How To Use Apportion In A Sentence

The investigation into the air crash would inevitably apportion blame to certain members of the crew.
At present the apportionment is as follows: Church extension, 10 per cent; annual conferences, 36 per cent; and the financial Religious Bodies: 1906
The language is necessarily tortured in describing the 18,225 electronic scratch-ticket machines that would be apportioned according to a formula in the initiative.
As to the money raised by local subscription, no definite apportionment has yet been made but we understand that Woodhouse will receive a good round sum.
Tim Holden won his last race with 51 percent in a newly reapportioned district against another incumbent.

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The power to apportion responsibility under the Law Reform Act 1945 afforded a far more appropriate tool for doing justice than the blunt instrument of turpitude.
Gene trees in which the observed substitutions were apportioned to the various branches of the tree by phylogenetic algorithms provided the inferred substitutions on each green or nongreen branch.
He had nothing to tell them regarding the preciousness of water and the apportionment of supplies... given they were in their sane minds. HAMMERFALL
In the same way, we cannot say which of the heatwaves were man-made and which were natural, but we can apportion blame for the change in risk.
My Lord, can I then much more briefly deal with two other matters: apportionment of costs and leave to appeal?
It's not easy to apportion blame when a marriage breaks up.
In the apportionment, or representation clause, the redemptioner and the apprentice counts each as a man, whereas five slaves are enumerated as only three free men. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
It was also open to the Revenue to apportion the tax among several beneficiaries according to any method they thought fit.
A certain amount is apportioned to each pastoral charge to be raised annually for this work. Religious Bodies: 1906
An unfair apportionment limited upcountry representation in the legislature and gave the parishes more power than their population warranted.
The practical significance of apportionment is that the next election results may differ because of it.
Storage overheads were apportioned to materials, in proportion to their value, then the workshop overheads were applied to the work accounts according to an hourly rate.
Due to the lack of witnesses, it is difficult to apportion the blame for the accident right now.
It was also open to the Revenue to apportion the tax among several beneficiaries according to any method they thought fit.
There are five classes of temples, designated as follows: pycnostyle, with the columns close together; systyle, with the intercolumniations a little wider; diastyle, more open still; araeostyle, farther apart than they ought to be; eustyle, with the intervals apportioned just right. The Ten Books on Architecture
But a capitation could be apportioned by population quite easily; if it applied to every person (citizen or not, all levels of income) with no exceptions, it would in fact by definition already be apportioned. The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Census of Enumeration”
Difficulty of assessment or apportionment should not dictate an unjust or inappropriate costs order.
Due to the lack of witnesses, it is difficult to apportion the blame for the accident right now.
The Holtham Commission, one of the most thorough reviews of the distribution of public expenditure in the UK, concluded that if the formula used to apportion public expenditure in England were applied to the devolved administrations, Wales would receive nearly £400m more per annum, and Scotland around £4bn less, compared with the apportionments dictated by a creaking Barnett formula. We are still a nation divided by shameful economic injustice | The big issue
It seemed to Tess that Pitts's mission in life was to reapportion the planet's stuff, buying it from one person and selling it to another. IN A STRANGE CITY
Inevitably we described some mistakes, but it's not an apportionment of blame.
Rightly or wrongly, medical conditions concerning self-image are more commonly associated with girls, and much of the blame is apportioned to glossy magazines showing images of super-thin supermodels.
My view is that the cyclist was primarily responsible for this collision and I apportion his blame at 60%.
He apportioned the members of the team their various tasks.
The investigation into the air crash would inevitably apportion blame to certain members of the crew.
When we know how much is profit, then we can apportion the money among/between us.
Given the accelerating pace of cultural change in this last period this seems a niggardly apportionment.
The value of shared facilities or labour must be apportioned strictly in proportion to relative benefits received.
Once you have decided that you have permission to buy and once you get permission to apportion, that is to say, to divvy up the goods, then you can implement it, but it takes a long time, and it is complicated. Undefined
Two remaining segments, along the Sumpul and Torola rivers, were apportioned between the two countries.
