Sentence examples for extend its moratorium from inspiring English sources

Once they get going, the envoy implies, America will press Israel to extend its moratorium.

Nothing can happen in these waters, however, unless Congress chooses not to extend its moratorium, first enacted in 1981.

WASHINGTON -- President Obama called Friday for Israel to extend its moratorium on settlement construction in the West Bank as a good-will gesture to move peace talks with the Palestinians forward.

Barack Obama sought to hold the shaky Middle East peace process together today by making a direct appeal from the podium of the UN general assembly to Israel to extend its moratorium on settlement building in the occupied West Bank.

Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, and Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, remain deadlocked in discussions over whether Israel will extend its moratorium on building in the West Bank settlements — one of Abbas's conditions for continuing with negotiations.

By Samantha Henig September 30, 2010 Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, and Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, remain deadlocked in discussions over whether Israel will extend its moratorium on building in the West Bank settlements — one of Abbas's conditions for continuing with negotiations.

And in July, the government of New South Wales extended its moratorium on the use of fracking for extracting coal seam gas in response to the concerns of local communities.

The move comes as hard-won peace talks are stalled over the question of whether Israel will extend its broader construction moratorium in the West Bank.

Both sides called the climate positive and agreed to meet again in Egypt in two weeks, though no progress was visible on a key point: whether Israel would extend its soon-to-expire moratorium on construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

Mr. Netanyahu has been generally cagey about whether he will ask his government to extend the moratorium beyond its Sept. 26 deadline.

On Sunday Mr. Netanyahu offered a hint of flexibility, saying that while Israel would not extend the moratorium, it would not build the tens of thousands of housing units that are in the planning pipeline.