The word "moratorium" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that is used to describe a period of time during which an activity is suspended. For example: The city declared a moratorium on construction in order to give residents a break from the noise and disruption.
Last November the governor of Oregon, John Kitzhaber, put a moratorium on all executions and in April Connecticut became the fifth state in as many years to abandon capital punishment altogether.
She said David Cameron was a "guy who put a wind turbine on his house and now backs a moratorium on wind and a guy who was hugging a husky but now talks about 'cutting the green crap'".
Norway and Iceland maintain commercial whaling programmes in spite of the 1986 International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium, but Japan insists its programme is scientific, while admitting that the resulting meat ends up on plates back at home.
An open and comprehensive approach is nevertheless urgently needed, along with a moratorium on new bilateral or unilateral changes.
At a meeting in August Waza suggested a two-year moratorium on dolphin drive hunts, but this was rejected by Jaza, Waza said.
Bectu deputy general secretary Luke Crawley said: "The fact that the BBC has agreed a moratorium on compulsory redundancies in unprecedented.
The final opinion polls – released on Friday ahead of a four-day moratorium on publishing surveys of voter intentions – put the centre-left Zionist Union, headed by opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog and former peace negotiator Tzipi Livni, ahead with 25 to 26 seats, and Netanyahu's Likud taking 20 to 22 in the 120-seat Knesset.
In 2012, yet another agreement – the Leap Day Deal – was signed in which the DPRK agreed to a moratorium on its nuclear and missile programs and entry for weapons inspectors, in exchange for food imports.
But while the Palestinians have stuck to their agreement to postpone pressing their case for statehood at international bodies, Israel has infringed its unannounced de facto moratorium on settlement expansion with recent moves on the retroactive legalisation of four unauthorised outposts and the construction of 300 houses at Beit El.
Its legislature has considered and failed to pass an official moratorium or permanent ban on mining since then, but the government has continued to deny all permit applications.
Japan has used a loophole in a 1986 global moratorium that allows lethal research on the mammals, but has made no secret of the fact that their meat ends up in restaurants and fish markets.
