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1. This was especially curious since there was still a moratorium on space travel
2. When Ike's election opponent, Adlai Stevenson, called for an end to nuclear weapons testing, Ike called that “a moratorium on common sense
3. leases affected by the Department of Interior"s drilling moratorium for an additional twelve months
4. The Department of the Interior has placed a moratorium on drilling in the Gulf
5. To add to the problem the moratorium issued due to the Gulf oil spill has also stopped drilling in Alaska
6. Royal Dutch Shell was awaiting Interior Department approval to start drilling five offshore wells this year but the moratorium will move that into 2011 because of the winter weather
7. The only real decisive measure taken by Obama was to issue a moratorium that stopped all drilling – everywhere - claiming that the action was taken after having reviewed a study from seven experts on oil drilling
8. "The decision to impose a temporary moratorium on deep-water drilling was made by the secretary, following consultation with colleagues including the White House
9. "We believe the report does not justify the moratorium as written, and that the moratorium as changed will not contribute measurably to increased safety and will have immediate and long-term economic effects," the scientists wrote earlier this year to Louisiana Gov
10. Finally, on October 12, the moratorium was lifted by the Interior Department and we will soon be able to assess the damage done by that moratorium
11. Obama reversed or scaled back nearly every major offshore oil opportunity that has come about since the price spike of 2008 – effectively reimposing a moratorium on drilling off the coasts
12. A friend of mine named Michael Toney that is currently residing on Texas Death Row asked me to tell you how I feel about the proposed two-year moratorium of the death penalty in the state of Texas
13. I am strongly in favor of the two-year moratorium of the death penalty
14. I pray that this two-year moratorium is approved so that every inmate on Death Row gets the opportunity to have his or her case reviewed
15. Crist must have struck a chord because she published it verbatim with her article on the proposed two-year moratorium of the death penalty
16. The “missile crisis” protest prompted a full scale investigation of the Swordsmen’ military activities and resulted in a two year moratorium on their purchase of additional military hardware
17. Less than a year after the moratorium ended, they had assembled a force of over a hundred ships and had trained over twenty thousand Marines
18. abiding by the moratorium
19. • As of June of 2007, there had been a 16 month moratorium on
20. He called for a ten-year moratorium on divisive politics and asked for parents to check rising crimes against women by educating their sons
21. If we have one last chance at using the system against itself, so that from its death by paralysis a new cultural attractor can be conceived and deposited, let us try to make this our sole city, state, and national referendum: a moratorium on all new legislation, i
22. How would a moratorium on the Jones Act make a difference in the
23. the current water issues, in addition to placing a moratorium on the Jones Act
24. He admitted that he had been approached by moratorium leaders on the Claremont campus following the publicity given to his letters to government officials
25. Ridenhour advised that he had no interest whatever in such proposals and that he was not in sympathy with moratorium aims
26. But the directors representing the bondholders should have the right to apply for a trusteeship under the Chandler Act, if they feel that comprehensive reorganization is preferable to an indefinite continuance of the moratorium plus control
27. Sinking-fund payments have been suspended without penalty in the case of numerous real estate issues, under the provisions of various state mortgage moratorium laws
28. No sinking-fund payments were made between 1934 and 1939 by virtue of the New York Moratorium Law
29. Greenpeace began in Canada in 1969 with the call to ‘Save the Whale’ from being hunted to extinction and to stop Canada’s annual seal cull; it played a key part in getting an international moratorium on whaling and boosting international sales of whale music
30. In 2007, in response to the alarm over escalating prices, the United Nations’ independent expert on the right to food called for a five-year moratorium on biofuel production from food crops
