"adopt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It adopted quotas in 1977, but dropped them five years later under pressure from fishermen.
- Later, facing assertions that such language would force businesses to adopt quotas, the supporters made changes, watering down the bill.
- President Bush vetoed a version of the measure last year on the ground that it would lead businesses to adopt quotas in hiring and promotion.
- He complained that the bill would force employers to adopt quotas for hiring and promoting members of minority groups.
- The Administration argued that the bill would inevitably drive employers to adopt quotas rather than defend their practices in court.
- The best evidence of that danger would be that from 1971 to 1989, many employers in fact adopted quotas.
- To protect themselves from suits they could not possibly win, employers would adopt quotas, opponents of the measure say.
- Before that decision, they say, there was no evidence that business adopted quotas in hiring and promotion.
- "I am convinced it will have the effect of forcing businesses to adopt quotas in hiring and promotion," he wrote.
- While the committee never adopted formal quotas or goals, it used the city's 36 percent goal as a benchmark.
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