Sentence examples for introduced a moratorium from inspiring English sources

Almost 150 countries have now either abolished the death penalty in law or in practice, or introduced a moratorium.

Such is the concern that New York has introduced a moratorium on exploration of gas in the state while safety concerns are looked into.

In collaboration with Unesco, the government of Belize has adopted new environmental management laws and a protection plan, and introduced a moratorium on offshore drilling.

But work stopped when the regional Catalan government introduced a moratorium on new building in the region, which includes the Cap de Creus national park.

In Austria the cost of complying with environmental regulations makes shale gas uneconomic.Farther east, public disapproval is not as fierce, although the Czech Republic recently introduced a moratorium, Bulgaria has one in place and Romania only recently lifted its ban.

Mr Yudhoyono seemed a foreign-affairs heavyweight compared with Jokowi, a former mayor with no foreign-policy experience.Yet even before the latest executions (Mr Yudhoyono introduced a moratorium on capital punishment), Jokowi had signalled a break with the past.

We need to follow Obama's lead and introduce a moratorium on deepwater drilling".

On October 9 the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Belarus, Miklos Haraszti, urged the country to introduce a moratorium on executions.

Although the timber requirement is now falling, every bill to introduce a moratorium on new roads has failed.

But the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change appears unlikely to introduce a moratorium, at least in the near term.

The Government must step in right now and stop this by introducing a moratorium on deep water drilling.