MORATORIUM


Meaning of MORATORIUM in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

call

Many hated the idea, including President Clinton of the United States who called for a worldwide moratorium on all cloning research.

But he breaks with conservative Republicans who call for a moratorium on legal immigration.

impose

But then congress intervened by imposing a two year moratorium on all dumping.

In 1992, Mr Mitterrand imposed a moratorium on the explosions and urged other nuclear powers to follow suit.

The administration has imposed a three-year moratorium on federal minority set-aside programs.

In 1972, the Legislature, under pressure from anti-hunting groups and other wildlife associations, imposed a moratorium on hunting lions.

A second option would impose the moratorium throughout the whole city for the same time period.

Supervisor Mabel Teng is also readying legislation to impose an 18-month moratorium on owner move-in evictions of elderly tenants.

George Ryan, a Republican, has imposed a moratorium on executions.

So state regulators are imposing a moratorium on new sewer hookups.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a one-year moratorium on interest payments

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But his environment colleague, Finnin Aerts, wants a moratorium on further nuclear plants.

Each side accused the other of renewing the fighting and of breaking the air moratorium .

He was furious with Khrushchev for breaking the moratorium , but he refused to be stampeded into a new series of tests.

In 1992, Mr Mitterrand imposed a moratorium on the explosions and urged other nuclear powers to follow suit.

The moratorium on national curriculum change gives a small opportunity for professional development courses to grow.

The nations augmented the prohibitions in 1993 with a voluntary moratorium on disposing of low-level radioactive waste.

The suggestion for a moratorium on nuclear testing, with its overtones of propaganda, was old and unexciting.

Two years later the moratorium was confirmed, although it has never become a formal agreement.

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