Sentence examples similar to arbitrary moratorium from inspiring English sources

The judge, who owns stock in oil-related companies, described oil and gas drilling as "elemental" to gulf communities and said he was certain a higher court would find the moratorium "arbitrary and capricious".

Concluding that the decision to impose the moratorium was "arbitrary and capricious," he wrote, "An invalid agency decision to suspend drilling of wells in depths of over 500 feet simply cannot justify the immeasurable effect on the plaintiffs, the local economy, the gulf region, and the critical present-day aspect of the availability of domestic energy in this country".

Even if you wanted individual assessments, the decision not to conduct this kind of review before issuing a moratorium is not arbitrary and capricious.

That April, Christof Heyns, the UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, recommended that countries "establish national moratoria on aspects of LARs [lethal autonomous robotics]" and called for the establishment of a high-level panel to craft a policy for the international community on the technology.

Christof Heyns - the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights – called for a moratorium on such technology to prevent their deployment on the battlefield.

The state's junior senator, Claire McCaskill, a Democrat who is one of the few senators to refuse to seek earmarks, calling them arbitrary and unfair, has been pushing recently to corral Democratic votes for a moratorium.

Tonight's talk in Geneva will include an address by Christof Heyns - the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - who will call for a moratorium on such technology to prevent their deployment on the battlefield.

Christof Heyns, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, will address the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Thursday and call for a worldwide moratorium on what he calls "lethal autonomous robotics" – weapons systems that, once activated, can lock on and kill targets without further involvement of human handlers.

The moratorium was struck down by a lower court on June 22 by a federal judge who found it arbitrary and economically ruinous to industry.

He portrayed the Interior Department's record in support of the moratorium as inadequate and misleading, saying that a preliminary injunction was necessary because the suspension would likely be ruled "arbitrary and capricious" after a trial.

A moratorium.