According to a quota system, 15 seats were reserved for women, but five other women won competitive races outside the quota system, according to the official results.
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Many member states reject a quota system for distributing refugees.
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Indonesia scrapped a quota system for beef imports in 2016.
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The Patels were agitating for the removal of the quota system.
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Mr Abadi's promise to end the quota system had powerful support.
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Then, in 1965, Johnson pushed through legislation that ended the quota system.
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The city also continues to deny the allegations about a quota system.
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But then Ramadan began, and workers say the quota system didn't change.
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They say that Harvard's admission process amounts to an illegal quota system.
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Parties could voluntarily implement a version of the quota system as well.
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This racial quota system, arising from the 1996 desegregation case Sheff v.
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The head of corruption must be cut off by abolishing the quota system.
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But that was a difficult fiction to maintain while the quota system existed.
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The analyst said China will start an electric vehicle quota system in 2019.
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The 28500 Johnson-Reed Act established a quota system based on national origins.
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The quota system persists today, part of an attempt to diversify the sport.
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Like in the United States, India's quota system has faced considerable political pushback.
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Resentment rose in parts of the country badly served by the quota system.
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Desel said Monday that the evidence-planting investigation is unrelated to the quota system.
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They held a banner calling for a quota system that featured the hashtag #Baftablackout.
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Up to 1,200 Qataris are eligible for the haj under an annual quota system.
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The new quota system will set minimum renewable power consumption targets for each region.
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For one, the quota system, proposed by the European Commission, could be made flexible.
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A key instrument in the federation's unique pricing scheme is a mandatory quota system.
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All these issues are expected to worsen with the rollout of the quota system.
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Zamaninia said OPEC countries need to find a way to revive the quota system.
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The Trump administration has tried to expedite the process by creating a quota system.
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On Wednesday, it again rejected any quota system for distributing migrants among the EU countries.
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A quota system adopted in 2015 is aimed at easing pressure on Italy and Greece.
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Eastern European states refused to sign up to the quota system — another hugely contentious issue.
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BS: True to Canada's cultural quota system, you've included a section devoted to Canadian artists.
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A quota system will earn them truckloads of credits without any tweaks to their business model.
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With that, the bare bones of affirmative action — the "reservations," or quota, system — were in place.
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Sobotka reiterated it was important that a permanent quota system is not included in the reform.
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Under a quota system, the Czech Republic was required to allow 2,691 migrants into the country.
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EU efforts to establish a quota system have been unsuccessful, meeting stiff resistance from eastern states.
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Supplies to bonded tanks are considered as exports and will be managed by a quota system.
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To avoid adopting a blatant quota system, Harvard introduced subjective criteria like character, personality and promise.
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The pact sets minimum prices and a quota system for raw and refined sugar imported from Mexico.
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It also notes that applicants are considered on an individual basis, rather than under a quota system.
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It's not the first time that anger over the caste quota system has boiled over in India.
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But after villages experienced two election cycles under the quota system, that expectations gap began to shrink.
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She looked at how crime statistics changed as more women came into government under India's quota system.
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"A minimum price only works if there is a quota system in place," said one U.S. trader.
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Poland is refusing to take in some of the mainly Muslim asylum seekers under the quota system.
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But a handful of countries — notably Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic — rejected the quota system.
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The strict quota system was abandoned under a new treaty in 1992 after the Soviet Union collapsed.
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A quota system would keep U.S. metal prices high by limiting supply and lead to potential shortages.
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It concluded that the country's new quota system led to changes in the way the boards made decisions.
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The 'untouchable' who cycled from India to Sweden for love And then there was the national quota system.
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And are these European countries going to sign up to a quota system with which they fundamentally disagree?
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This came after the European Union in September ended a production quota system that had guaranteed minimum prices.
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This new law replaced the old, discriminatory quota system with a process that favored skilled workers and family reunification.
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The quota system has been praised for being clear, open, well-policed and based on scientists' assessments of stocks.
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Automakers Ford Motor and General Motors must operate through joint ventures, while Hollywood movies face a strict quota system.
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For example, the union in 85033 condemned an administration quota system that required judges to complete 700 cases annually.
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They introduced a quota system for Chinese workers and channeled much of the transborder business through state-controlled entities.
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When asked if the Academy should implement a quota system to ensure diversity, the British actress said it wasn't necessary.
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The email said the new policy was effective March 10, 2018, but prison officials abandoned the quota system weeks later.
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Refugees will be allocated to EU countries based on a quota system decided by the individual country's wealth and size.
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Ideologies changed over the 40 years of the quota system and ideas about who should be allowed to migrate shifted.
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However, countries in the region have protested against an EU quota system intended to redistribute asylum seekers among member states.
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Some countries, including Hungary and Slovakia, have objected to a proposed EU quota system for resettling migrants across the bloc.
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The price crash last year was a result of unbridled production by OPEC members, when the quota system was scrapped.
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Many of the Iraqis we spoke to on that day were upset with institutionalization of an ethno-sectarian quota system.
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Automakers Ford Motor Co and General Motors must operate through joint ventures, while Hollywood movies face a strict quota system.
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In 6900, President Nixon suspended tariffs on oil imports and moved to a quota system of variable import-licensing fees.
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Next year, a new Chinese quota system will require that 8 percent of an automaker's sales be plug-in electrics.
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The 1965 immigration reforms that ended the national-origins quota system reserved 74 percent of immigrant visas for family reunification.
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Over the past nine months, however, they have successfully undercut these rules with a new tiered quota system for drivers.
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If this one is published, I may feel that I somehow was a beneficiary of a quota system — or charity.
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Iran had proposed returning to a former country-based quota system for oil output but that failed to find unanimous agreement.
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The new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement protects Canadian and Mexican production in the event of such tariffs through a quota system.
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Colleges can't use a "quota system" — a requirement that, say, the student body reflects the racial makeup of the United States.
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Eastern European countries are opposing a quota system to resettle migrants with Hungary planning a referendum to let the public choose.
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Poland, Hungary and other eastern members have refused to take part and even launched legal cases against the bloc's quota system.
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And he grew embittered after less deserving men were promoted to major general before him, owing to a regional quota system.
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The plan includes a possible quota system which would force growers to favour local mills over a higher-paying export market.
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Coelho Filho said the government is discussing which plants would be allowed to abandon the quota system and under what conditions.
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The IMF last revised its quota system, or voting structure in 2010, but is set to launch another review next year.
