quota
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The shift in tactics comes as ICE leaders face growing pressure from the White House to increase the number of daily arrests they perform, to meet a quota of about 2,000 a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
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
At the last meeting held in early July, seven OPEC+ members raised their output quota for a fifth month in a row, by 188,000 barrels per day for the month of August.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
“Those are the only ones who either made the quota or topped it, Brother Leon.”
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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The US has been asking for a number of concessions from Canada, including removing its remaining retaliatory tariffs on American autos and adjusting its dairy quotas.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
OPEC+ "faces potentially difficult talks over new production quotas" starting next year following the September increase, according to analysts at DNB Carnegie.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
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
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
The sibling category has one of the smaller quotas, which leads to the long wait times.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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