Pomfret established a moratorium on housing subdivisions while its brand-new planning and zoning commission figures out zoning regulations.
The village has established a moratorium on demolishing structures in the historic Bedford Road area until the issue has been resolved.
Before Gov. John Kitzhaber of Oregon established a moratorium on his state's death penalty last year, Christian Longo, a death row inmate, started a campaign to allow the condemned to donate their organs.
It was a meeting that, for fish, could have been as important as the 1982 meeting of the International Whaling Commission that voted to establish a moratorium on commercial whaling worldwide.
"Our hope is that a new administration voluntarily, on its own, will establish a moratorium so that it can reassess and revisit and, we hope, reform the system," Mr. Blumenthal said.
Yoshihide Suga, Japan's chief Cabinet secretary, said Wednesday that the country has decided to leave the International Whaling Commission — a multinational conservation body with more than 80 members that established a moratorium on whaling back in 1986 — and start hunting whales again in the waters around Japan.
"We urge the Saudi authorities to establish a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, halt executions of persons convicted who were children at the time of the offense, and ensure a prompt and impartial investigation into all alleged acts of torture". .
Finally, Mr. Cuccinelli, went to bat for Consol again earlier this year when he issued another advisory opinion that local jurisdictions in Virginia may not use zoning laws to establish a moratorium on fracking until they can be sure their water tables will not be polluted.
In February California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill establishing a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures of certain owner-occupied homes.
In 2007, the LA City Council adopted an Interim Control Ordinance (ICO), establishing a one-year moratorium on new storefront dispensaries.
