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- a moratorium on payment of principal of outstanding city notes
- The environmentalists want a moratorium on drilling in the Gulf until further studies are completed.
- 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)
- See also the never-passed "Life Patenting Moratorium Act of 1993," (103rd Congress, S.387) introduced February 18, 1993.† (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)
- ) The "Moratorium" argument rests on a fundamental confusion of correlation and causality.† (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)
- Osner has imposed a moratorium on crash talk," Daisy said.† (source)
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- 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)
- It was October is, Moratorium Day, when the United States reverberated with the chants and pleadings of those discontented with the war.† (source)
- A result and impetus of all this activity became the Chicano Moratorium Against the War.† (source)
- THE MORATORIUM ON BRAINS "Where have you been all this time?"† (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)
- He is intrigued by this correlation but, like the "Moratorium" author, fails to see the direction in which the correlation runs.† (source)
- Well, your friends beat mine on that moratorium business, but mine beat yours on Rearden Metal-and I'm not forgetting it.† (source)
- What was wrong about that moratorium?† (source)
- Because you spent ten thousand dollars pouring liquor into people you hoped would prevent the directive about the bond moratorium!† (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)
- 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 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)
- 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)
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