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He said a language act could lead to a quota system that favored Irish speakers, mainly Catholics, for public-sector jobs.
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In New York City, Uber abandoned flexibility and imposed a shift-based quota system that restricted drivers' access to the app.
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The parliament to which Agina belongs has the biggest number of elected women in Egypt's legislative history thanks to a quota system.
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The quota system was expected to reduce the cost of doing business because railway transport was cheaper than road haulage, he said.
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Still, Brazil and Mexico started to boost their chicken trade after a 300,000-tonne annual import quota system was introduced in 2013.
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Those reactions were largely results of the quota system being perceived as an inflexible, top-down imposition of an unaccountable European elite.
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A quota system would prevent some people — there's no way in advance to tell how many — from sliding down that slippery slope.
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The end of the quota system could bring more youth into the public sector and curb the culture of patronage in ministries.
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By setting such targets, the company is creating a quota system instead of one that will build diversity in the long term.
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Hungary responded with a border fence and rejection of European Union proposals to settle migrants in member states under a quota system.
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Every able-bodied Muslim who has the means should perform the haj at least once in their lifetime under a quota system.
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In 2014 India's government voted to re-categorize them as a "Backward Caste," meaning they would get access to the quota system.
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Dr. Alan Semo, UK representative of the Democratic Union Party, the main political party in DFNS, described the quota system in operation.
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The suit claims that the university's admissions process uses an illegal racial quota system stacked against Asian Americans, allegations that Harvard denies.
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" Noting how Asian immigration was cut off, Kennedy added, "Furthermore, the national origins quota system has strong overtones of an indefensible racial preference.
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"Oil prices continue to trend up despite our doubts around OPEC's dubious return to the quota system," U.S. bank Jefferies said on Friday.
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Under the old quota system, some black players were assumed to have been picked on the basis of skin colour, not on merit.
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In response, protesters have demanded a new government and the abandonment of the sectarian quota system that has underpinned Iraqi governments since 2003.
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In 1924, the Johnson-Reed Act maintained a quota system based on nationality and barred Arabs and Asians from immigrating to the States.
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The new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement trade deal protects Canadian and Mexican production in the event of such tariffs through a quota system.
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He promoted a caste-based quota system for government jobs and for students in government schools, as well as subsidies for the poor.
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Because that year fell before the largest wave of immigration to the United States, the quota system heavily favored northern and western Europe.
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America did not set permanent numerical limits on immigration until the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924, which used a quota system to govern entry.
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Congress abolished the national-origins quota system in 1965, with legislation that favoured skilled workers and immediate family members of immigrants already in America.
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That&aposs why you can have your four justices, but beyond that you don&apost get any, so you have a quota system constitutionalists.
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So profits are set according to an informal quota system—outside shareholders should get the minimum required to avoid a revolt, but no more.
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Hungary and Slovakia have filed lawsuits to challenge the quota system at the European Court of Justice, the judicial body of the European Union.
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Young Iraqi protesters are also fed up with the informal quota system by which ministries and positions are spread among politicians according to affiliation.
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" Mr. Potter, whose family owns a local printing and packing business, described Mr. d'Humières's matrix as "a function-tracking mechanism, not a quota system.
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Some, like a quota system, would be harder to implement, while others, like a shift to ranked-choice voting, have already picked up momentum.
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While climbers must register for a permit to scale the mountain, there is no quota system in place, so the crowds continue to grow.
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After the EU ended its milk quota system in 2015, production increased sharply, and now the 28 member countries together exceed U.S. dairy production.
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But before that, Hungary will hold a referendum in September or early October on whether to accept an EU quota system for resettling migrants.
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Securing a spot on the national team could be one of those life-altering moments, and the quota system has led to heated debate.
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Prague, along with other central European governments, has rejected a quota system drawn up by the European Commission to redistribute asylum seekers around the bloc.
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A new quota system, slated for 2018, requires car companies to make new energy vehicles account for at least 8 percent of total domestic sales.
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The proposed changes "take away elements of sovereignty", says Zoltan Kovacs, a Hungarian government spokesman; he talks of a "quota system that we flatly reject".
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But a user-set quota system would also do very little harm, since it wouldn't actually limit the freedom of any user more than trivially.
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Now Gigaba wants to change the law to crack down on so-called "economic migrants" by reducing asylum-seekers' rights and introducing a quota system.
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EU officials questioned how the one-for-one scheme would work in practice, with several EU countries objecting to any quota system for resettling refugees.
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"The market situation within the EU has also been characterized by overproduction since the end of the quota system for sugar," Nordzucker said on Tuesday.
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With the current quota system for scrap imports set to continue into next year, two parallel import mechanisms could be in place for a time.
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The Czech Republic and central European countries like Hungary, Poland and Slovakia have long opposed a Brussels-prescribed quota system to re-distribute asylum seekers.
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Even with a quota system, women make up 35 percent of Zimbabwe&aposs parliament, and fewer women will have seats after the election, she said.
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Many presidents—Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson—had warned Congress that the quota system was unfair, inefficient, and harmful to U.S. foreign policy.
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The law placed a preference on people coming from north and western Europe allied countries while reinforcing the quota system from other less desirable countries.
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" He said her goal of closing the discipline gap between black and white students by 2018 was "introducing a racial quota system for school discipline.
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In 1965, at the crest of the black civil rights movement, Lyndon Johnson signed into law a new immigration act that dismantled the quota system.
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In recent research, the New York University economists Petra Moser and Shmuel San examined the economic effects of the national quota system of the 1920s.
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It wasn&apost a quota system, she says, but rather the reverse: ensuring that qualified people were not being passed over because they were women.
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The Prague government opposes an EU quota system to redistribute asylum seekers but has not followed Slovakia and Hungary in challenging it in the courts.
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But the country is gradually phasing out subsidies in favour of a quota system, and specifications to qualify for the scheme are ever-more demanding.
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The logic of eugenics also shaped the immigration quota system put in place in the early 1920s, which restricted immigration almost entirely to white populations.
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Mexico is allowing in duty-free U.S. pork under a quota system despite retaliatory measures taken after Washington imposed tariffs on Mexican steel and aluminum imports.
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Central European states refused to endorse a Brussels-prescribed quota system to share asylum seekers among all EU member states, a plan dropped earlier this year.
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Shortly before I departed, on International Women's Day in March, former Prime Minister Peter O'Neill proposed a women's parliamentary quota system for its 111-seat legislature.
