moratorium
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He was a co-organizer of the 1970 Chicano Moratorium march in East L.A., one of the largest Mexican American anti-war demonstrations in U.S. history with an estimated 30,000 participants.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
In Scotland, an alternative short-term debt relief system is known as a Statutory Moratorium and lasts for six months.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2024
He was one of four national co-chairs of the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, a series of major protests in the fall of 1969.
From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2024
Still more approaches exist, including "nonstate agreements," such as the Amazon Soy Moratorium in Brazil, in which grain traders pledged not to buy soy from deforested lands, and reduced deforestation without "leakage."
From Science Daily • Sep. 20, 2023
The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam had been planned for months.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
Vocabulary lists containing moratorium
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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