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    quota


    1. But if this was the simpler sensory/motor horizon encapsulation, he would continue to receive his quota of slices no matter what the apparent universe was like to his mind


    2. To dream about meeting a quota suggests that you are feeling overwhelmed by the demands that others are putting on you


    3. Golden Arrows have always wondered why you use some of the methods you do to meet quota


    4. Amaranthe hurried down the road, certain she had surpassed her luck quota for the week


    5. It is not their fault that they were forced to use many years’ worth of quota of new recruits for the 2010 Soccer World Cup and thus they cannot recruit anyone for the next couple years


    6. They obtain their funds from some 38 countries who contribute to them on a quota basis established by


    7. Our quota is 17


    8. It avoids economic retaliations or conflicts of interests among the country-members, as well as it puts an end to contraband, robbery, tax, import quota and wash of the money


    9. 11 for exceeding the marketing quota established


    10. The Court’s rationale was that: (1) Filburn grew excess wheat on his farm, as determined -by a marketing quota established by the federal Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938; (2) Filburn used that excess wheat to feed his livestock; (3) because of the excess wheat, Filburn would not have to purchase wheat on the

    11. the allegations of some opponents of this title, there is nothing in it that will give any power to the Civil Rights commission or to the court to require hiring, firing or promotion of employees, in order to meet a racial quota or to achieve a certain racial balance,” adding later, “in fact, the title would prohibit preferential treatment for any particular group


    12. Is the sales staff meeting quota?


    13. Every year, when the quota numbers were getting set, they would struggle with how high or low to set the number


    14. sales staff to achieve their quota


    15. During this time the skiff of the Fish and Game Department goes around trying to estimate the size of the catch in tons and when they think that the day’s quota will be met, they call for a closure of that day’s opening and another countdown starts to get the nets out of the water at the determined time or risk a fine


    16. There may however be a second and third chance as the herring is weighed at the end of that day’s opening and if that year’s quota is not met there may be a second and even a third opening a few days later


    17. Dalits (untouchables) did not like him because he was against giving them more privileges than everyone else in India - a quota system for jobs and admission to higher education, even when there were more qualified people


    18. His mind would not let go of his torment and he stopped short of his usual quota of exercise and showered


    19. Sheila was closing in on her quota of five hundred test subjects and was looking over the list of volunteers when her secretary buzzed in


    20. But even those wild memories of his mad youth left him unmoved, just as during his last debauch he had exhausted his quota of salaciousness and all he had left was the marvelous gift of being able to remem-ber it without bitterness or repentance

    21. stop caring, you know? Had your damn quota of caring for the day


    22. “Long before the rebellion, one of my friends was to be punished for missing his quota for a full dawn cycle


    23. He lowers the gold quota


    24. The Israelis occupy land taken by force of arms in the face of UN resolutions; North Korea sells nuclear weapons to rogue states; Iran and Syria arm the Hezbollah in defiance of world opinion; the Russians are planting flags at the North Pole contrary to international treaties; the Faroese are catching 10 times the agreed sustainable fishing quota; the Pakistanis are cheating at cricket to allow betting fraud; the Zimbabweans are seizing farms and giving them to government cronies; the US imprisons “foreign combatants” in Guantanamo Bay without any rights under US law or the Geneva convention; Greek workers riot on the streets until they get what they want; the French Government refuses to pay EU fines for breaking the rules they themselves set; terrorists blow up innocent civilians and end up in the government of Northern Ireland; the Australians criticise the Japanese for killing whales “for scientific research”, because they are “sentient beings”, but shoot kangaroos as pests


    25. It should be realized that those mandatory ministerial berths and the quota of secretaries would only help buttress their communal self-worth


    26. I easily filled my quota of guests by including


    27. This organisation has through its own fishing quota, created a number of fish shops, as well as restaurants and take-aways providing various fish dishes


    28. ‘I also told Tadeo that I am convinced that my quota for unconditional love is empty so far, and that I will find my twin soul so that I can give him all the love I have in store


    29. Mohammed’s instructions had been very specific on the amount of material he would allow to be removed and that small quota had already been used


    30. We have to send the annual quota to the Brangas

    31. ‘The quota of the Brangas will not be affected, Your Highness


    32. Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron outraged the Greek government, when he announced publicly that he wanted his parliament to vote in a new policy that would put a quota on how many Greeks would be allowed into Britain


    33. Then, there is quota for subsidized liquor


    34. I was done with my quota of patence


    35. I was roughly through with the prior quota of oxygen; and thus found myself cutting through the water hurriedly


    36. because this one already had its quota of clowns


    37. and for those who chose to earn and have more, a quota system of tithing would apply in


    38. the 50 patients who ate their regular dietary fat quota, 38 (or 76 per cent) had died of arterial


    39. The horse having reached the end of his tether, so to speak, halted and, rearing high a proud feathering tail, added his quota by letting fall on the floor which the brush would soon brush up and polish, three smoking globes of turds


    40. Ironically, the production quota is partly responsible for the increased prices, meaning that prices decrease as production increases

    41. The star Soviet worker was a miner called Alexei Stakhanov, who took the country by storm in 1935 by cutting 14 times his quota of coal


    42. When all the losses were tallied, in April 2000, the Quantum Fund was down 22% and the Quota Fund was down 32%


    43. Delegation and quota: SCVMM allows the administrator to define scopes


    44. He's on reserves and they say that we already have more than our quota per


    45. As it was about to be lowered away it was found that the craft contained one more than its full quota of passengers


    46. Why do they not dissolve it themselves—the union between themselves and the State—and refuse to pay their quota into its treasury? Do not they stand in the same relation to the State, that the State does to the Union? And have not the same reasons prevented the State from resisting the Union, which have prevented them from resisting the State?


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    Synonyms for "quota"

    quota allowance ration allotment share bounty annuity dole

    "quota" definitions

    a prescribed number


    a proportional share assigned to each participant


    a limitation on imports