened" against the Americans, given that the Springboks will present a "completely different" challenge.
In that sense, the Paris uprising of August 1944 was as much an uprising against the Americans as it was against the Germans.
Only days earlier Bin Laden and al-Qaeda had announced their "Declaration of war against the Americans occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places".
Moreover, the increased violence might in fact turn the locals against the Americans, as it has done elsewhere in Afghanistan, for failing to bring peace.
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Brown, an investment bank, reckons that to hold its own against the Americans, Europe can sustain only one large weapons-platform manufacturer and one defence-electronics group.
He was saddened by the squabbling newspapers, by "listening to the vague, hurt rhetoric of the politicians along the left bank, by hearing the ungenerous mutterings against the Americans".
The Iranians, who will be competing in the U.S. for the first time in 10 years, will also compete against the Americans at an exhibition in Los Angeles on May 19.
But when he first got to the Iraqi town of Fallujah in 2003 to urge Jihad against the Americans, Fallujahn residents told him to turn around and go back to Jordan.
Deduno followed up a fine outing in a win against the Americans last Thursday with another strong performance that will send him back to the Minnesota Twins with some nice momentum.
Wilkinson is now off crutches in his recovery from a twisted ankle but is still a major doubt, meaning Olly Barkley, man-of-the-match against the Americans, will almost certainly retain the number 10 jersey.
If most Sunnis in rebellious areas seem highly unlikely to vote, the prospect for places such as Sadr City, home to some 1m poor Shias in eastern Baghdad, where followers of Mr Sadr fought fiercely against the Americans last year, is still in doubt.
It was perceived as a way, at least by some analysts here, of applying pressure against the Americans and the Iraqi Kurds who rule northern Iraq to take some action against the PKK, which has operated for years out of mountain bases on the Iraqi side of the border.
They are also inventing the rationale for continued war against the retreating Americans.
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Crucially, the Germans were against intervention and the Americans were decidedly lukewarm.
This legalized discrimination against the sickest of Americans is unfair and immoral and it defeats one of the central purposes of insurance, which is to share risk.
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) spoke of atrocities committed by the federal government against Native Americans and the lack of a similar resolution on those events.
Post-war diplomatic grudges and the fall of the dollar against the euro have given Americans traditionally the world's biggest spenders while on holiday extra reasons to avoid the Old World.
The embassy statement said it has no specific threat against Americans in the UAE, but that the U.S. State Department issued a worldwide caution after Israel's assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin outside a Gaza mosque Monday.
The delay in implementing that provision, Westen says, let conservative groups run ads against the law before Americans experienced its benefits.
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Even the appearance of collaborating with the Israelis or Americans against Hamas is the last thing the new post-Arafat leadership would want to see.
During that time, troops in the field saw the mood of ordinary Iraqis turn against Americans and watched the insurgency take root.
Faced with the same question, Obama pointed out that African-Americans had high unemployment rates long "before the latest round of immigrants showed up" and cautioned against using the immigration issue to divide Americans.
There's a real risk that weapons could end up in the wrong hands, used against Americans or other Syrian opposition groups in the ongoing struggle for Syria and between Sunnis and Shiites.
Many Iranian campaigners advised the Americans against providing the dollars because they predicted such consequences.
Ex-President Suharto was a reliable bulwark against communism, leading the Americans to overlook some of his other transgressions.
Nothing will do you good, but toting arms and taking revenge against your enemies, the Americans and the Jews.
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