Sentence examples for introduced a moratorium on from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Before the Pakistani government introduced a moratorium on capital punishment in 2008, the hangman, Sabir Masih, dispatched about 200 prisoners at the gallows over a period of three years.

In 2010, the government introduced a moratorium on leases and in March 2011 appointed an advisory body of property experts, chaired by Lord Coles, together with further national property controls, including central approval for any new property costing more than £100,000.

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.

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

The British Government has said it has no plans to follow the United States and Norway by introducing a moratorium on new deep-water drilling activities in the still largely untapped area to the west of Shetland.