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How To Use moratorium In A Sentence

• The House voted to impose a one-year moratorium on nuclear testing.
• Throughout the 1990s, under the previous administration - which is no longer giving support to this moratorium - those proposals foundered.
• But Gorbachev too was influenced by Western disarmament groups, and even initiated a nuclear testing moratorium at their suggestion.
• It imposes an involuntary moratorium on a third superdistrict for two seasons.
• There is now talk of a foreclosure moratorium and a criminal investigation, because it appears that papers submitted in support of foreclosures have been submitted without verification or valid notarization. Judge H. Lee Sarokin: Who Are the Culprits in the Foreclosure Crisis: The Lenders, The Borrowers or the Congress?
• They agreed to observe the moratorium, and to resume dumping after 2007 only in consultation with other signatory states.
• There's a federal moratorium on human cloning, and there is a discussion, a national discussion and international discussion that's ongoing.
• On July 12, U.S. authorities reimposed a deepwater drilling moratorium, which has been vehemently opposed by the oil industry since it was first imposed in May but which the government says is necessary to ensure safe drilling practices. Oil Majors Building Disaster-Response System
• Lacklustre performance failed to convince many to stay once the moratorium expired, however, prompting RAB to review its business and move to delist – a move formally announced last Friday.
• The ensuing difficulty in tracing such ownership is now at the heart of the courts 'objections and the compelling argument for a government-enforced national moratorium on home foreclosures to provide sufficient time to sort this mess out. Robert Scheer: Invasion of the Robot Home Snatchers