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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31 And he will maintain the three-year moratorium on the interest that farmers pay on loans.
32 There is little comfort for foreign creditors hoping for an end to the six-month moratorium on debt payments.
33 So state regulators are imposing a moratorium on new sewer hookups.
34 But then congress intervened by imposing a two year moratorium on all dumping.
35 The suggestion for a moratorium on nuclear testing, with its overtones of propaganda, was old and unexciting.
36 The moratorium on national curriculum change gives a small opportunity for professional development courses to grow.
37 In 1972, the Legislature, under pressure from anti-hunting groups and other wildlife associations, imposed a moratorium on hunting lions.
38 Maybe we can now expect the Government to react with some form of moratorium, at least until after April 9.
39 Supervisor Mabel Teng is also readying legislation to impose an 18-month moratorium on owner move-in evictions of elderly tenants.
40 In 1992(sentencedict.com), Mr Mitterrand imposed a moratorium on the explosions and urged other nuclear powers to follow suit.
41 In furtherance of this objective we ask you to announce immediately Britain's own temporary moratorium on all nuclear testing.
42 Many hated the idea, including President Clinton of the United States who called for a worldwide moratorium on all cloning research.
43 The administration has imposed a three-year moratorium on federal minority set-aside programs.
44 There are good reasons for continuing to support the moratorium.
45 One option included enacting a temporary moratorium that would prohibit installing any wireless facility within 250 feet of a residential zone.
46 He suggested a three-month moratorium on politics while the administration and Congress work at reaching agreements on a number of pending issues.
47 The bank call for a moratorium on payment.
48 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gathered leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the West Bank to discuss Israel's decision to end a 10-month moratorium on settlement construction.
49 In 1975, New York state moratorium on debt unless its holders agreed to a restructuring.
50 So, he says, we should put a moratorium on any new coal-fired plants unless they can capture and bury their emissions.
51 I believe it's a Republican governor who's imposed a moratorium on the death penalty in Illinois.
52 The lightening or moratorium of debt is emphasized in the system of bankruptcy conciliation in order to attain the goal avoiding the debtor's bankruptcy by resuming his ability of debt redemption .
53 Interior Secretary Ken Salazar unveiled the new six-month moratorium, worded differently from an earlier drilling ban after a U.S. appeals court struck down the original moratorium last week.
54 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.
55 "We need a moratorium on coal now, " he added, "with phase-out of existing plants over the next two decades."
56 American officials point out that the moratorium as it stands now has no teeth and that moral suasion hasn't stopped whaling nations from hunting in greater and greater numbers.
57 The ensuing financial crisis meant that not only Germany, but many nations, could not keep up with their war debts; as a result, US President Herbert Hoover introduced a one-year moratorium.
58 Citing fears about safety, India's environment minister announced a moratorium on the commercial cultivation of what would have been India's first genetically modified crop Bt Brinjal, or aubergine.
59 Some people are a moratorium on the production of bio-fuels.
60 The first was the government's two-year moratorium on GM brinjal in February (see India says no — for now — to first GM vegetable).
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