Sentence examples for upheld a moratorium from inspiring English sources
First the good news: Thanks to the long-time work of numerous Arizona groups and public officials, Salazar upheld a moratorium on a million-acre zone of uranium mining claims, assuring federal protection for Arizona's singular natural heritage: The Grand Canyon state.
Then, like something out of mythology, the creator of a force capable of destroying the world tried to save it; Sakharov turned against the bomb, calling on Khrushchev to uphold a moratorium on nuclear testing, and then became the leader of the dissident movement.
Mr. Brennan said the idea for the new legislation could be traced back to his days as a student at Brooklyn Law School, when he first learned about a 1934 Supreme Court case, Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell, that upheld a Minnesota foreclosure moratorium.
The State Senate on Tuesday sent the bill to the Democratic governor, who supports capital punishment but has upheld an 11-year moratorium on executions imposed by a predecessor after a spate of wrongful convictions.
In Toronto, officials upheld a ban last month.
Her decision upheld a U.S. District Court opinion.
We will continue to work within the Commission to uphold the global moratorium on commercial whaling".
A moratorium, it added, "would reaffirm the principle that science can progress while upholding the community's moral norms".
Neither a moratorium nor a consensus appeared.
