QUOTA in a Sentence

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For QUOTA, below is one of 13 sentences:
In return, it wants the US to make similar moves, as to cut tariffs and increase quotas for EU goods.

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 Meanings and Examples of QUOTA
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quota
 n.  limitation on imports; ration; prescribed number
Classic Sentence:
1  To Chichikov's curses at Selifan for not having drawn out of the way with more alacrity a rural constable with moustaches of the length of an arshin added his quota.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
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Example Sentence:
1  They're worried that they won't achieve this year's sales quota.
2  The quota of four tickets per person had been reduced to two.
3  They have to quicken up their rate of work to fulfil the production quota.
4  A restricted import quota was set for meat products.
5  Ideally the campaigners want to push a new bill of introduction of a legal quota for women MPs.
6  Now with the end of the quota restriction just a few weeks away, many smaller developing nations see them in a different light - as a kind of guaranteed share of the very profitable markets of the developed world.
7  It could create a painful dilemma for the group's members: either accept a lower price or give up additional production quotas they have just given themselves.
8  Their remedy is a cut in production to curtail the extent to which the members are exceeding their agreed quotas, something they have been doing in order to prevent shortages arising as a result of the war in Iraq.
9  In return, it wants the US to make similar moves, as to cut tariffs and increase quotas for EU goods.
10  There have been quotas on textile trade for decades.
11  But the complex agreement involves an increase in formal output quotas in an attempt to bring actual production in line with what they have agreed.
12  Thus, for example, customs duties, discriminatory internal taxation and quotas have been abolished.