So if the lessor be evicted [foreclosed??] of a part of the land demised, by a stranger on title paramount, it operates as a suspension of the rent pro Canto, and the rent is apportioned and payable only in respect of the residue. lb. WordPress.com News
Once, however, it is appreciated that this fifth paragraph is dealing with claims which are within the limit of indemnity, it must have a general application and cannot be restricted to questions of apportionment of costs.
Are not sections 259 and 261 only concerned with apportionment of liability between ships, or shipowners?
In fact we should mention the proportional representation work by him in the 1880s when he considered apportionment of representatives to districts.
It is a product of revolutionary reform, adopted in 1967 by a newly reapportioned Legislature elected under a reapportionment plan imposed by order of the federal court.
It seemed to Tess that Pitts's mission in life was to reapportion the planet's stuff, buying it from one person and selling it to another. IN A STRANGE CITY
Then the bear shifted, almost as if it knew that Madeline was uncomfortable, reapportioning its bulk so that her ribs weren't crushed.
I keep thinking about the apportionment of blame between the innocent defender and the guilty attacker.
Unfortunately, the Dem Party State Committee controls a number of delegates, and I'm not sure how the regional apportionments work, so it's possible that Obama might not gain many net delegates with his victory. Archive 2008-02-01
The success was divided and I am asked to apportion the 14 hours that are shown on the Bill of Costs.
Frequent formation changes, shaped by both the enemy and terrain, forced the commander to constantly reapportion fires to facilitate security.
Where the buyers succeeded in defeating part of the third party claim, an exercise of apportionment of the adverse consequences between the valid and invalid parts of the claim could be required.
(Under the Constitution, direct taxes must be "apportioned", which essentially is an administrative nightmare to do on a consistent, ongoing basis. WHY TAX MOLESTERS FEAR RON PAUL
Organizational performance inevitably suffers, and when this decline is no longer deniable, blame is apportioned among a few unfortunate scapegoats.
No fault divorce, as was promoted, means that fault is not apportioned to the various parties in many aspects of the court decision, which in many situations would be very unbalanced with an innocent spouse suffering greatly.
The part of this clause relating to the mode of apportionment of representatives among the several States was changed by the Fourteenth Amendment, and as to taxes on incomes without apportionment, by the Sixteenth Amendment.
Chap. 397. 389 purpose of providing for the payment of the bonds issued under the authority of this act, and the treasurer and re - ceiver general shall apportion thereto from year to year an amount sufficient with the accumulations of said fund to extinguish at maturity the debt incurred by the issue of said bonds. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
In these cases, the companies' revenues were divided in half and apportioned between the two countries.
It is, in my opinion, a mistake in law to segregate those two forms of liability - that is tort and contract - and arrive at separate and differing apportionments of liability in respect of them.
And, because she was with him, Kolchinsky would apportion the blame. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
Reforming Senate apportionment is impossible until the current constitution is scrapped by our Chinese overlords. Matthew Yglesias » Ungovernable America
Walls that slide on tracks, platform floors, and pivoting panels are some of the devices used to reapportion the space while maintaining its flexible nature.
He should not be required to share his award of costs by apportionment, whether by agreement or by further order of the court.
The inquiry report doesn't pull any punches in apportioning blame.
Anyhow, it was their legacy to apportion as they saw fit, since it was they who had led the two crucial wars that formed the bookends, as it were, to this episode; and they never admired the D'Annunzio-style "grande geste" of a Moshe Dayan (also Begin's Foreign Minister at the time), Begin, or an Ariel Sharon. Robert Eisenman: If Menachem Begin Wore Swim Trunks, He Would Never Have Withdrawn from Sinai (and Castro's Recent Comments)
to apportion expenses among the three men.
True, he is given to a certain stoutness and fullness of frame, but it has been remarked that this well-apportioned girth rather adds to the majestic dignity of his bearing.
The inquiry report doesn't pull any punches in apportioning blame.
Crime makes an easy political issue, and there could well be a contest for who can offer the toughest line, and who most acerbically will apportion blame.
And the whole amount of the sums so to be assessed upon dwelling houses and slaves within each state respectively, shall be deducted from the sum hereby apportioned each state, and the remainder of the sum shall be assessed upon the lands within such state according to the valuations to be made pursuant to the act aforesaid, and at such per centum as will be sufficient to produce the said remainder ... The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax?