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Update 11/14/16 4:23pm EST: DCPI responded via email to say "The New York City Police Department does not adhere to a quota system."
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The Czech Republic has rejected attempts by fellow EU countries to force member states to accept a quota system for the relocation of migrants and refugees.
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During that period, a Soviet-era quota system for hunting, which had provided a living for people like the Dukha and maintained wildlife numbers, broke down.
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Argentina's Marcri ended export taxes for corn and wheat, while tossing out the quota system that the previous government used to ensure ample domestic food supplies.
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In 2015 at the height of the crisis, the EU instigated a quota system to fairly distribute migrants after more than a million entered the region.
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The Czech Republic and other central European countries like Hungary, Poland and Slovakia have long opposed a Brussels-prescribed quota system to re-distribute asylum seekers.
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The number of mature female crabs rose to 7.8 million in 2017 from 9003 million in 2011 before the quota system began, according to commission data.
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American trade negotiators are proposing a quota system that would cap the volume of steel Canada and Mexico can export to the United States each year.
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It is proposing either an across-the-board import tariff of 0003 percent or a quota system limiting imports to 2000 percent of last year's levels.
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As a result, the WEF enacted a quota system mandating that companies bring at least one woman for every man in 2011, according to The Guardian.
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Under Pakistan's constitution, women are guaranteed seats through a quota system in the national parliament and regional assemblies in Punjab, Sindh, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces.
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In the early 1980s, hoping to put a floor on prices in the United States, the government set up a quota system to limit sugar imports.
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The Supreme Court ruled that the racial quota system used by the university did violate the Civil Rights Act and that Mr. Bakke should be admitted.
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The questions of who should take responsibility for those arriving — and whether there should be a quota system for European countries to share refugees — are fiercely disputed.
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The same power of presidential rhetoric can be seen in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which overturned the racist quota system in the 1924 act.
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Both the Congress Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party, which came to power in 2014, have at different times moved to include Jats in the quota system.
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In theory, Daub was referencing the Immigration and Nationality Act of 50, which abolished the quota system of years past and prioritized family members as new immigrants.
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Sadr believes that quota system, which was brought in after the 2003 invasion to ensure representation among the country's various sectarian groups, is hampering the country's progress.
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In 2015, 12 officers sued the city, alleging that retaliation and discrimination over the use of an illegal quota system for summonses and arrests violated their rights.
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There is a quota system in place for sellers not in the bloc — a certain amount of food shipped into the European Union is free of tariffs.
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But refusing to import could backfire for Canadian companies, as they could lose the right to import in future under the terms of the CETA quota system.
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In 2016, hundreds of Sadr's supporters stormed parliament inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone after he denounced politicians' failure to reform a political quota system blamed for rampant corruption.
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In Brussels, an EU official said even the compromise proposal on the table, while more acceptable to the bloc than a quota system, was not going far enough.
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It could also increase the pressure on EU members to back a formal quota system and common asylum rights and procedures to spread the burden across the union.
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Girls still spent more time on housework than boys, even after the quota system took effect — but the gap between the two genders did decline by 18 minutes.
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This quota system has largely failed — as of the end of May, only 12,690 migrants had been relocated from Italy and 21,999 from Greece, according to EU data.
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It was agreed over the furious objections of several central and eastern states, two of whom, Hungary and Slovakia, are contesting the quota system in the EU courts.
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Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions also created a quota system that requires judges to clear at least 700 cases a year in order to receive "satisfactory" performance evaluations.
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The United States has been trying to persuade Canada and Mexico to agree to a quota system for steel and aluminum in exchange for rolling back the tariffs.
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It was only with the civil rights movement of the 1960s that the national origin quota system was abolished and Congress fully removed the restriction favoring white immigrants.
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Canada dominates the global maple syrup trade, but in recent years, with many Canadian producers bound by a quota system and demand growing, imports from Maine have increased.
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By the time Kennedy opposed the national origins quota system that was imposed in the 1920s, it had long ceased to affect emigration from the home of his ancestors.
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One of the warehouse workers surveyed in the New York study said Amazon's strict quota system pressures workers to package 2,000 units in a day, four items per minute.
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Hundreds of the cleric's followers stormed into the Green Zone earlier and entered parliament after he denounced politicians' failure to reform a political quota system blamed for rampant corruption.
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The new purchases come at a time of confusion over payments of extra duties for U.S. shipments booked under a tariff-free quota system remained, the two traders said.
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The new purchases come at a time of confusion over payments of extra duties for U.S. shipments booked under a tariff-free quota system remained, the two traders said.
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The minister told Reuters in August that a change in the quota system for hydropower dams would take place over five or six years to avoid abrupt rate hikes.
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Under supply management, which came into existence during the 1970s, the amount of milk that dairy farmers in Canada can produce is set through a tightly controlled quota system.
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Bollinger, a case where O'Connor and the Court's liberals ruled that the University of Michigan Law School's racial affirmative action system was constitutional, and not an unconstitutional quota system.
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"We're also looking at some new ideas - the possibility to have a supply-production range per country," he said, referencing the potential for a quota system as proposed by Iran.
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BEIJING, June 17 (Reuters) - China will scrap a quota system that limits foreign investment in domestic securities markets when conditions are right, the central bank's research head said on Friday.
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Under a production quota system taking effect this year, automakers are required to produce and sell a certain number of new-energy vehicles in proportion to their overall sales volume.
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Under the deal, 120,000 asylum-seekers were to be relocated from Greece and Italy, countries on the frontlines of the crisis, to other member states under a mandatory quota system.
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At its founding, FAIR wanted to drastically cut immigration and was extremely critical of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which abolished a "national origins" quota system for immigrants.
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A study in France in 2015 based on interviews with 24 board members concluded that the country's new quota system led to changes in the process of boards' decision-making.
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They have proved less amenable, however, to adopting "European" values of social liberalism, with both Hungary and Poland refusing to accept Syrian refugees as part of an EU quota system.
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Thomas Oppermann, parliamentary leader of the Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's junior coalition partner, said that a deal on the quota system must be reached before another EU summit in March.
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Mexico will allow in U.S. pork under a quota system despite initial retaliatory measures in response to higher Mexican steel and aluminum imports tariffs set by U.S. President Donald Trump.
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CNN spoke to some of the protesters, and they expressed frustration over the quota system: "Why is it harder for us to get into universities, to get jobs?" they asked.
