Example sentences for: quotas

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

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

  • Unlike affirmative action, high school quotas avoid giving an advantage based on something other than merit in those situations where student "X" is white and student "Y" is a minority.

  • But there were quotas.

  • Along came high-school quotas and minority admissions returned to pre-1996 levels.

  • Even granting that Buckley's libertarian opposition to Connecticut's Fair Education Practices bill, which never did pass, would not likely have been altered by the discovery that Yale did indeed have quotas, it appears that Buckley was duped--either by Wiggin or by Seymour or by both men--into repeating a lie that helped Yale restrict the number of Catholics (of whom he was one) and Jews who got in.


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