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quota and reserved
In the elections of February 1961, KANU won 19 of the 33 African seats while KADU won 11 ( twenty seats were reserved by quota for Europeans, Asians, and Arabs ).
The trial court found that the special program operated as a racial quota, because minority applicants in that program were rated only against one another, and 16 places in the class were reserved for the clause.
Lycée graduates may continue their higher education in Galatasaray University, where 25 percent of the enrollment quota is reserved for them, but are also subject to examination.
15 % of total seats are reserved for All India quota to be filled through All India Premedical entrance test conducted by the CBSE.
Another important recent development in university admissions in Brazil has been the introduction in most federal universities of a quota system where a certain number of places are reserved a priori to applicants of a certain racial / ethnic background who have completed their pre-university studies in a public ( i. e. state-funded ) school.
• On becoming the Chief Minister of Bihar for second time in 1980, amendment was made in the reservation policy so as to provide that backward candidates selected on their own merit ( without availing benefits of reservation policy ) would not be counted within the reserved quota, i. e., they would be adjusted within the general quota.

quota and seats
A successful candidate must achieve a quota, which is " calculated by dividing the Total Valid Poll by one more than the number of seats to be filled, ignoring any remainder and then adding 1 vote.
The process repeats until all seats are filled either when the required number of candidates achieve the quota or until the number of remaining candidates matches the number of remaining seats.
Under Hare's method, simply dividing the vote by the number of seats constituted the quota and then the surplus was expected to be distributed ' at random '.
The Droop quota is the smallest number that guarantees that no more candidates can reach the quota than the number of seats available to be filled.
This gives the Droop quota the special property that it is the smallest integral quota which guarantees that the number of candidates able to reach this quota cannot exceed the number of seats.
The quota is in fact constructed to ensure that it is mathematically impossible for candidates to achieve the quota beyond the number of available seats.
To see how the Droop quota works in an STV election imagine an election in which there are 2 seats to be filled and 3 candidates: Andrea, Carter and Brad.
If a party wins more FPTP seats than the proportional quota received by the party-list vote, these surplus seats become overhang seats to restore a full proportionality.
While for the first two additional list seats are simply denied to parties, in the last case a fairer procedure was proposed of subtracting the constituency seats won by parties with overhang seats from the total number of seats and recalculating the quota ( the largest remainder method was also recommended ) to proportionally redistribute the list seats to the other parties.
For an election, a quota is calculated, usually the total number of votes cast divided by the number of seats to be allocated ( the Hare quota ).