The major reason was the potential loss of House seats during apportionment.
This paper firstly discusses those four affreightment businesses' concepts and characteristics, and emphasizes the question of apportionment of expenses so as to convenience the research later.
Although only labor and capital participate in the process, the income therefrom must be apportioned into three shares: as wages to labor, as interest to capital, and as rent to the landowner.
A key question for donors and public-health leaders is how to apportion existing AIDS funding to implement new prevention tools while continuing to treat patients most in need of life-saving drugs. Curbing AIDS Set As a U.S. Priority
I'm struck by the absence of irony in among those who exalt our independence at the same time they work to apportion its benefits. Dr. Peggy Drexler: Once Again, a Time for Reflection
Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States, which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, _three fifths of all other persons_. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
Sims transformed the American political scene by requiring states to reapportion their legislatures on the basis of ‘one person, one vote.’
Even as a revised commission lineup is being readied for early November, the question of how power is apportioned among the Commission, the Parliament, and national governments is more muddied than ever.
The function of the coroner's inquest is to establish the cause of death, not to apportion blame.
That basic services such as water are part of a busket of services which have to be provided for through the equitable share revenue that each municipality receives from national revenue apportionment. STATEMENT ON THE WATER CRISIS AT ETHEKWINI MUNICIPALITY
But since the only requirement of apportionment is that a direct tax or capitation can only to three-fifths of a slave, and since we no longer have slaves, it no longer has any effect. The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax?
The rest of the delegates are apportioned by congressional districts, with the winner of each district getting three delegates.
We haven't the time to be philosophers either, and it's not my job to apportion blame for the way people are. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
The law did not provide for the apportionment of the tax, and, if it was a direct tax, the law was confessedly unwarranted by the Constitution.
It seems to me that the focus of attention on this application should be to that; namely, that the Secretary of State will normally be entitled to the whole of his costs and should not be required to share them by apportionment.
At the last paragraph on the page he describes the effect of the apportionments, and that is that.
What we have in our society is that we like to apportion blame to those in positions of leadership.
It is just three weeks since the nation's political arguments were about micromatters such as apportioning blame for an economic slowdown that had not yet produced even one quarter of contraction. War, The Health Of The State
This latter had necessitated the payment of numerous dollars, to say nothing of a demonstration in force -- Dick Humphries squinting along the sights of a Winchester while Tommy apportioned their wages among them at his own appraisement. SIWASH
You can’t use statistical models for the Census because of it’s role in apportioning political power and federal funding. Matthew Yglesias » Census Conspiracies Strike Back
The quest for truth, North insists, is not about apportioning blame or naming scapegoats, but the prevention of future tragedies.
It is not easy for the Committee of Inquiry to apportion blame in such a complicated case.
There are five classes of temples, designated as follows: pycnostyle, with the columns close together; systyle, with the intercolumniations a little wider; diastyle, more open still; araeostyle, farther apart than they ought to be; eustyle, with the intervals apportioned just right. The Ten Books on Architecture
To divide and distribute proportionally; apportion.
While communities and officials will honor long-standing hereditary rights to areas of land traditionally claimed by a given family, misused or abandoned land may be reapportioned for better use.
The draft arts master plan has not yet gone into funding or the apportionment of costs between the private and public sectors.
The Supreme Court played a key role in immigration reform with its rulings that congressional districts must be reapportioned.
Another issue that has caused problems between Congress and the White House has been gerrymandering and the mal-apportionment of Congressional constituencies.
The outcome will not only determine how governmental power will be apportioned over the next four years, but will also decide the makeup of the special committee that is supposed to rewrite the flawed Constitution.
Due to the lack of witnesses, it is difficult to apportion the blame for the accident right now.
Since rural voters in industrialized countries rely more heavily on fossil fuels than urban voters, our prediction is that malapportioned political systems will have lower gasoline taxes, and less commitment to climate change amelioration, than systems with equitable representation of constituents. Matthew Yglesias » Malapportionment Is Destroying the Planet
Thus emerged the concept of an "apportioned" tax, or as it is called when applied to the problem of property valuation, the "unit rule," which till 1938 afforded the Court its chief reliance in the field of The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952
The blame for some of this must be apportioned to the frequency of the bus service but no doubt had this road been in the vicinity of the racecourse it would have been repaired or even resurfaced by now.
