Sentence examples for quota request from inspiring English sources

In a tit-for-tat move, Japan and its pro-whaling allies denied the United States quota request at the 2002 I.W.C. conference in Shimonoseki, Japan, prompting a subsequent special meeting to secure the aboriginal quota.

Developers who want to try them during this preview period also need to put in a quota request.

Sample weights were applied to correct for small deviations from the age and gender quota requested and the annual datasets were pooled.

The final sampling quota was requested to be representative of the national census data in terms of age and gender.

An intended EU compromise, asking Canada to publish its export quotas and requesting Cites do an urgent review of polar bears, was opposed by both the US as being toothless and by Canada as casting doubt on its existing rules.

These officials said that employers who faced a labor shortage even after the national guest worker quota was filled could request a "safety valve" exemption to bring in workers, but with additional administrative hurdles and at a higher wage rate than the prevailing wage.

The proposal is to make Iowa what a governor's commission calls an "immigration enterprise zone," and the possible approaches include seeking an exemption from federal immigration quotas -- an unprecedented request that could require Congressional action.

The quota system — which was requested by Italy and has been endorsed by both France and Germany — will take into account a country's GDP, population, unemployment rate, and the number of asylum seekers already being processed.

Bush Rejects Quotas on Steel Pipe From China Despite Recommendation From Trade Panel President Bush rejected a request to place quotas on steel pipe imported from China yesterday, saying the cost to American consumers would outweigh the benefit to domestic producers.

The request to cut the quota had come from Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, a leading cattle state as well as a bastion of the oil business.

And in the Caribbean, the emergence of any especially pro-American government brings a request for a larger quota to ship sugar to the high-priced, highly protected American market.