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And unfortunately, California's one-size-fits-all quota system only reinforces that assumption, and will inevitably lead to a box-checking approach that will further damage board credibility and performance.
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Bollinger, a case in which O'Connor and the Court's liberals ruled that the University of Michigan Law School's racial affirmative action system was constitutional, and not an unconstitutional quota system.
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The result: "Negotiations over improved market access for U.S. movie producers via China's strict quota system and a larger slice of profits have stalled," industry insiders told Reuters last month.
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The preference for family members can also be seen in the quota system that assigned annual limits by nationality and banned most Asian and African immigration from 22019 to 1965.
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The government will allow for imports of completely built units (CBU) - entire vehicles - for three years under a quota system as companies prepare for production of greener cars, the ministry said.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland will introduce a quota system allowing Britons to come and work in the country in the event Britain crashes out of the European Union without an exit deal.
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A number of central and eastern European governments are resisting an EU scheme under which member states should accept asylum seekers from countries such as Syria according to a quota system.
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Brazil's aluminum industry opted for 10 percent import tariffs, while the steel industry opted for an imports quota system, according to the statement issued jointly by the Foreign and Trade Ministries.
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In the near term, he's expecting Chinese officials to announce within days how they will structure an escalating quota system for so-called new energy vehicle sales in the coming years.
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Much of the region has since then resisted attempts by EU authorities in Brussels to enforce a continent-wide quota system for new arrivals, which Slovenia has however signed up for.
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But by 1988, the country's reputation as the leading baby exporter had become a national embarrassment, and the government introduced a quota system for international adoptions and began promoting domestic ones.
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He sought to seal off the country and defied efforts by the European Union to force member nations to share the burden equally by taking in migrants through a quota system.
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Traders can also game a quota system, stockpiling metal and then flooding the market when the quota period opens, which can lead to shortages for users and big profits for sellers.
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Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said the European Court of Justice's dismissal of appeals by Hungary and Slovakia against the migrant quota system the European Union launched in 2015 was "entirely unacceptable".
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The rejection by Prime Minister Manuel Valls of France on Saturday of Germany's proposal for a quota system to resettle refugees sends exactly the wrong message to other governments in the bloc.
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Harvesters, who struggle under a high quota system requiring them to collect a certain amount before they can earn their wages, often bring their wives and children to help make ends meet.
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" It adds, "One of the group's main goals is upending the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which ended a decades-long, racist quota system that limited immigration mostly to northern Europeans.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Countries granted exemptions to recently enacted U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs will still be subject to a quota system for imports, White House trade advisor Peter Navarro said on Tuesday.
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The earlier LTS draft seen by Reuters carried annotations from Iran and Algeria for measures to support prices such as a price target or floor and a return to OPEC's quota system.
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On a recent afternoon, we sat down with the former cop to discuss the alleged quota system, the pending lawsuit, and what it could mean for policing in New York and America.
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Brussels also confirmed it was taking Hungary - along with eastern EU peers Poland and the Czech Republic - to the tribunal over refusing to host asylum-seekers under an EU-wide quota system.
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The four officers bringing the lawsuit—Ritchie Baez, Sandy Gonzalez, Edwin Raymond, and Pedro Serrano—claim they faced discrimination and retaliation for speaking out against an illegal quota system and racist policies.
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The current Parliament contains 36 Christians out of 596 members, and 24 of the Christian representatives were awarded seats through a religion-based quota system, according to a report from the Brookings Institution.
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The E Fund Hang Seng China Enterprises Index ETF for example, an onshore exchange-traded fund managed by a quota system tracking the HSCE, has seen huge inflows from Chinese investors this year.
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Last Tuesday, supporters of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed the Green Zone and broke into the parliament building, attacking deputies and demanding reforms to a political quota system blamed for rampant corruption.
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Yet a survey by GulfTalent found that, in 2014, 95% of employers in Oman reported that the quota system was a real challenge, as did 84% in Saudi Arabia and 55% in Bahrain.
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According to a paper from the William & Mary Law Review, it's unclear if Congress, which has regulatory oversight of federal elections, has the legal authority to pass a law establishing a quota system.
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Since the US toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein, the US-backed Iraqi government has doled out political posts based on a quota system that divides power between Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish groups.
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The quota system has been heavily criticised by the United States, which last year won a World Trade Organisation ruling that China violated its obligation to administer the quota on a fair basis.
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THR acknowledges that the decision may have been due to the quota system that China applies to foreign films — it usually reserves slots for big budget blockbusters, which, um, Christopher Robin is not.
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University students largely sat out last week's protests, but have been protesting for months about a quota system for government jobs and university spots that they claim is plagued by nepotism and corruption.
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Poland initially supported the quota system, but the anti-immigrant, right-wing populist government that came to power a month after the deal was struck has since refused to accept refugees under the scheme.
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The Hungarian government has been campaigning intensely against the quota system, and it voted against the plan along with the Czech Republic, Romania and Slovakia at the height of the migrant crisis in September.
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In China, Wanda also holds a trump card over the other major studios in that it is a Chinese-owned/operated business, allowing it to navigate and potentially circumnavigate the Chinese theatrical quota system.
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Harvard is defending its policies for admitting new students from a lawsuit brought by a group of Asian-American applicants who say they were kept out by an informal quota system at the school.
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The Justice Department will be implementing a new quota system to federal immigration judges' performance reviews, reports the WSJ, under which judges will be expected to clear 700 cases to receive a "satisfactory" rating.
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PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic cannot rule out legal action if the European Union tries to put in place any permanent quota system for distributing asylum seekers, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said on Sunday.
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Authorities are also now ironing out the details of a mandatory renewable energy quota system that will compel grid firms and big power consumers to acquire a minimum proportion of electricity from clean sources.
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Not only have personal attitudes changed, but the Hart-Celler Act of 1965 — which upended American immigration policy by abolishing the quota system based on national origins — has also transformed the country's demographic character.
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In the mid-'80s, students and professors began to accuse elite colleges like Brown, Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, of using a quota system to limit the number of Asian-American students.
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In 1924, the country adopted a quota system for immigrants based on national origin, giving rise to the idea that there were unwanted, "illegal" immigrants, said Mae Ngai, a history professor at Columbia University.
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At the time, he believed that such a system would enshrine the dominance of European immigration without the overt ugliness of the National Origins Quota System that had been in place since the 1920s.