As for the superdelgates, the notion of apportioning them based on various formulae just won't work. News Orgs: Obama Ahead Of Hillary In Pledged Delegates, Catching Her In Super-Delegates
Court costs were equally apportioned between them.
The investigation into the air crash would inevitably apportion blame to certain members of the crew.
She will have been long familiar with the idea of apportioning incomes. Vocational Guidance for Girls
Since there are no longer any slaves in the United States, apportionment is achieved if a tax applies to all free persons, excluding Indians not taxed. The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax?
It is difficult to apportion blame since both sides seem to be equally culpable.
They apportioned the land among members of the family.
Should the road surface adhesion change when taking a corner, the efficient four-wheel drive system cuts in imperceptibly to apportion power according to grip and ensure that all remains under control.
The reapportionment of 2002 designed congressional districts that favored incumbents of both parties, leaving virtually no room for challengers to be elected.
Last week, the more graceful term "petrolic resource reapportionment" began to appear in prominent Venezuela media, along with "amicable annexation. War By Any Other Name
As only the former may vote in federal elections, the apportionment of seats in Congress should be done on the basis of the number of citizens in each state.
It is not easy for the Committee of Inquiry to apportion blame in such a complicated case.
The letter attempts to apportion responsibility and blame between our council and the Government.
Apportioned Share of Common Area includes Lift Lobby, Staircase, Entrance Hall, T. B. E. Room, F. S. Pump Room, Water Meter Room, Refuse Room, Transformer Room, Switch Room and other facilities.
This became a definite go when he lost all the legislative races, and used reapportionment as the excuse.
There are five classes of temples, designated as follows: pycnostyle, with the columns close together; systyle, with the intercolumniations a little wider; diastyle, more open still; araeostyle, farther apart than they ought to be; eustyle, with the intervals apportioned just right. The Ten Books on Architecture
We haven't the time to be philosophers either, and it's not my job to apportion blame for the way people are. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
Note, however, how these gains were reapportioned to the stable asset classes which more than doubled in the right hand case above.
Also, while Congress can impose a national capitation or property tax [ "direct tax"], to do so it must be "apportioned" which in point of fact means that the tax cannot be imposed. California Progress Report
It is not an act of revenge or even an exercise in apportioning blame. 11/24/2005
The value of shared facilities or labour must be apportioned strictly in proportion to relative benefits received.
The federal government apportioned money among the states.
The management of irony and sincerity - their proper apportioning, their containment and release - is the vexed issue of this novel, as of so many contemporary works.
We're supposed to, by Constitution, apportion or redistrict every 10 years.
Redistricting exists for the purpose of reapportioning voters among political districts to account for population shifts.
One of the greatest hindrances to the success of our schools is the inability, or the unwillingness, of some patrons to supply their children with text-books, and the disposition on the part of some District School Committees not to teach out the whole term apportioned in one continued term, but to stop the schools whenever the children are needed for farm work, and teach out the balance of their apportionment at another time. Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina, for the Scholastic Years 1898-'99 to 1899-1900
After the next census is taken, Congress would reapportion seats based on population and revert to 435 as established in 1911.
Matrilineal bridges often factored in the clustering of families in particular coves and harbors; and matrilocal or uxorilocal residence patterns played a crucial role in community formation, as many couples established themselves on land already occupied by the wife or apportioned from or adjacent to the family property of the wife. Gutenber-e Help Page
Mark N.: But a capitation could be apportioned by population quite easily; if it applied to every person (citizen or not, all levels of income) with no exceptions, it would in fact by definition already be apportioned. The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Census of Enumeration”
Yes, lots of different kind of apportionments can work and be fair, but our current one seems to reflect pretty well the mix of what we have to deal with. Another Green World
Further in the event of such pooling or combining, any payment made in accordance with paragraph 3 hereof shall be apportioned in the same way as royalties.
