Sentence examples for inserting a moratorium from inspiring English sources
Congress in 1982 started inserting a moratorium on Pacific and Atlantic drilling every year in the appropriations bill.
In August, 51 senators sent a letter to leaders of the appropriations committee, urging them to insert such a moratorium into either an omnibus spending bill or a shorter-term continuing resolution.
This may explain why Hun Sen issued a full moratorium on economic land concessions (ELCs) in May 2012, yet inserted a key loophole that allowed those already approved, but not yet started, to move ahead.
NEW YORK — The U.S. Postal Service is facing entrenched resistance to its selling of historic post offices, with lawmakers inserting their call for a moratorium on the sales in the recently passed omnibus spending bill.
And his aides rebuffed repeated efforts by liberals to insert language into the platform calling for universal health care, cuts in defense spending, a moratorium on capital punishment and increased spending on the poor.
I call for a moratorium on moratoriums.
Neither a moratorium nor a consensus appeared.
