quota
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Indonesia is also buying more panels, though generous energy subsidies and a strict quota system give consumers little incentive to switch.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
A candidate could win comfortably in a local constituency and still fail to enter parliament if their party had already filled its quota with stronger performances elsewhere.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
“In those circumstances, another quota increase doesn’t necessarily add physical supply.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
At independence, India adopted a modest 12.5% quota for the “scheduled castes,” or Dalits, widely acknowledged as the most-disadvantaged victims of caste discrimination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
That meant they could glean about two hundred fifty today and still be within their quota.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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The ability for Persian Gulf producers to “translate higher quotas into actual exports still depends on shipping conditions through the Strait of Hormuz,” said Salih Yilmaz, a senior industry analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Farmers hold production quotas that limit how much dairy they can produce.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
India’s slower trajectory owes at least as much to bureaucratic drag, corruption and the absence of sustained central planning around core technologies as to reservations, as India’s quotas are called.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
But it sets no quotas and doesn’t forbid the recruitment of “white and Asian men already trained in the field.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Well, there are quotas, which means only a certain number of applications are approved each year in each category.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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