Example sentences for: quid

How can you use “quid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Even if there is no actual evidence of a quid (donations) pro quo (permission to export), these allegations raise questions.

  • And among them isn't the fact, repeated (again) in the fourth paragraph, that "the quid pro quo promised" to Asian-American donors was "in many cases a face-to-face meeting with the President."

  • The NYT and LAT do a good job of laying out the legal complications: both explain that the usual rules don't apply if the gift giver has a prior personal relationship with the giftee, and the NYT also notes that the courts are still struggling with whether or not the illegal gratuity statute requires a concrete quid pro quo (either past or promised).

  • Yet criminal investigations or prosecutions are rare (and usually involve violations of the fund-raising limits rather than any quid pro quo).

  • Among them: Clinton's 1992 promise to ban soft money; his claim that other presidents have used the same fund-raising tactics; and his assertion that there was no quid pro quo for donors.


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