Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Indian Claims Commission
- abbreviation International Chamber of Commerce
- abbreviation Interstate Commerce Commission
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- initialism banking International Chamber of Commerce
- initialism cricket the International Cricket Council
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- noun a former independent federal agency that supervised and set rates for carriers that transported goods and people between states; was terminated in 1995
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Examples
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Specifically, the ICC is an organization whose precepts go against fundamental American notions of sovereignty, checks and balances, and national independence.
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Apart from the risk that the ICC might someday pursue Americans, Prosper told National Journal's Corine Hegland (see NJ, 1/22/05, p. 215), the ICC is a bad instrument for redressing the wounds of war-torn societies.
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Apart from the risk that the ICC might someday pursue Americans, Prosper told National Journal's Corine Hegland (see NJ, 1/22/05, p. 215), the ICC is a bad instrument for redressing the wounds of war-torn societies.
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The ICC is of course already shown it only going to prosecute low risk Serbs and Africans.
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The ICC is not a body of the UN, but theoretically may work with the ICJ to determine a case of aggression independently of the Security Council.
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The ICC is self-appointed and self-annointed and therefore, legally speaking, an oxymoron.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Garzon and the Trouble with International Law” 2010
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The ICC is not a body of the UN, but theoretically may work with the ICJ to determine a case of aggression independently of the Security Council.
Could George W. Bush Be Charged With War Crimes? : Law is Cool 2009
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But indirectly, the ICC is on more leashes than I can count.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Garzon and the Trouble with International Law” 2010
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That said, the ICC is not a sovereign nation and the extradition framework need not apply.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Garzon and the Trouble with International Law” 2010
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Only the ICC is ready, willing, and able to start investigating war crimes in Darfur now.
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