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" • "For Beijing to guarantee the sales would require it to put together a kind of quota system, industry officials argued, and that mechanism could later be used to dole out contracts to Chinese firms.
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It also pledged to introduce tiered water pricing in urban regions in a bid to encourage conservation, and said it would also create a water usage quota system covering all major agricultural and industrial products.
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In particular, the question of how to fairly distribute and rehouse possible refugees among the 28 nations within the EU has proved divisive with several eastern European countries opposing a quota system to receive people.
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Michael Moebs - a Wells Fargo executive in the 1970s and later a consultant to the bank for two decades - said the bank's quota system would have been more appropriate for selling cars than car loans.
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In 2015 the European Union ended a quota system for milk-producers, part of an effort to reduce subsidies and let a freer market function (draining a notorious "milk lake" and melting a "butter mountain").
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"The expectation is that Brazilian imports will continue to rise until the expiration of the quota system in 2019," Carla Suarez, president of Mexican meat trade group Consejo de la Carne, told Reuters in August.
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Voters in a number of eastern members of the European Union - notably Hungary and Poland - have turned to parties which oppose the bloc's plans under which countries would accept asylum seekers under a quota system.
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"It's hard to watch this happen," said Jose Cano Herdeia, 30, a black Brazilian who attributed his education at a private university to a racial quota system put in place by Mr. da Silva's government.
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The act wasn't repealed until 0003 when China officially became a U.S. ally in World War II, and even then Chinese migrants were subjected to a competitive quota system in order to enter the country.
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A spokesman then issued a list of demands, including sacking the prime minister, president and parliament speaker; prosecuting corrupt officials; ending the quota system; reforming the judiciary and the election commission; and televising parliament sessions.
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But the anti-immigrant message Okamura seized on has had wider backing in the Czech society, with all major political parties rejecting a quota system for redistributing migrants that have arrived in the European Union.
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In a call with reporters, AILA representatives and a retired immigration judge argued that while the report doesn't explicitly reject a quota system, it's clear that putting one in place is contrary to the recommendation.
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But it was not until October 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act, which abolished the quota system and allowed family reunification, that Chinese immigrants started coming in greater numbers.
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary will not relinquish any of its national sovereignty to the European Union and will keep fighting against the EU's quota system for taking in asylum-seekers, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told Reuters.
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Under former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Justice Department took the unprecedented step of implementing a quota system that required judges to clear at least 700 cases a year to receive a "satisfactory" performance evaluation.
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The range is large: In Poland, for instance, a female prime minister, Beata Szydlo, is among 27 percent of female lawmakers in the lower house of Parliament after the 2015 elections introduced a quota system.
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Later on Saturday in Baghdad, hundreds of supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr stormed into Baghdad's Green Zone and entered parliament after Sadr denounced politicians' failure to reform a political quota system blamed for rampant corruption.
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Later on Saturday in Baghdad, hundreds of supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr stormed into Baghdad's Green Zone and entered parliament after Sadr denounced politicians' failure to reform a political quota system blamed for rampant corruption. ????????????
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The right-wing nationalist Orban, re-elected in April to a third consecutive term, has spearheaded eastern European resistance to EU moves to have member states accept asylum seekers and migrants under a quota system.
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It comes one year after the U.S. analytics firm told Beijing further liberalization was needed before acceptance, pointing to factors such as the country's investment quota system that doesn't provide equal access to all money managers.
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In the most lenient recommendation, Commissioner Meredith Broadbent said the president should impose a four-year quota system that allows for imports of up to 8.9 gigawatts of solar cells and modules in the first year.
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Alexandre Moreau, who wrote a critical report about the quota system for the conservative institute earlier this year, said the tariff will help the Federation amid growing imports from the United States, where prices have dropped.
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For the idea of quotas for political representation remains controversial, even though the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance says half of the world's countries now use some form of gender quota system.
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The quota system makes it impossible for buyers to know more than five days before delivery whether their goods will be subject to the tariff because there is no way to apply for quota in advance.
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A century ago, a number of selective colleges grew concerned about the burgeoning cohort of Jewish students; some used a de-facto quota system to limit their numbers, and to protect access for non-Jewish whites.
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JAKARTA, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Indonesia has abolished its quota system for cattle imports, allowing firms to bring in the livestock as long as they commit to the country's breeding programme, the trade minister said on Monday.
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Thousands of troops have been deployed to quell protests led by the Jat caste, which wants the same access to government jobs and higher education that lower castes in India are given under a quota system.
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Immigration restriction, at first limited to Asia, expanded in the early 1920s, when a nativist drive led to a draconian quota system that slashed immigration levels to 21965 percent of the foreign-born population in 21990.
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As the city's two largest groups are locked in contention, its smallest - Christians - suspect their eight candidates, guaranteed one seat under a quota system, are being courted by bigger, rival political forces in Baghdad and Erbil.
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EKRE is the second largest partner in Estonia's government whose program includes some of the party's strict immigration policies and pledges that Estonia will not take in refugees as part of a European Union-wide quota system.
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The recommendations range from an immediate 35 percent tariff on all imported panels to a four-year quota system that allows the import of up to 8.9 gigawatts of solar cells and modules in the first year.
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Moscow-educated Lajcak, who oversaw the 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, has on occasion tempered Fico's anti-immigrant stance in Europe's migration crisis, but also objected to a quota system for distributing asylum seekers among EU member states.
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Our domestic garment and footwear assembly business was protected by a quota system and by a tariff system, both of which failed over time, and the proof of that shows today as we are 98 percent imported.
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They are listed as an upper caste which means they are excluded from a quota system for government jobs, but as a social group they are now experiencing downward mobility and missing out on urban job opportunities.
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Over the years he has adjusted to a series of changes, including the development of a quota system that allows individuals and companies the right to catch, process and sell a predetermined amount of fish each year.
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Obtaining permission to trophy hunt in Mongolia is an insider&aposs game featuring a poorly tracked quota system, said Nathan Conaboy, a researcher who helped author a 2016 Zoological Society of London study of argali in Mongolia.
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With 14 mostly government-owned teams, the Saudi Professional League hires foreign players under a quota system - players come from as far afield as Ghana and Brazil - but does not have a major international profile outside the region.
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In September, the European Court of Justice rejected a legal challenge to the quota system from former Communist countries, including Hungary and the Czech Republic, which argued they were not equipped to accommodate people from mainly Muslim countries.