quota and for
The fund's statewide quota this year is $8,250 to provide Christmas gifts for needy youngsters.
These emperors followed a policy of large-scale resettlement within the empire of defeated barbarian tribes, granting them land in return for an obligation of military service much heavier than the usual conscription quota.
Value of agricultural output grew at an average annual rate of 7. 1 % during 1968 – 73, but since 1975 the sector has been hampered by droughts ( 1975, 1977, and 1979 ), hurricanes ( in 1979 and 1980 ), and slumping world prices and quota allocations for sugar ( since 1985 ).
He said that in place of the ban, the Vanuatu government had introduced a restrictive new quota system for imports which would make it " impossible " to export to Vanuatu.
France installed an import quota of 1: 7, meaning for every seven foreign films imported to France, one French film was to be produced and shown in French cinemas.
The act was technically a success, with audiences for British films becoming larger than the quota required.
But it had the effect of creating a market for ' quota quickies ': poor quality, low cost films, made in order to satisfy the quota.
Currently, the annual quota for the gray whale catch in the region is 140 per year.
After an agreement was reached with the European Union ( EU ) to increase Honduras's banana quota to the EU, the large banana companies were avid for additional land for increased production to meet the anticipated new demand from Europe.
The outlook for the sugar industry, which had boomed during the 1980s when Honduran producers were allowed to fill Nicaragua's sugar quota to the United States, seemed bleak in 1993.
When passed and the reloader can provide a reason for his will to reload (" Bedürfnisprüfung "), he can apply for a permit to a quota of propellant for five years ( after which time he has to extend the permit ).
Unlike in a large number of states, there is no domicile quota in JU as well as for the remaining engineering colleges admitting students through the WBJEE.
Signed by Woodside two weeks after the February 1, 2005 legislation authorizing the four amendments, they provided for a lower state quota in the profit-oil, and reduced taxes by 15 percent in certain zones.
Since the overall annual passive quota for the United States is 42, this means that it will be obligated to accept no more than 31 observation flights a year during this three-year period.
Only two flights were requested over the United States during 2005, by the Russian Federation and Republic of Belarus Group of States Parties ( which functions as a single entity for quota allocation purposes ).
If the constituency is in a jurisdiction using PR-STV in its MMDs, an absolute majority of 50 % plus 1 will likely be the minimum required for victory ( depending on which quota is used ) so that the election in the SMD is by the alternative vote.
The privileges mentioned herein covers — few of which — the economical and education aspects of Malaysians, e. g. the Malaysian New Economic Policy ; an economic policy recently criticised by Thierry Rommel — who headed a European Commission's delegation to Malaysia — as an excuse for " significant protectionism " and a quota maintaining higher access of Malays into public universities.
Since 1992, the IWC's Scientific Committee has requested that it be allowed to give quota proposals for some whale stocks, but this has so far been refused by the Plenary Committee.
In April 2009 Greenland landed its first bowhead whale in nearly forty years after being given a quota by the IWC in 2008 for two whales a year until 2012.

quota and was
The difficulty was that each day seemed to produce its quota of details which must be cleaned up immediately.
The client tries to connect to the nodes it was shipped, as well as nodes it receives from other clients, until it reaches a certain quota.
Conscription was based on the ahmudan system, which required local chiefs to supply their predetermined quota of men from their jurisdiction on the basis of population in times of war.
Gaines was strict about enforcing this quota, and one year, longtime writer and frequent traveller Arnie Kogen was bumped off the list.
The drop in the petroleum sector was caused by adherence to the OPEC quota established in 2002 and the virtual cessation of exports during the PdVSA-led Venezuelan general strike of 2002-2003.
For the 2012 commercial whaling season, starting in April and lasting six months, the quota was set to 216 minke whales.
The quota was reduced to zero in that year due to sustainability concerns.
The studio focused on making ' quota quickies ' for the domestic British market and Irving Asher was appointed as the studio's head producer.
Later, in 1943, the Chinese were given a small quota, and the community's population gradually increased until 1968, when the quota was lifted and the Chinese American population skyrocketed.
Although the school had already selected its semester quota, Kelly obtained an interview with the school's admission officer, Emile Diestel, and was admitted due to her uncle George.
He was the top civil and military leader of the commandery and handled defense, lawsuits, seasonal instructions to farmers and recommendations of nominees for office sent annually to the capital in a quota system first established by Emperor Wu.
In 1990, the Supreme Court found that a 10 % racial quota for federal contractors was permitted.
America suspends sugar quota ; ( sugar was 80 % of Cuban exports to America ); Soviet Union agrees to buy Cuban sugar and provide oil ; Cuba seizes $ 1. 5 billion of American properties ; America imposes complete trade embargo ( except food, medicine );
A quota of 50 immigrants per year was established.
Preferential access based on a quota system was agreed for products, such as sugar and beef, in competition with EC agriculture.
Guðmundur Eiríksson of Iceland stated at NAMMCO's inaugural meeting that the organisation was established in part out of dissatisfaction with the IWC's zero-catch quota.
Failure to comply on the part of Argentine beef producers has been met with a punitive suspension of exports, starting March 2006, intended to increase domestic supply ( this was then softened to a quota system ).
And though its territory was more than once laid waste by the Carthaginians, it was still one of the eighteen Latin colonies which in 209 BCE were at once able and willing to furnish the required quota of men and money for continuing the war.

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