1.   The US immigration laws imposed a strict annual quota for each country of origin.

2.   The agency imposes strict fishing quotas.

3.   Although the state hiring plan is not a strict quota, Alec MacMillan, Civil Service Commission chairman, said he thought the proposed ballot question could undercut it.

4.   Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, it and Iran were the sole nations on the sea, and they obeyed strict quotas.

5.   In order to make certain that we keep affirmative action, we have to reject the idea of strict numerical quotas.

6.   Remedies for such discrimination should avoid strict racial quotas and face periodic reviews to make sure they are still needed, the department said.

7.   Strict quotas for each country limit output and keep prices high.

8.   The increasingly blurry line between Guangdong and Hong Kong enabled the garment industry to evade strict quotas placed on clothing exported from China.

9.   The old policy, with its strict quota, was viewed as too broadly drawn to withstand constitutional scrutiny.

10.   Thousands of Spanish fishermen face the loss of their livelihoods if Madrid agrees to accept strict quotas for turbot.