Sentence examples for moratorium was imposed from inspiring English sources

The water meter moratorium was imposed under an interpretation of state law that allows for restrictions on water hookups in an emergency.

The moratorium was imposed after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded on April 20 and spewed millions of gallons of oil into the gulf.

The government recently approved permits for the first new hotels in Athens since 1985, when a moratorium was imposed to protect the city's heritage and avoid overcrowding.

In the years since the moratorium was imposed, the IWC's scientists have determined that in certain waters minke, fin, Gray and Bryde's whales are now abundant enough to be hunted commercially.

The moratorium was imposed by Congress in 1983 and was then voluntarily continued by Mr. Watt's successors while they adapted the program to respond to recommendations from a commission mandated by Congress and by Congress's Office of Technology Assessment.

Had the UK carried the day, the product - known as Bt11 maize - would have been the first GM foodstuff to have been approved since 1998, when an EU-wide moratorium was imposed because of public unease about the technology.

Greens insisted that it either be tiny, or that a complete moratorium be imposed.

Should a 50-year moratorium be imposed on new police procedurals?

The suggestion by Senator Dianne Feinstein that a federal moratorium be imposed on graduate students from Middle Eastern countries (news article, Nov. 18) is not without merit.

SAN FRANCISCO--New analyses dispute the long-cherished idea that marine fish populations are not particularly vulnerable to extinction and should be able to bounce back quickly after depletion once fishing moratoriums are imposed.

Most notably, many stocks were at very low population densities at the time moratoria were imposed, and this could certainly have plastic effects on life history traits.