Example sentences for: quotas

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

  • The Clinton administration clings to the evasion enshrined by Justice Lewis Powell in the Bakke case: "Rigid" numerical quotas are unfair and discriminatory, while "flexible" goals are not.

  • Against Catholics there's less direct evidence of 'informal quotas,' but Oren got some former Yale admissions officers to admit that their colleagues discriminated against Catholics during this period.

  • Inefficient manufacturing sectors served their domestic markets, sheltered behind import quotas, but generated few jobs.

  • "The American experience has shown that voluntary forms of affirmative action can be beneficial, but once quotas are mandated by law, they soon become counter-productive," it said.

  • Stakhanov was a Soviet miner famous for regularly exceeding his quotas.


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