Sentence examples for a moratorium in from inspiring English sources

Qatar imposed a moratorium in 2005 for fear that rapid production could damage the reservoir.

He did not call for a moratorium in his keynote speech.

Nebraska's Legislature voted for a moratorium in 1999, but the governor vetoed it.

But the party did not back a move in Westminster for a moratorium in England.

Pennsylvania's governor instituted a moratorium in February to investigate the state's capital punishment system.

The administration imposed a moratorium in May on all deepwater offshore drilling while the new safety procedures were drawn up.

Some authors have recommended a clarification of the abovementioned concerns before the further implementation of protocols for uDCD [ 6, 37, 41, 42, 44], whereas others have called for a moratoria in currently active protocols [ 43].

But in an order signed on Tuesday, a state Supreme Court justice, Ferris D. Lebous, said that a moratorium adopted in December in Binghamton "fails to meet the criteria for a properly enacted moratorium" and so was invalid.

Journalist Scott Sabatini has been reporting on a moratorium "movement" in California that has resulted in the Greenlining Institute lobbying Sheila Bair and Congress for a national freeze.

During the presidential campaign, George Bush supported a moratorium, long in place, blocking new leasing of fields in parts of the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

"There was a moratorium right in the middle of the big whale slaughter in the 1930's," says Rob De Salle of the natural history museum.