How to Use moratorium in a Sentence

moratorium

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  • The treaty calls for a nuclear testing moratorium.
  • The moratorium runs through the end of this year, when Dunne, Portsmouth’s mayor, hopes to get some guidance from the state.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
  • Naturally, the moratorium is a good thing for the future of the species.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 26 July 2023
  • And then there's a couple that just to have outright moratoriums.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • One of the main reasons for the moratorium was to reduce air pollution from the idling vehicles.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Here’s the most common reason to act now: Since the start of the moratorium, up to 30 million borrowers have gotten a new loan servicer.
    — Janet Novack, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • While the moratorium was never put in place, the letter fueled the debate on whether AI’s progress needs to be slowed and how involved governments need to be.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The moratorium approved Wednesday on new STRs outside the coastal zone will be effective in 30 days.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Teams can now negotiate deals with free agents during the moratorium and agree to deals.
    — Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 1 July 2023
  • Daniel said a moratorium sets off red flags when trying to secure financing for a project.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The moratorium on processing the Employee Retention Credit will last through at least the end of the year and covers all new claims.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The group added that landlords were still reeling from the pandemic-era eviction moratorium and rent freeze.
    — Sandhya Kambhampati, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • That will probably result in longer wait times once the payment moratorium ends.
    — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
  • The state has not executed anyone since 2018, when a de-facto moratorium was put in place.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • When the council here voted for the temporary moratorium on large-scale solar projects, Clyde Cooper was the lone no vote on the seven-member body.
    — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2023
  • Adding to the debt burden, more than half of those student loan borrowers added a new credit card during the moratorium, while 36% took on an auto loan!
    — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2023
  • Yet he’s now joined forces with state Representative Humphrey to campaign for a moratorium on the death penalty.
    — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2024
  • That aspect had a one-year moratorium that expired last summer.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Jan. 2024
  • At the same time, thanks to the moratorium, the delinquency rate has been basically nonexistent for student loan debt.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The Harford County Council passed a bill in April that placed a 90-day moratorium on warehouse development in the county.
    — Jason Fontelieu, Baltimore Sun, 29 Aug. 2023
  • But the recording was posted during a 48-hour moratorium ahead of the polls opening, during which media outlets and politicians are supposed to stay silent.
    — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
  • If Williams, a restricted free agent, does sign an offer sheet with another team after the moratorium ends Thursday, the Celtics would have 24 hours to match it and retain the 6-foot-5-inch forward.
    — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
  • For Ivan Urošević, a gun seller and weapons trainer, the new laws have hit his business hard, particularly the two-year moratorium on gun sales.
    — Richard Engel, NBC News, 19 June 2023
  • The American Kennel Club, which bills itself as the world’s largest not-for-profit all-breed registry, opposes the moratorium.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Those mostly applied to his policies for state prisons, such as a death penalty moratorium.
    — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
  • By the time the moratorium was lifted, in 2022, Mr. Crispo’s health had declined significantly.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The moratorium would not apply to rentals seeking permits that are already scheduled to go before the Board of Zoning Adjustment.
    — The Courier-Journal, 30 May 2023
  • But the moratorium being called for is to stop development of any new models more powerful than 4.0—and this can be enforced, with force if required.
    — Tamlyn Hunt, Scientific American, 25 May 2023
  • Global companies like Google and Patagonia are also some of the first to support a deep-sea mining moratorium.
    — Time, 10 July 2023
  • Here, Sullivan discusses the issues surrounding the growth in Fairhope and reflects on the moratorium.
    — Margaret Kates | Mkates@al.com, al, 5 June 2023

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