system of quotas

Austria has a system of quotas that limits trucks from other countries.

Couldn't a filmmaker's fear that a system of quotas will make us more of a race-preoccupied society than we are already also be at work?

The government of the day proposed to require Universities to implement a system of quotas for admission to research degrees.

The European Community is already managing a system of quotas and licences for the import of these substances.

The complex global system of quotas that has governed international trade in textiles and apparel for more than three decades expired on Dec. 31.

It is clear, however, that the current system of quotas is not having the desired result, which is achieving a balance between production and consumption.

A system of quotas restricts the amount of sugar imported into the United States, inflating domestic prices.

Lobstering turned out to be an excellent job thanks to a system of quotas that was pioneered in Australia and New Zealand.

The former system of quotas for ivory exports from specified countries did not work, as demand is so great that enormous quantities are smuggled out illegally.

Its system of quotas enables Switzerland to counteract any eventual adverse consequences arising from increased free movement of persons.

The brief argued that the Federal regulation forced the state to be "color conscious rather than colorblind," and that it created an unconstitutional system of quotas.

To sum up, we have moved from a system of quotas in the positions offered to a system of positions reserved by the famous positive discriminations.

Diplomats said the ministers had made a legal commitment that they would drop the existing system of quotas that protect national road-transport industries from free cross-border competition.

I am talking, for example, about yet another attempt to introduce a system of quotas for the recruitment and participation of women in all economic and political sectors.

A system of quotas is supposed to allocate 15 percent of the jobs to the Tutsi, a reflection of the Tutsi percentage of the population.

In an embarrassing reversal, Mr. Mandelson acknowledged Wednesday that the system of quotas imposed on Chinese textiles had a "serious glitch."

But where you have a system of quotas and where you have a system of subsidies, you need to be able to put a brake on production.

OPEC came close to dismantling its system of quotas before ending a meeting without agreement on how much oil each member will produce in the final quarter of the year.

The community and Japan have long had a country-by-country system of quotas to protect the domestic car industries in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Britain.

A real problem of choice would also be raised with regard to the nature of such diversification, given the system of quotas and the surpluses that already exist for many products.

While a system of quotas has been frowned upon in other parts of the world, one way to create equality is simply by demonstrating that a woman can do a given job competently.

Willetts said he wanted to see education institutions compete both on fees and the "quality of the experience" for students as the government dismantles the system of quotas on student places.

I am not one of those people who think that a system of quotas and productions, replacing some American productions with European productions, is the be-all and end-all.

The Coal Mines Act 1930 was an Act of Parliament which introduced a system of quotas in the coal industry of the United Kingdom.