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  • Abolitionists were becoming hopeful that more profound death penalty reform or possibly a moratorium might be achievable.†  (source)
  • It was more than a year after I came to Canada, when the town churches of Gravesend—and Hurd's Church, upon the urging of Lewis Merrill—organized a so-called Vietnam Moratorium.†  (source)
  • A result and impetus of all this activity became the Chicano Moratorium Against the War.†  (source)
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  • The "Moratorium" argument rests on a fundamental confusion of correlation and causality.†  (source)
  • You deserved every penny of that stock, and in the days of your father I would have refunded every penny of your profit-but under your brother's management, Taggart Transcontinental has taken its share of the looting, it has made profits by force, by means of government favors, subsidies, moratoriums, directives.†  (source)
  • The moratorium on new prisoners seemed real, because the flow of new faces slowed to a feeble trickle.†  (source)
  • "Mrs. Osner has imposed a moratorium on crash talk," Daisy said.†  (source)
  • Charles agreed to a moratorium, but after several months candidly told his father, "Were I to declare that I did not entertain the same opinion of Sally Smith that I ever did, I should declare a falsehood."†  (source)
  • It was October is, Moratorium Day, when the United States reverberated with the chants and pleadings of those discontented with the war.†  (source)
  • On the basis of these promises, the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the leaders of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights agreed to a moratorium on all demonstrations.†  (source)
  • I declare, effective at this moment, a moratorium on the payment of all debts, rents, taxes, interest, mortgages, insurance claims, and premiums, and all and any other financial obligations for the duration of the emergency.†  (source)
  • The ensuing march and demonstration — called the Chicano Moratorium Against The War — became the largest anti-war rally ever held in a minority community.†  (source)
  • He is intrigued by this correlation but, like the "Moratorium" author, fails to see the direction in which the correlation runs.†  (source)
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