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Poland will not accept the EU's refugee quota system that would mean the country would have to accept more than 7 percent of all immigrants coming to Europe, Gazeta Polska daily quoted interior minister Mariusz Blaszczak as saying.
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Eventually, 26 individuals were arrested in a case that took on strange overtones of underclass rage — some outlets pointed out the unfairness of the Federation's byzantine quota system and singular control of the market — and two pled guilty.
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As a result, the percentage of women represented in the strategic partners' group has more than doubled to 20 percent from 9 percent in 2011 when the quota system was introduced, a WEF spokesman told Reuters on Saturday.
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Guajardo said the signatories to the treaty would have to make clear publicly what areas of NAFTA were up for renegotiation, adding Mexico did not want to discuss higher tariffs or an even more draconian export quota system.
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Despite a slowdown in box office sales in the Chinese market, U.S. studios are increasingly looking to it to boost global revenues, though they face issues from a local quota system for imported films to questions over censorship.
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A 2016 UNDP report said women's representation in the Kyrgyz parliament "remains open to all sorts of manipulations" with female members of parliament elected through the quota system often pressured to give up their seats after being elected.
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Indicated 21 percent lower Europe's largest sugar refiner will continue with its cost savings programme and will have to see how business develops after the EU quota system ends, its chief executive has told daily newspaper Mannheimer Morgen.
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The host of the meeting on Friday, Slovakia, is suing the European Union authorities over a quota system that requires it to accept Muslim refugees from Greece and Italy, where many asylum seekers first arrive in the bloc.
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We are not even Rwanda, where, after the genocide, a quota system ensured that 30 percent of government positions were filled by women, who brought with them basic policy innovations like seat-belt regulation—and, oh yes, peace.
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Seehofer criticized the EU for its inability to control its external borders and for what he called a "moralizing" tone toward eastern European states who have refused to take in asylum seekers under an EU-wide quota system.
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So while other athletes qualified ahead of Swaney, she was able to ski for Hungary thanks to that quota system and a dearth of other athletes from countries that had not already sent four competitors to the event.
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The officers claim they faced retaliation from the New York Police Department because they objected to what they said was a longstanding quota system for arrests and tickets, which they argued mainly affected black and Hispanic New Yorkers.
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"Prices will recover at some point, but we don't expect them to make it to the level we enjoyed under the quota system," Cristal Union Chief Executive Alain Commissaire said in his opening remarks at the Dubai Sugar Conference.
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We're only feeling the heat from this shortage now, but it actually began with the abolition of the EU's milk quota system back in 218, a decision intended to help European dairy producers perform better on the international market.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Hundreds of supporters of Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed parliament inside Baghdad's Green Zone on Saturday and camped out nearby after Sadr denounced politicians' failure to reform a political quota system blamed for rampant corruption.
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EU members Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia are deeply opposed to any quota system and want tighter controls on the borders of Balkan countries neighboring Greece if attempts to limit the numbers from Turkey to Greece fail.
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Hungary to hold EU migrant quota referendum by October Hungary will hold a referendum in September or early October on whether to accept any future European Union quota system for resettling migrants, the prime minister's office said on Tuesday.
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Now, in a landmark class-action federal lawsuit—which includes the Staten Island precinct and others across the city—12 minority officers are suing the New York City Police Department over what they say is a rampant quota system.
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The quota system was introduced as part of an effort to relieve the burden on Greece and Italy, where migrants — many of them fleeing the war in Syria — reached the European Union in huge numbers in 2015 and 2016.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who defied Brussels by shutting out migrants, plans a referendum in October to reject the EU policy of sharing the burden of accepting asylum seekers stranded in Greece and Italy through a quota system.
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The Chinese market, which has a quota system on foreign films, is more complicated than that; while "Black Panther" earned a relatively middling $105 million there, for example, "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" made less than half that amount.
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Now, in his most high-profile cause of the moment, he has asserted that Harvard University's affirmative action policies amount to an illegal quota system that denies high-achieving Asian-American students admission in numbers commensurate with their qualifications.
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Venice follows other European film festivals Cannes and Locarno in pledging to get an equal number of men and women in its top management by 2020 – but it has ruled out any quota system for selecting films to compete.
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Unlike Hungary and Poland, it has avoided any conflicts with the European Commission over rule of law or other democratic principles, although it did clash with Brussels over its refusal to accept asylum seekers under an EU quota system.
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A patent lawyer who claims he was fired for putting his ethical obligation as an attorney above L'Oreal's "quota system" for new patents has 60 days to serve the Paris-based company, a federal judge in New Jersey ruled on Tuesday.
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He believes that not having "the numbers" cost him a promotion, and now he's one of 12 plaintiffs in a class-action suit on behalf of minority officers that blames a quota system the Police Department says does not exist.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will aim to launch a new renewable power quota system before the end of the year, the state planning agency said on Tuesday, part of efforts to make better use of its renewable energy resources and reduce waste.
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In the meantime, the possibility of regulation being loosened offers a glimmer of hope for producers like Varin whose outright rejection of the quota system has them staring down a double barrel of hefty fines and syrup seizures by the federation.
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Merkel aides said that the two-day EU summit starting on Thursday will not focus on a divisive quota system to distribute refugees among member states but on how to secure the bloc's external borders to stem the flow of migrants.
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Republicans in the U.S. Congress required efforts to remove the exemption before they supported legislation in December to implement a long-delayed reform of the Fund's quota system to give more voting power to emerging markets including China and Brazil.
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Hollywood has turned to co-productions with a China partner to avoid a quota system that limits big-budget imported feature films to 34 per year and limits foreign studios from keeping more than one-quarter of Chinese box-office revenues.
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The influx of migrants to Central European countries has been much lower, although countries in the region have often taken a tough stance on the issue and opposed a quota system for asylum seekers agreed by EU member states last year.
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The plan being considered would be a departure from the current quota system that keeps electricity rates low, allowing hydroelectric plants to sell their output at higher prices in exchange for paying a contract-renewal bonus to the federal government.
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BRUSSELS — Days after a wave of deportations of migrants arriving in Europe from Turkey, the European Union's executive arm proposed a new quota system for members accepting asylum seekers to ease the burden on the nations confronted with an overwhelming influx.
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In the aftermath of World War I, a new "national origins" quota system sought to turn back the American demographic clock, with European immigrants admitted in proportion to the presence of their "nationality" in the American population based on earlier censuses.
