Sentence examples for first quota from inspiring English sources

At about the same time it worked with China to design a quota system allowing foreign banks limited rights to trade Chinese shares (and won the first quota).

At the auction in 2008, the state-owned enterprises paid $71 a pound, then immediately flipped their first quota from their ivory purchases to factories for up to $530 a pound.

Beijing 2008 0 gold 1 silver 0 bronze Euro Ch'ships 2011 target 3 medals London 2012 Investment £6.3m Development/podium athletes 17/10 Jan Bartu, performance director: "2011 is a big year for modern pentathlon, with the first quota places for London 2012 available, including two places at the World Cup Final in London and 16 at the European Championships at Medway in Kent, both in July.

Ling's result also secured one of Team GB's first quota places for the 2016 Olympics in Rio.

Earlier at the event in southern Spain, Ed Ling won a sliver medal in the trap event, securing GB's first quota place for the Rio Games.

(DKI 3) Sometimes we receive the first quota of the funds during the time when we were supposed to get the third quota.

"I'm highly delighted to win one of the first quotas for GB," he said.

By the end of World War II, populations had been significantly depleted, and, in 1946, the first quotas restricting international trade in whales were introduced, but they were ineffective because of the lack of differentiation between species.

The first quotas are slightly lower than baseline level, to ensure the experience of success ("sure to win").

Instead, there would be periodic votes to see if the three-fifths quota could be reached.

Pauline Hanson easily secured enough votes to join the senate and it's possible she could have enough support to fill a second or third quota.