Jeffrey Kluger

There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family.

American Writer

Laura van den Berg

In the world of the American creative writing workshop, I've encountered teachers who are tempted to place, or have actually placed, a moratorium on child narrators. Students love to write them, but children come laden with complications.

Woody Harrelson

Right now there should be a moratorium on the cutting down of old growth in this country. That is a small thing to ask at this point. There is only four percent of old growth left. Ninety-six percent of it has been cut down.

American Actor

Ed Rendell

I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.

American Politician

Antony Blinken

During the Clinton administration, engagement, backed by the threat of force, convinced Pyongyang to freeze its dangerous nuclear program and put a moratorium on the production of long-range missiles.

American Statesman

Caryl Chessman

If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.

American Celebrity

Lawrence Kudlow

I argued for a wartime moratorium on new visas and new immigrants because of the substantial danger of ISIS terrorists infiltrating our system.

American Journalist

Paul Watson

To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme.

Canadian Environmentalist

Elaine Chao

There should be an immediate moratorium on federal regulations that endanger jobs.

Jessica Savitch

My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.

Often used in legal or governmental situations to describe temporary stops of activities.

Legal Context

Can signal a change in policy while assessing a situation or creating new regulations.

Policy Change

Sometimes used as a strategic pause during negotiations or disputes.

Negotiation Tool

Used in finance to give temporary relief from debt or loan payments.

Financial Relief

Often applied during economic crises to prevent further financial strain.

Economic Crisis

Usually granted or enforced by government bodies to aid citizens or sectors.

Government Intervention

 for this particular product that is not even really needed in any capacity by human beings. It doesn't-- It's not integral to our survival. And the other thing with that is the ban and the moratorium. When you have a moratorium in place, all it says is the market is closed for now and the doors will open eventually. So, the prices will build in the meanwhile.

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 story in fishery management in the world why is that in the early 80s striped bass where it's such a low level that people were talking about putting them on the endangered species list and eventually after a lot of arguing they put a five year moratorium to let those young fish grow to breeding size so we

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 computers to be these accurate fair and flawless machines but without trying human biases have turned up in the software civil liberties activists say it might be time to rethink those applications at a minimum congress should pass a moratorium on the police use of facial

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 putting a moratorium on genetic research. Now despite this history of distrust, I still believe that indigenous people can benefit from genetic research. And if we don't do something soon, the gap in health disparities is going to continue to widen. Hawaii, for example,

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 A little different with South Africa. South Africa has put a moratorium on leopards, for a year. But that shows that we can't be complacent we need to drive forward. The fourth big pillar, of course, is communities that live next to these big wildlife populations

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 to give us time to really consider all of the various implications of doing so. And actually, there is an important precedent for such a pause from the 1970s, when scientists got together to call for a moratorium on the use of molecular cloning,

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 Have a moratorium -- we shouldn't have any new coal-fired generating plants that aren't able to capture and store CO2, which means we have to quickly build these renewable sources. Now, nobody is talking on that scale. But I do believe

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 And of course, we are deploying these funds exactly for the countries that need us the most. And we did one more thing. With David Malpass, the president of the World Bank, we called for a debt moratorium for the poorest countries

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 to tackle that exact question. What is the right path forward with human genetic modification? I believe at this time we need a moratorium. We have to ban this. We should not allow creating genetically modified people,

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 for the same cause. And by the way, within three months, a moratorium on these clear-cutting practices was announced by the industry. And Greenpeace themselves declared it as a spectacular drop in deforestation

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