Congressional seats are reapportioned on the basis of census data
There are five classes of temples, designated as follows: pycnostyle, with the columns close together; systyle, with the intercolumniations a little wider; diastyle, more open still; araeostyle, farther apart than they ought to be; eustyle, with the intervals apportioned just right. The Ten Books on Architecture
In our submission, with respect, the approach taken by the Court of Appeal in relation to contributory negligence really gives lip service to the principle that apportionments should not readily be set aside.
The investigation into the air crash would inevitably apportion blame to certain members of the crew.
Even the finding that had been available to the town had been apportioned to arrive over a two year period.
This apportions the body's food supplies rather as a grudging quartermaster distributes equipment in a forces barracks. Fats, Nutrition and Health
The census this year means that we must reapportion, redistrict both the U.S. What's At Stake In 2010 Governors' Races
If, however, the 60 deputies had been apportioned to the various constituencies on the basis of ordinary mathematical equality, the results would have been as follows.
The man, who felt the Court had denied the sovereign right of a state to choose its system of representation, was determined to restore state control of apportionment.
His district is going through reapportionment.
The right-to-die debate sidesteps the real issue: A need to reapportion care
And, because she was with him, Kolchinsky would apportion the blame. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
Most of that, we think, is apportioned to assaults, particularly linked to alcohol.
Anyway, a capitation is unconstitutional if it is not apportioned among the states according to the census. The Volokh Conspiracy » 13 States File Suit Against Health Care Reform
Due to the lack of witnesses, it is difficult to apportion the blame for the accident right now.
The first proposed amendment dealt with Congressional apportionment, while the second addressed Congressional compensation.
But he apportioned a share of the blame to the bank itself.
Yeah, I guess there'll have to be a reapportioning of duties, as all the old ones went the way of the city.
It is therefore difficult to apportion blame or credit to him, as the infelicities of the production and the interpretations of the characters should perhaps more properly be ascribed to Sir Peter.
Not long afterward, the idea of apportioning the river by interstate compact was proposed by a rancher and attorney from Greeley, Colorado, who had been fairly steeped in water law for his entire legal career and also had the ear of his close friend, Colorado governor Oliver Shoup. Colossus
The programme gives the facts but does not apportion blame.
They complain that the best walkie-talkies are apportioned to the staff who come more in contact with the officers than those always on the move.
One issue: the 1922 accord was signed during one of the wettest years on record in the Southwest, setting apportionments that water managers say now appear too generous given the region's frequency of drought. Wet Winter Can't Slake West's Thirst
However, if blame is to be apportioned to these groups and their glamorising of violence, surely much of it must lie at the door of the record companies who issue their rantings, the construction of which is enough to make a stoker blanch.
In today's litigious society, we need to have someone to blame, to apportion accountability.
The investigation into the air crash would inevitably apportion blame to certain members of the crew.
The contract does not specify how the financing will be shared but merely apportions the amount of work, which he fears may be disproportionately large for the Bulgarian enterprise if they get the less skilled procedures.
Enbridge has "apportioned" capacity on much of its crude network, which means it has restricted how much companies can ship on its pipe. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
When we know how much is profit, then we can apportion the money among/between us.
-- Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States, which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, _three-fifths of all other persons_. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
Southern and Western states are growing so much faster than the rest of the country that several are expected to grab House seats from the Northeast and Midwest when Congress is reapportioned in 2010.
ARTICLE 1, Sect. 2, provides -- "Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States, which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, _three-fifths of all other persons_. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
The higher the eventual rank, the more likely was blame to be similarly apportioned.
Half of the seats are apportioned to winning parties and half to candidates elected from so-called single-mandate constituencies.
It is clear that there must now be a reapportioning of power.
The outgoings shall, if necessary, be apportioned between the Vendor and Purchaser and paid on completion.
There are five classes of temples, designated as follows: pycnostyle, with the columns close together; systyle, with the intercolumniations a little wider; diastyle, more open still; araeostyle, farther apart than they ought to be; eustyle, with the intervals apportioned just right. The Ten Books on Architecture
The Fifth Circuit test requires assessment of 1) the nature of the plaintiff’s injury; 2) the directness or indirectness of the asserted injury; 3) the proximity or remoteness of the party to the alleged injurious conduct; 4) the speculativeness of the damages claim; and 5) the risk of duplicative damages or complexity in apportioning damages. Lanham Act doesn't cover competition with customers
Compared with the prior studies, the present analysis benefits from a more distributed apportionment of demographic and risk variables in defining significant differences in disease frequency.
