Sentence examples for rigid quota from inspiring English sources

"There's not a rigid quota.

"[S]ome attention to numbers," without more, does not transform a flexible admissions system into a rigid quota.

I try not to think in terms of gender or ethnic mix, those rigid quota ways of thinking.

Its predominant emphasis on race renders it functionally indistinguishable from the rigid quota system it employed between 1995-1998.

The fact that there is a rigid quota on the court, permitting one black and one black only to serve at a time, is itself racist.

Praising this approach, Judge Duggan said "a university must carefully design its system to fall between" one "that completely fails to achieve a meaningful degree of diversity" and "a rigid quota".

In practice, respondents' pursuit of a "critical mass" operates no differently than more rigid quotas.

Instead, rigid quotas, harsh immigration laws and heavy-handed enforcement lock people in.

Imposing on a multi-hued society rigid quotas of white and non-white, they say, is not only artificial but risky.

The ministry calls for rigid quotas so that any institute can at most have one-sixth of its staff members as senior scientists, and at most two-sixth of its staff members as the next rank down.

Powell offered the example (set out in an appendix) of the admissions program at Harvard University as one he believed would pass constitutional muster that institution did not set rigid quotas for minorities, but actively recruited them and sought to include them as more than a token part of a racially and culturally diverse student body.