How to Use quid pro quo in a Sentence

quid pro quo

noun

• Mr Trump explained the quid pro quo at the heart of the show.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• This is quite clear quid pro quo, and doesn’t sound like there is much doubt.
  — Tyler Kingkade, Town & Country, 13 Mar. 2019
• Perlman takes the view there was no quid pro quo in the Ukraine affair.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2019
• After all, the court said, that scheme doesn’t involve a quid pro quo.
  — Michael Linhorst, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2022
• And at the same time, the court has steadily restricted what counts as quid pro quo.
  — Michael Linhorst, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2022
• In Ankara, officials said the waiver wasn’t part of a quid pro quo.
  — David Gauthier-Villars, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2018
• The quid pro quo is the downside risk gets magnified in the same manner.
  — Michael Szalontay, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• The quid pro quo for strict rules was a politicised process of enforcement.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2020
• The Court requires a specific kind of quid pro quo that didn’t take place.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2020
• Blakely told the jury that the arrangement wasn’t a quid pro quo.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 29 July 2021
• But both ideas would be expressed in Latin by quid pro quo—or so scholars think.
  — Anthony Grant, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2019
• And discussing quid pro quo, or extortion or bribery, leads right to Joe and Hunter Biden.
  — John Kass, Twin Cities, 17 Dec. 2019
• The charge, if true, would undermine Trump’s core defense that there was no quid pro quo.
  — cleveland, 27 Jan. 2020
• There was no quid pro quo, no bribery, no extortion, no crime, and no abuse of power.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 19 Dec. 2019
• The statement that Rudy was demanding was a quid pro quo for a White House visit, there was no doubt about that.
  — The Washington Post, oregonlive, 13 Oct. 2019
• Republicans have argued there was no quid pro quo in the Trump phone call.
  — John Kass, Twin Cities, 28 Nov. 2019
• When Tehran stepped up, the Mullahs surely insisted on a quid pro quo.
  — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Most Nicaraguans appeared content or resigned to the quid pro quo—until now.
  — Juan Montes, WSJ, 6 June 2018
• Gildea said there was no quid pro quo involved in the tribe’s support of Derby’s application to the state.
  — Pat Eaton-Robb, courant.com, 31 Mar. 2022
• For decades, a quid pro quo of sorts kept both sides relatively content.
  — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2020
• Many of the values Jesus taught didn’t include the quid pro quo of successful business.
  — WSJ, 26 Oct. 2022
• And the apparent Saudi agreement to increase oil output to help bring down global prices was part of the quid pro quo.
  — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
• Another colleague could claim, for example, that a quid pro quo is the only way to get ahead.
  — Deborah Acosta, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2021
• But some of the other people around the table were shocked to hear what could be interpreted as a direct quid pro quo.
  — Esther Wang, Curbed, 17 Dec. 2021
• Russia has apparently hinted of a quid pro quo with the startup of Nord Stream 2.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
• The money Hamilton gave the council members was a gratuity and not quid pro quo bribes as required by the law, the judges wrote in their opinion.
  — Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2022
• This quid pro quo approach led Heather to explore sponsored egg freezing.
  — Megan Carnegie, Wired, 1 Dec. 2021
• The committee appeared to be asking whether there was any quid pro quo in the deal to provide the free HIV medication.
  — Christopher Rowland, Washington Post, 27 June 2019
• The vote was scheduled, despite reports suggesting Bolton could confirm the Ukraine quid pro quo.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 18 June 2020
• But the Bolton revelation will test Trump’s lawyers’ plan to defend him by arguing there was no quid pro quo.
  — Tessa Berenson, Time, 28 Jan. 2020

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