But the American position suffered a blow Monday when Australia's new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd signed papers to ratify the Kyoto Protocol climate pact.
The American position remained, he said, that all its nationals on another country's soil should be exempt from prosecution by the ICC.
If that remains the American position, Mr Arafat has other exits.
Unsurprisingly, most bankers loathe this idea and support the American position.
In both cases, the American position has some intellectual merit.
The perception of the American position wasn't all deliberate.
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Mr. HUNTER: Well I think that this is a time, I think, that the American position, this is solidarity, the American people, and both houses of Congress, with their president, is something that's being watched by our allies and our adversaries And our adversaries feel that they have splintered the American government.
Ambassador Locke is the first Chinese-American to hold the position of U.S. Ambassador to China.
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Yacktman has also made a sizable return on his relatively minor position in American Express.
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Demonization of the enemy is the general default position of American message-making against international threats, but it can go only so far.
Simons also played his chips, taking up positions in MasterCard and competitor Visa, while closing out his position in American Express.
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While Chrysler would never be the Ford Motor Company or General Motors, both man and company were to occupy a prime position in American motor history.
Controversially, this plunged the court into the mainstream of American politics, a position it retains today despite a retreat from Warren-style activism over the past two decades.
Antitrade activists frequently suggest that free trade is a "race to the bottom" and lobby for currency depreciation in order to improve the export position of American firms.
Mr. Cooper "has great and abiding respect for traditions embodied in law a historic position in American jurisprudence, " said Mr. Starr, who defended Proposition 8 to the California Supreme Court in 2009.
The official position of the American Catholic Church is not to urge a boycott.
Mr Dudley being an American is in a strong position to get that message .
It has misrepresented the position of mainstream American Jewish groups on the ideological spectrum.
This leaves American Express in the enviable position of being able to more aggressively issue cards than its competitors given its low charge off rates.
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The position of the American economy as the leader in information technologies combined with the investments in the American defence budget make it very unlikely that the United States will lose this lead.
It's so essential that we all work together in the public interest to bring our states and the American people back to a position of prosperity so that we can move our country into a prosperous future.
That distrust is also shared by many in Europe and the prime minister faced the daunting - some say impossible - task of trying to bridge the gap between the views of 'old Europe', led by France and Germany, and the unflinching position of the American administration.
He was also the first African-American to serve in his previous position as the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army.
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The BBC's Kim Ghattas in Washington says Mr Panetta's remark is the first time a senior American official has publicly taken this position.
Alamoudi took a position at the affiliated American Muslim Foundation but remained in control of the AMC through friendly board members, the reformers said.
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Even the French press now seems to have woken up to the fact that Anglo-American criticism of France's position is of a different order than usual.
And so happens, he also was the first African American ever to hold such a position as a coach in a Major League sports team of any sort.
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