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Mr. Orban contended in a local radio interview that Hungary has a "moral duty" to refuse to take in refugees or asylum seekers as part of any European quota system — setting the stage for yet another bruising battle with Brussels.
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"I've been told at the time there was a quota system in the league," in which teams "may have wanted only two or three blacks," Ramsey told Charles Salzberg for the oral history "From Set Shot to Slam Dunk" (1987).
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"When you put any type of numbers on a police officer to perform, we are going to go to the most vulnerable," Adhyl Polanco, a New York City police officer who's suing the city over its alleged quota system, told WNBC.
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LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Hungary and Slovakia told the European Union's top court on Wednesday that sharing out asylum-seekers among member states under a quota system was unlawful, clashing with Germany, France and others in a dispute that threatens to tear the bloc apart.
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She suggested she was open to changes in the EU's planned quota system, which aims to transfer of about 160,000 asylum seekers from Greece and Italy to other EU states, but said it was important to find a solution that shared responsibility.
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Unlike the quota system proposed by the European Commission, the matching system would neither coerce countries to take in refugees against their will, nor would it require an European Union-wide agreement over the total number of asylum slots offered by the Union.
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The Hart-Cellar Act, amended the INA, abolished the national origins quota system, and created a preference system based on family relationships and immigrant skills; The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment: This clause prohibits government actions that favor one religion over another.
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Similarly, a legislative analysis of the bill cautioned that it could get challenged on equal protection grounds, and that it would be difficult to defend, requiring the state to prove a compelling government interest in such a quota system for a private corporation.
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"We're hopeful this extension moves us toward the most productive path for our domestic steel industry — the tariffs President Trump announced earlier this year and a quota system to limit the amount of imports flooding our country," Leebow said in a statement.
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The Harvard case asserts that the university's admissions process amounts to an illegal quota system, in which roughly the same percentage of African-Americans, Hispanics, whites and Asian-Americans have been admitted year after year, despite fluctuations in application rates and qualifications.
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While the U.S. has never had a formal quota system in education, the effects of systemic racism have in many ways created a de-facto caste system that predates the founding of the country and still affects the everyday lives of millions.
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TORONTO/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A trade deal meant to give European cheesemakers more access to the Canadian market is falling short of its promise in its first full year, government data show, frustrating the European industry, which blames a year-old Ottawa quota system.
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"We're hopeful this extension moves us toward the most productive path for our domestic steel industry - the tariffs President Trump announced earlier this year and a quota system to limit the amount of imports flooding our country," Leebow said in a statement.
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The EU devised a quota system in 2015 that aimed to distribute a total 160,000 migrants throughout the 28 nations in order to alleviate pressures on frontline countries, but the scheme was not successful and an alternative is expected to be debated on Thursday.
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Slovakia has been a strong critic of EU attempts to stem the flow of refugees fleeing conflict from in the Middle East and North Africa, and has sued the EU over a quota system to distribute asylum seekers agreed by a majority vote last year.
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Although 1,200 Qataris are eligible to perform the haj under a quota system, Qatar says it has become impossible to get permits, blaming the campaign by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt to cut trade and diplomatic ties with the country.
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Ties between Germany and Poland have worsened since the right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS) came to power in Warsaw in 2015, with the two countries also at odds over Poland's refusal to take in asylum seekers under an EU-wide quota system.
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It was popular in the 1920s, in the wake of an earlier surge in immigrant flows, and inspired the enactment of two restrictive laws: the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924, which together established a quota system based on national origins.
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"We, the MPs holding the sit-in parliament building ... demand that a government of technocrats and professionals be formed, away from the quota system that allows the political blocs to split the rights of the people among themselves," said Sunni lawmaker Ahmed al-Jobouri in a statement.
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BRUSSELS — The European Union won an important victory on Wednesday in its fractured effort to deal with the huge wave of migration that began in 2500, as the bloc's top court ruled that Hungary and Slovakia were obligated to accept migrants under a contentious quota system.
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China's state-run refineries have in recent months started pilot production of low-sulphur fuel ahead of the IMO rule taking effect next year, and a Sinopec executive has asked the government to introduce tax rebates and a quota system to boost output of the cleaner fuel.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The Brazilian government is likely to adopt a quota system for ethanol imports, allowing 600 million liters into the country per year free of tax and imposing a 20 percent tariff on volumes in excess of that quota, cane industry group Unica said on Monday.
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In 1995, only nine years after the moratorium came into force, the management of the Alaskan black-cod fishery was changed from a free-for-all that lasted ten days a year to a quota system in which boats had an 8½ month season to catch their allotment.
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Some EU members, including Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, are deeply opposed to any quota system and their leaders said this week that there should be tighter controls on the borders of Balkan countries neighboring Greece if attempts to limit the numbers from Turkey to Greece failed.
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In 2016, Cricket South Africa introduced a quota system to the top level of the sport—it had already been implemented at the provincial level for some time—and since then, the men's team must include at least six non-white players, two of whom must be black African.
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While some such as Kuwait and Qatar appeared to lean towards the Saudi Arabian way of thinking - agreeing on the need for an output ceiling - others such as Venezuela and Algeria seemed to agree with Iran, which said an output ceiling must be accompanied by a country-specific quota system.
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Oil markets are gearing up for an informal meeting of oil cartel OPEC in Algeria next week and RBC Capital Market's respected oil expert, Helima Croft, has predicted that – this time – the meeting could produce some kind of deal to freeze oil output or return to a country-specific quota system.
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The commission also took two other steps — it proposed changes to a quota system for asylum seekers, and recommended keeping in place some internal European border controls for at least another six months — as part of a package that represents one of the most comprehensive efforts to manage the migrant influx.
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The EU tried to help frontline countries under immense pressure from the sheer number of arrivals in 2015 by setting up "hotspot" centers where migrants could be identified, registered and processed before being relocated to other member states, according to a contested EU quota system designed to relocate 120,000 refugees.
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In an account he gave to the Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics in 21953, Dr. Motulsky said his family had hoped to join his father's brother in Chicago but headed for Cuba instead after hearing that a United States quota system was causing long delays in granting visas.
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Switzerland and the UK have already signed agreements on trade, road transport, air transport and insurance to ensure continuity after the UK leaves the EU. Switzerland has also created a temporary quota system that would allow 3,500 British citizens to come and work in Switzerland in the event of a disorderly Brexit.
