Sentences with phrase «immediate moratorium»

State regulators issued an immediate moratorium on admissions Friday for Floridian Gardens Assisted Living Facility in Miami, a 180 - bed elder care center operated by the owner of the Hollywood nursing home where a dozen residents died after Hurricane Irma.

First, even if we were to impose an immediate moratorium on all nuclear reactor construction and cease operating all existing reactors, the problem of radwaste disposal would still be before us.

Tasmanian senator Peter Whish - Wilson announced that the Greens want to extend divestiture powers to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and to impose an immediate moratorium on the opening of any new stores by the duopoly.

Dozens of environmental health organizations in the United States and Canada are calling for an immediate moratorium on the use of a chemical, bisphenol A — or BPA — in food and beverage containers, including baby bottles.

Today I introduced a bill that calls for an immediate moratorium on visas for refugees.

But then I realized that it came on the back of an incendiary Daily Express front page citing an apparent report produced by Maurice Glasman for Ed Miliband calling for an immediate moratorium on the vast majority of immigration to Britain.

The UFT has also called for an immediate moratorium on school closures until the end of Mayor Bloomberg's term in office.

In a letter yesterday, the representatives called on NYCHA Chairman John Rhea to place an immediate moratorium on terminations for the city's 99,000 Section 8 recipients while reviewing how it administers the program, as well as restore subsidies to participants who may have been dropped in error.

When I recently reorganized my closet, I realized I needed to put an immediate moratorium on purchasing sweatshirts, but desperately need casual dresses so I have something to wear on weekends that's not denim or athleisure.

Bending to pressure from several parents» and educators» groups, Mayor Kevin H. White instructed his commissioner of consumer affairs and licensing, Joanne Prevost, to place an immediate moratorium on the licensing of such games while the city ponders a «comprehensive plan» to address the «unregulated proliferation of video games and pinball machines» in Boston.

May 25, 2016, LOS ANGELES — Today, an unusually diverse coalition sent a letter to LAUSD calling for an immediate moratorium on, and revision of, their random metal detection / search (wanding) policy that unfairly targets and criminalizes students.

In addition, the spoof release called for an immediate moratorium on the construction of all new coal - fired power plants.

David White, energy consultant to governments in Europe and in the U.S.A., states that «it is imperative that the Auditor General's Office investigate this wasteful investment of public funds (wind - farms) and that Ontario's Legislature place an immediate moratorium on the building of new wind turbine facilities in the province as well as end subsidies and tax incentives paid to the wind industry.»

Last week, in an open letter to Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli, Hudak requested the Liberals implement an immediate moratorium on future projects in light of «the -LSB-...]

Rather than forging ahead with installing these ever - increasing monstrosities (some are now 1000 feet tall), and completely ignoring the cries from around the world of health effects, we should have an immediate moratorium placed on any further installations and put the money towards finding something that is truly green.

Activists are demanding an immediate moratorium on all new fossil fuel terminals.

While the study is being conducted, they demand an immediate moratorium on all pending and proposed IWT projects.

«We are asking for an immediate moratorium on new cars,» Biju Matthews explained.

Amanda Street — Niagara this Week — July 30, 2012 Local politicians and residents are urging Ontario's premier to put an immediate moratorium on industrial wind turbine development until a federal health study is complete.

Slaughtering the Amazon urges international companies to suspend buying from tainted cattle suppliers and calls for an immediate moratorium on further Amazon deforestation.

In last night's post, we covered the call by a growing band of Australian Senators for an immediate moratorium on the construction of any more of these things — unless and until they've been exonerated, beyond all reasonable doubt, as the cause of a raft of noise related health effects suffered by wind farm neighbours; -LSB-...]

In those parts of the continent where the development industry is still paving over farmland, let's have an immediate moratorium on any construction on farmland: We are talking survival, not subdivisions.

Pakistan shares the widely held view that further development and use of these weapon systems must be pre-emptively banned, and the states currently developing such weapons should place an immediate moratorium on their production and use.

Therefore, their further development and use must be pre-emptively banned, and the states currently developing such weapons should place an immediate moratorium on their production and use.

It urges an immediate moratorium on lethal autonomous robots until an international agreement is reached.

In his capacity as UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Heyns authored the 2013 report for the Human Rights Council that called on all nations enact an immediate moratorium on «lethal autonomous robots» until the international framework can be resolved.

In its statement during the NGO session — its first ever statement in a multilateral fora — the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots welcomed the UN Special Rapporteur and urged all to states endorse and implement its recommendations, including the call for an immediate moratorium on robotics weapons systems that, once activated, can select and engage targets without further intervention by a human.

This year, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Professor Christof Heyns, issued a report calling on nations to institute an immediate moratorium on fully autonomous weapons.

Concerns over killer robots were first debated in a multilateral forum in May 2013 when the Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions Professor Christof Heyns of South Africa presented the Human Rights Council with his first report on the matter, which recommended an immediate moratorium on development.