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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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call
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Many hated the idea, including President Clinton of the United States who called for a worldwide moratorium on all cloning research.
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But he breaks with conservative Republicans who call for a moratorium on legal immigration.
impose
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But then congress intervened by imposing a two year moratorium on all dumping.
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In 1992, Mr Mitterrand imposed a moratorium on the explosions and urged other nuclear powers to follow suit.
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The administration has imposed a three-year moratorium on federal minority set-aside programs.
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In 1972, the Legislature, under pressure from anti-hunting groups and other wildlife associations, imposed a moratorium on hunting lions.
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A second option would impose the moratorium throughout the whole city for the same time period.
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Supervisor Mabel Teng is also readying legislation to impose an 18-month moratorium on owner move-in evictions of elderly tenants.
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George Ryan, a Republican, has imposed a moratorium on executions.
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So state regulators are imposing a moratorium on new sewer hookups.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a one-year moratorium on interest payments
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But his environment colleague, Finnin Aerts, wants a moratorium on further nuclear plants.
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Each side accused the other of renewing the fighting and of breaking the air moratorium .
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He was furious with Khrushchev for breaking the moratorium , but he refused to be stampeded into a new series of tests.
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In 1992, Mr Mitterrand imposed a moratorium on the explosions and urged other nuclear powers to follow suit.
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The moratorium on national curriculum change gives a small opportunity for professional development courses to grow.
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The nations augmented the prohibitions in 1993 with a voluntary moratorium on disposing of low-level radioactive waste.
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The suggestion for a moratorium on nuclear testing, with its overtones of propaganda, was old and unexciting.
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Two years later the moratorium was confirmed, although it has never become a formal agreement.