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- The environmentalists want a moratorium on drilling in the Gulf until further studies are completed.
- a moratorium on payment of principal of outstanding city notes
- 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)
- 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)
- The moratorium on new prisoners seemed real, because the flow of new faces slowed to a feeble trickle.† (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)
- Well, let's agree on a moratorium.† (source)
- "Mrs. Osner has imposed a moratorium on crash talk," Daisy said.† (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)
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- 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)
- It was October is, Moratorium Day, when the United States reverberated with the chants and pleadings of those discontented with the war.† (source)
- CHAPTER VII — THE MORATORIUM ON BRAINS† (source)
- The "Moratorium" argument rests on a fundamental confusion of correlation and causality.† (source)
- A 1977 academic study called "On Behalf of a Moratorium on Prison Construction" noted that crime rates tend to be high when imprisonment rates are high, and concluded that crime would fall if imprisonment rates could only be lowered.† (source)
- A result and impetus of all this activity became the Chicano Moratorium Against the War.† (source)
- ....What was wrong about that moratorium?† (source)
- It was understood that the moratorium was for five years!† (source)
- How many loans have you got from us and how many extensions, suspensions and moratoriums?† (source)
- But, right now you can't make up for the Chicano Moratorium, for Miguel Robles and all the others who've suffered because of this society.† (source)
- At age 16, I participated in the Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam War — the so-called East L.A. riot.† (source)
- It has derailed and, whenever possible, destroyed the unity which emerged out of the Watts Rebellion, out of the Chicano Moratorium, out of the Wounded Knee protests.† (source)
- From the age of 13 on, I ended up in cells like those of the San Gabriel jail house — places like Pomona, Temple City, East L.A., Monterey Park, East Lake's juvenile detention hall and the L.A. county jail system following the Moratorium.† (source)
- As soon as the "Martha moratorium" was lifted, the Camp would get dozens of freaks rushed in, ruining our temporarily placid prison lives.† (source)
- Well, your friends beat mine on that moratorium business, but mine beat yours on Rearden Metal-and I'm not forgetting it.† (source)
- Don't you know what they can do to us through this Railroad Pool, or through the Unification Board, or through the moratorium on our bonds?† (source)
- Because you spent ten thousand dollars pouring liquor into people you hoped would prevent the directive about the bond moratorium!† (source)
- I had to grant the unions' demands to cut down the trains-and the moratorium on bonds was the only way I could do it, so that's why Wesley gave it to me, for the workers, not for myself.† (source)
- To compensate the railroads of the country for the extra costs involved and "to cushion the process of readjustment," a moratorium on payments of interest and principal on all railroad bonds-secured and unsecured, convertible and non-convertible-was declared for a period of five years.† (source)
- The moratorium on brains.† (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)
- I wanted desperately to watch the news that night, to see how the Washington march went, and to see the reaction of people around the country to the moratorium itself.† (source)
- I had a pretty good idea about what Ted thought about the moratorium, but I did not realize that I would be watching the greatest show on earth in Ted's living room.† (source)
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