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A 1985 city ordinance prohibited the use of city funds and resources to assist federal immigration enforcement—the defining characteristic of a sanctuary city in the US. [21] As of 2018, more than 560 cities, states and counties considered themselves sanctuaries. [15] Some have questioned the accuracy of the term "sanctuary city" as used in ...
The United States has imposed two-thirds of the world's sanctions since the 1990s. [2] In 2024, the Washington Post said that the United States imposed "three times as many sanctions as any other country or international body, targeting a third of all nations with some kind of financial penalty on people, properties or organizations". [3]
The United States has imposed economic sanctions on multiple countries, such as France, United Kingdom and Japan since the 1800s. Some of the most famous economic sanctions in the history of the United States of America include the Boston Tea Party against the British Parliament, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act against its trading partners and the 2002 steel tariff against China. [1]
A sanction may be either a permission or a restriction, depending upon context, as the word is an auto-antonym. Examples of sanctions include: Government and law
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In December 2020, Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia Beryl A. Howell wrote in a Memorandum Opinion that "in the last five years, two individuals were convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 1904," citing statistics received from the United States Sentencing Commission. [UvG 1]
The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to the convictions of General Motors (GM) and related companies that were involved in the monopolizing of the sale of buses and supplies to National City Lines (NCL) and subsidiaries, as well as to the allegations that the defendants conspired to own or control transit systems, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Individuals designated as terrorists by the United States government (6 C, 93 P) Individuals sanctioned by the United States Department of State (1 C, 26 P) Iranian entities subject to U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions (10 C, 75 P)