Organizational performance inevitably suffers, and when this decline is no longer deniable, blame is apportioned among a few unfortunate scapegoats.
The inquiry report doesn't pull any punches in apportioning blame.
Census numbers are also used to draw political districts and apportion seats in Congress.
It may be silly to think there was once a golden age - Cardus after all mourned the pre-1914 game even as he was writing about Bradman and Hammond and Woolley and Headley and all the rest - but skills once considered integral to the game are disappearing and part of the blame for that must be apportioned to the proliferation of one-day cricket. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
I don't wish to apportion blame among you / to any of you.
The ratio of financing apportionment and optimal fare discount are obtained from cost - benefit analysis.
By 1836, all states except South Carolina which had the Legislature apportion the vote used the unit rule. The Brewing Attempts To Game The Electoral College
In England, by the thirteenth century, the generous apportionment of dower to widows in aristocratic society was, it appears, often mirrored in town and countryside lower down the social scale.
He would like to deny that history which depicts Turks as assassins, or apportion blame to the Armenians.
The rest of the delegates are apportioned by congressional districts, with the winner of each district getting three delegates.
He said his division could not disengage from the country, redeploy, and retrain and refit within the time constraints specified in the war plans his division was apportioned against.
In the case of land, wealth and sovereignty, sharing can be understood best as sharing by division which involves the apportionment of goods between individuals.
Yet these are enumerated in the apportionment of representatives.
A successful gerrymanderer begins by assuming that his party has a certain amount of support statewide; he then apportions that support strategically among individual districts.
Besides, there are fasciae running all round under the cymatia on the jambs, and apportioned so as to be equal to three sevenths of a jamb, excluding the cymatium. The Ten Books on Architecture
Management's response: The Administrator concurred, stating that the OCFO will demonstrate that appropriations available to be spent in FY 2006 can be traced from appropriations, to apportionments, to allotments, to commitments, and to obligations. NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: June 2010 Archives
They apportioned the land among members of the family.
The hypothesis holds that current income is apportioned to consumption over a lifetime.
The darkest shadow over the river apportionments was cast by the belated realization that Arthur Powell Davis, in promising that the river would always provide enough water to satisfy all demands, had perpetrated a fraud. Colossus
No blame could be apportioned to the referee who was simply enforcing the rules but if the sin-bin rule had been available to the man in charge on that day all parties involved would have felt that justice prevailed.
The Fifth Circuit test requires assessment of 1) the nature of the plaintiff’s injury; 2) the directness or indirectness of the asserted injury; 3) the proximity or remoteness of the party to the alleged injurious conduct; 4) the speculativeness of the damages claim; and 5) the risk of duplicative damages or complexity in apportioning damages. Archive 2009-08-01
It's worth going back and reading or rereading the reasons Justice Frankfurter gave for opposing judicial reapportionment, back in 1962.
Due to the lack of witnesses(Sentence dictionary), it is difficult to apportion the blame for the accident right now.
All of the petitions in question called for the convening of a constitutional convention to propose amendments to deal with apportionment of state legislatures; that would be the limit of a convention's mandate.
Both defeats could have been apportioned to immaturity.
It would be necessary to communalize the railways, that the citizens might get food and work, and lastly, to prevent the waste of supplies; and to guard against the trusts of corn-speculators, like those to whom the Paris Commune of 1793 fell a prey, it would have to place in the hands of the City the work of stocking its warehouses with commodities, and apportioning the produce. The Conquest of Bread
The investigation into the air crash would inevitably apportion blame to certain members of the crew.
When we know how much is profit, then we can apportion the money among/between us.
Others did not seem to know about the second-round process where the votes that went to small parties that did not get seats would be reapportioned to the parties that did win.
It's not easy to apportion blame when a marriage breaks up.
Census data will be used to "apportion" Congressional seats to each state. Latest Articles
There may turn out to be some truth to this, but it's far too early to apportion blame.

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