The phrase "as a moratorium" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a temporary suspension or pause of an activity, policy, or law.
Example: "The government has decided to implement a moratorium on new construction projects as a moratorium to assess environmental impacts."
Alternatives: "as a temporary halt" or "as a pause".
Washington also has in mind steps that appear to be more far-reaching than those the North Koreans are considering, such as a moratorium on long-range rocket tests.
As a moratorium on issuing tickets for violating the city's new recycling rules comes to a close, the Bloomberg administration has been quietly urging a reluctant City Council to double the fines the city can impose.
The national school walkout last month by students against gun violence provided a timely remembrance of Columbia University's own history of student activism: the walkout took place on the same day, March 14, as a "moratorium" on classes at Columbia 50 years earlier, which was organized by students to protest the Vietnam War and accompanying military draft.
Australia believes that in addition to being a front for commercial activity, Japan's "research quota" catch of up to 1,000 whales a year violates a 1946 international convention regulating whaling, as well as a moratorium on commercial activity set by the International Whaling Commission in 1986, when the number of whales had fallen sharply.
Early on, during the more vaporous and messianic phase of his candidacy, Obama took more cautious stands than Hillary Clinton did, but this fall he began to embrace some of Clinton's positions that he had once refused to support, such as a moratorium on foreclosures and a government buyout of mortgages.
While Washington would deny any connection, food aid could serve as a sweetener for getting the North to agree to terms for a resumption of the disarmament talks, such as a moratorium on nuclear and missile tests, and opening up its nuclear facilities to outside inspection.
But there are countless others who are calling for increased recognition of their status, as well as for a moratorium on the practice of "sex reassignment surgery" of intersexed infants.
Perhaps as a result, the poll endorsed strong support for free DNA testing for inmates, as well as for a moratorium on death row cases that might be affected by DNA testing.
After Tuesday's rally, Harris told reporters that she would consider banning offshore oil drilling as well as placing a moratorium on hydraulic fracking by oil companies.
Iceland said it would resume commercial whaling as early as this week after a moratorium of nearly two decades, defying a worldwide ban on hunting whales for their meat.
And North Korea cannot do so as long as its observes a moratorium on missile flight tests, a ban it has recently agreed to extend.
