Sentence examples for moratorium on state from inspiring English sources

There should be a moratorium on state and federal executions.

The bill, sponsored by Assemblyman Alfred E. Steele, a Democrat from Paterson, calls for a two-year moratorium on state executions, while their cost and effectiveness, including the alternative of life imprisonment without possibility of parole, are studied.

The House of Representatives has passed legislation (402-0) extending the moratorium on state Internet access taxes for seven years out to 2014.

When the U.S. Congress returns to work in September, it's likely to make permanent a moratorium on state and local taxes on Internet access that would otherwise expire on Nov. 1.

Led in part by Microsoft, web-oriented companies are lobbying members of Congress to pass the Internet Tax Freedom Act, which would put a moratorium on state and local levies while the subject of Internet taxation is given formal study.

A kind of moratorium on state killings was established while numerous legal issues, often centering on the Eighth Amendment, were decided in the courts.

The governors of Illinois and Maryland have ordered moratoriums on state executions for similar reasons.

A few months later, the governor of one of Brazil's big states declared a moratorium on the state's debt payments.

Before Gov. John Kitzhaber of Oregon established a moratorium on his state's death penalty last year, Christian Longo, a death row inmate, started a campaign to allow the condemned to donate their organs.

When in January Itamar Franco, the maverick governor of Minas Gerais, declared a moratorium on his state's debts, he helped to trigger the forced devaluation, days later, of Brazil's currency.

On Sept. 10, after a special five-day session, the Georgia Legislature ratified Gov. Sonny Perdue's moratorium on the state gasoline tax, about 15 cents a gallon, including an excise tax of 7.5 cents per gallon.