Similar words: oratorio, auditorium, orator, oratory, laboratory, triumvirate, equatorial, commemorate. Meaning: n. 1. a legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged 2. suspension of an ongoing activity.
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61 By 1986, the Commission had passed a moratorium on commercial whaling.
62 They said their governments would commit to a moratorium on nuclear-weapons testing and seek to put in place a global treaty banning the production of weapons-grade nuclear fuel.
63 The moratorium remains in place today, though some countries still hunt whales in the name of scientific research.
64 The United Nations has declared a moratorium on oceanic iron-fertilization studies, and the International Maritime Organization has also limited research.
65 Today the bank will be in the open market, one - year moratorium on issuing bank bills.
66 Any further watering down of that moratorium resolution will really result in an absolutely non-committal and non-productive sort of settlement.
67 Jean Ziegler, the UN's independent expert on the right to food, calls the growing use of crops to replace petrol as a crime against humanity and wants a five-year moratorium on biofuel production.
68 A moratorium would at least buy time to look a bit harder for those fragile peaks.
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