Sentence examples for quotas were designed from inspiring English sources

Until recent weeks, Chinese officials said that the export quotas were designed to foster the development of value-added industries.

The quotas were designed to make the controls similar to all the cases of all types of cancer in terms of age and sex, using the French National Registry of Childhood Blood Malignancies (Clavel et al. 2004) and the Regional Childhood Cancer Registries (Desandes et al. 2004) as references.

This suggests the 'tokenism' narrative around quotas is hard to shake, and might even be creating negative self-appraisals in the very people quotas are designed to help.

While the Food and Drug Administration monitors the safety and supply of the drugs, which are sold both as generics and under brand names like Ritalin and Adderall, the Drug Enforcement Administration sets manufacturing quotas that are designed to control supplies and thwart abuse.

India has a large and contentious system of quotas, which are designed to create a level playing field for disadvantaged groups by guaranteeing them spots in state universities and government jobs.

Chavez had acted to take firmer control of the company to better enforce his policy of strict adherence to OPEC quotas, which are designed to maintain higher world oil prices.

The prime minister's trip, which coincided with a strong intervention by the home secretary in Brussels against an EU refugee quota proposal, was designed to highlight Britain's strategy of directing resources at the camps.

In the US halibut fishery a quota program was designed specifically to maintain the small-scale vessel nature of the fishery.

The year after signing the Civil Rights Act, Johnson signed the Hart-Celler Act, which eliminated the immigrant quota system that was designed in the xenophobic early twentieth century.

Individual transferable quota (ITQ) institutions should be designed to minimize two types of transaction costs.

Independent observers are deployed on board every fishing vessel operating in the Northwest Atlantic Fishery Organisation (NAFO), working on boats for five months at a time to monitor compliance with quotas shared between countries, which are designed to protect certain overfished species.