Sentence examples for moratorium state from inspiring English sources

Participants prolonged this "embryo-transfer moratorium" state, and remained indecisive about embryo utilization prior to the letter of notice.

At a U.N. meeting, the environmental ETC group called for a geoengineering moratorium, stating: “Bill Gates and his cloud-wrenching cronies have no right to unilaterally change our seas and skies in this way.”.

There should be a moratorium on state and federal executions.

(AP) CALENDAR Today DEATH PENALTY DEBATE -- City Council committee considers a resolution urging moratorium for state and federal executions.

This year's death penalty bombshells — a de facto national moratorium, a state abolition and the smallest number of executions in more than a decade — have masked what may be the most significant and lasting development.

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.

Cuomo said he was only heeding expert advice in making the move, which makes permanent a temporary fracking moratorium the state has had in place since 2008.

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.