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To try to resolve the impasse, the Trump administration has proposed switching Canada's current 25 percent tariff on steel and 10 percent tariff on aluminum to a quota system, in which a specific amount of Canadian metal would be allowed into the United States each year, people familiar with the discussions say.
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In addition to Medicare, Medicaid, civil rights legislation and the Higher Education Act, in a relatively short span of time Congress also passed federal aid for elementary education, food stamps, Head Start, immigration reform that ended the quota system put into place in 1924, arts funding, a war on poverty and more.
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She wants to stem the influx by improving conditions at Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan, giving Turkey aid in exchange for a crackdown on people smugglers responsible for the passage into Europe of many of the migrants from that country, and distributing refugees across the EU based on a quota system.
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Donald J. Trump called the Belgian capital "a hellhole," while Lubomir Zaoralek, the foreign minister of the Czech Republic, recently cited the city to explain why his and other Eastern European countries had steadfastly resisted a plan by the European Union to spread Syrian and other Muslim refugees around the Continent under a quota system.
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From the country's first naturalization law in 2202 that limited citizenship to "free white persons," to the exclusion of Chinese immigrants beginning in 2628, to the racialized "national origins" quota system erected in the 28500s that favored Western European immigrants and excluded Asian immigrants, the United States long regulated immigration along unapologetically racist criteria.
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The DEA not only helps enforce the law against illicitly produced drugs like heroin and fentanyl as part of its broader efforts in the war on drugs, but it also controls the regulatory quota system for opioid painkillers — a power that it has only lightly wielded as doctors have prescribed more and more of the medications.
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The feed-in-tariff will fall by at least 10 percent on projects smaller than 20 gigawatts (GW) and by at least 20 percent on projects larger than 20 GW. Electricity traded on the distributed power market will be counted in renewable power quotas when China fully enforces the quota system on power consumers in 2018.
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When EU ministers passed a mandatory migrant relocation plan, assigning refugee quotas to each member country, Orbán's government challenged the measure in court, continued construction on a 325-mile border fence to stem the flow of migrants, recruited some 3,000 "border hunters" to police the frontier, and held a referendum on whether Hungary should comply with the quota system.
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One of the pivotal events in defining American identity was the Immigration Act of 1924, which sharply limited the number of immigrants admitted into the country and set up a quota system which privileged Northwestern European and Scandinavian countries over Southern European and Eastern European ones, while reducing African and Arab immigration to a trickle and excluding Asians entirely.
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"Definitely, if he negotiates hard on some of these things, we could see a more interventionist approach than we have in the past," said Catherine Beard, head of industry association Business NZ. MILLION-DOLLAR HIT The idea is a quota-system would force more logs to be sold and processed locally, adding value to the NZ$270 billion economy.
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And as the Union digests a Brexit vote last year that was partly driven by concern over migration, many states that backed the quota system in 2015 and are increasingly exasperated by Polish and Hungarian hostility to Brussels are also reluctant to force through new policies that may bolster eurosceptics across Europe who say the EU is trampling on national sovereignty.
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The relevant legal precepts include: The Immigration & Nationality Act of 1965, legislation that bans discrimination on the basis of race, nationality and ancestry, created by Congress to get rid of the old 'quota' system; The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, which prohibits government actions that favor one religion over another and, The Due Process & Equal Protection Clauses of the Constitution.
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In vetoing a 1952 immigration bill (a veto Congress would override), Truman took on the central logic of the quota system: "The idea behind this discriminatory policy was, to put it baldly, that Americans with English or Irish names were better people and better citizens than Americans with Italian or Greek or Polish names," he wrote in his veto statement.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp has agreed to sell electric car technology to Singulato, its first deal with a Chinese electric vehicle startup, allowing the fledgling firm to speed up development of a planned mini EV. In return, Toyota will have preferential rights to purchase green-car credits that Singulato will generate under China's new quota system for all-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles.
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In my work as a scholar of Jewish immigration, I examine with my students the ways in which the very architecture of our entire immigration quota system was built on the linking of anti-Semitism and other forms of racism to nativist beliefs about the threat posed by "new" immigrants, namely individuals from Southern and Eastern Europe, to the moral fiber of the nation.
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The right-wing critique focuses on race, arguing that racial preferences are corrosive to merit-based admissions, because the quest for racial balance creates unfair and discrediting results — a "not too many Asians, please" quota system, a seeming tilt against lower-middle-class white applicants, and a bias (to the point of credulity, in the Louisiana case) in favor of African-Americans and Hispanics.
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Would-be Irish immigrants were having a difficult time getting a green card after the Immigration Act of 229 got rid of a quota system that awarded visas on the basis of national origin in favor of one that favored reuniting families and attracting skilled labor to the US. As a result, Irish-American lawmakers made the diversity visa program a part of the Immigration Act of 215, Pierce said.
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The Court also found the President did not comply with the statutory requirements established in 1980 governing the admission of refugees in restricting entry via the EO. Another Congressional statute featured large in the Court's analysis: the immigrant visa non-discrimination provision with respect to nationality, enacted in 1965 when Congress put an end to the national origins quota system that had highly favored Western and Northern European nationalities.
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The quota system is one of the biggest sources of frustration for British fishermen, who were among the most vocal supporters of the June 2016 vote to leave the EU. For the last 34 years, the Common Fisheries Policy quota has given 84 percent of the cod in the English Channel to France and just 9 percent to Britain, for example, according to Britain's National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations (NFFO).
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These country caps, introduced in 1965, replaced a quota system based on national origin, which tied the number of immigrants admitted from any country to past census counts of how many immigrants of their nationality were already living in the US. The change led to a fundamental shift in US immigration, opening the door to more immigrants outside Northern Europe, including, for example, those displaced by conflicts in Southeast Asia.
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The EU's deal with Turkey has not been enough to assuage the concerns of certain eastern European nations over migration to the EU. Hungary and its ruling, right-wing Fidesz government has been one of the more vociferous opponents of the EU's migrant policy response and it is holding a referendum on October 2 on whether it should reject the EU's migrant quota system (which would see the country have to accept a certain quota of migrants).
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Merkel wants to stem the influx by improving conditions at Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan, distribute refugees across the EU through a quota system and giving Turkey aid in exchange for a crackdown on people smugglers responsible for the passage into Europe of many of the migrants' Both she and Davutoglu said that peace talks next week aimed at ending the war in Syria will be a key element in stemming the flow of refugees to Europe.
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