quota system
配额制度,配额制,定额制度,定额制
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- : a system, originally determined by legislation in 1921, of limiting by nationality the number of immigrants who may enter the U.S. each year.
- : a policy of limiting the number of minority group members in a business firm, school, etc.
- : any hiring or admissions policy requiring that a specified number or percentage of minority group members be hired or admitted.
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The quota system, perhaps unwittingly, provides judges an incentive to rule in favor of beneficiaries.
The situation, dubbed buttergate by the Canadian media, exposed a complicated quota system in Canada that protects dairy producers from price fluctuations but also incentivized and prioritized the industry’s production over consumer preferences.
There were no deaths on scheduled commercial aviation flights in 2014, in a system that operates 68,000 flights a day.
She fills her characters up—strong women beating back against a sexist system—with so much heart.
A hundred ultra-wealthy liberal and conservative donors have taken over the political system.
“Stay in formation,” a sergeant from the ceremonial unit said over a public address system to the cops along the street.
Both parties are now equal opportunity offenders when it comes to gaming the system.
Sweden excluded British goods, conformably to the continental system established by Bonaparte.
As Spain, however, has fallen from the high place she once held, her colonial system has also gone down.
The reformers of the earlier period were not indifferent to the need for centralized organization in the banking system.
Accordingly, the question "How far does the note issue under the new system seem likely to prove an elastic one?"
Thanks to Berthier's admirable system, Bonaparte was kept in touch with every part of his command.