What's the difference between allotted and apportioned?

Allotted


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Allot

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After weeks of battling both in the press and in Albany’s back rooms, $300m was allotted in the state budget to fund pre-K in New York City.
  • (2) [The EC number of the toxin (EC 3.1.4.41) has been allotted by the Nomenclature Committee of IUB, but has not yet been published.]
  • (3) Participants in the study were 10,741 men aged 34-61 at the onset, that were allotted to a study group of 2,955 men (Group B) examined by standardized methods in 1967-'68 (Stage I), 1970-'71 (Stage II), 1974-'76 (Stage III) and 1979-'81 (Stage IV) and three control groups, Group C (2,744 men), Group A (2,755 men) and Group D (2,287 men) examined in Stage II, III and IV respectively.
  • (4) I don’t think, at least in Iowa, her almost celebrity status over some of the others gets her any type of advantage.” Palin confused many onlookers with the directions taken in her remarks, which featured a freewheeling preamble of almost 10 minutes – half the time allotted to each speaker.
  • (5) Three appointments, 1 week apart, were alloted for treatment.
  • (6) These properties distinguish it from those other beta-lactamases that have been allotted to classes on the basis of their amino sequences.
  • (7) Material is allotted them not by whether it is true but by whether they might like it.
  • (8) Newly hatched chicks were allotted to five different climatic treatment groups (28 to 32, 32 to 34, 34 to 35, 35 to 37, and 37 to 40 C) for 2 days after hatch during which feed and water were withheld.
  • (9) David Spilsbury Birmingham • One view of the future: we are to leave Nato, abandon our nuclear deterrent, cultivate our allotments and become a new potato republic on the northern fringe of Europe.
  • (10) The batch of 147 undergraduate medical students (Group I) were trained in maternal and child health (MCH) by allotting them families study wherein either pregnant lady or a new born child was present.
  • (11) A total of 600 Bosbek day-old broiler chicks (Akropong Farms, Kumasi, Ghana) were randomly allotted to six dietary treatments containing 0, 5, 7.5, 10, 12.5, and 15% palm kernel cake (PKC), respectively.
  • (12) Can it focus on a war when it’s busy allotting prime lands to its officer cadre?
  • (13) Reportedly, her teleprompter conked out, inadvertently taking thousands of fresh “Obama Teleprompter” jokes with it, so she ad libbed, ultimately going 10 minutes over her allotted time while hurling out rewarmed zingers and bewildering anecdotes.
  • (14) However, there are also strains from cattle which cannot be allotted to one of the known host-specific varieties and also strains which belong to the host-specific variety hominis.
  • (15) A total of 212 patients with acute sports injuries were allotted at random to treatment with 20 mg tenoxicam daily, 20 piroxicam daily or a placebo for ten days.
  • (16) It is also confirmed that magnitude of permeability-area (PA) products for permeation of purified sucrose or mannitol into brain varies inversely with the length of time allotted for tracer circulation in the bloodstream.
  • (17) Angus (A), A X Hereford (H) and Tarentaise X HA heifers (n = 103) were stratified by age and weight within breed-type and location of birth and allotted randomly to the following treatments: 1) heifers exposed to mature bulls (T1; n = 52) or 2) heifers isolated from bulls (T2; n = 51).
  • (18) In the allotted interview space, a meeting room swathed in white fabric to cover the swirly carpet, the atmosphere was cheerful, but tense.
  • (19) Bulls or testosterone-treated cows (TTC) were introduced to cows, randomly allotted to one of four groups, within 72 h postpartum.
  • (20) Having named his cabinet, the new prime minister spends Sunday afternoon tending to his allotment.

Apportioned


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Apportion

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some of the 1st macro-level actions of the Castro government entailed reducing the prices of medicine along with apportioning their importation, distribution, and production; reorganizing the national health system (MINSAP); and nationalizing all private health facilities and merging them with MINSAP.
  • (2) The proceedings, which are expected to last until the fall, will apportion blame for the 2010 disaster between the oil company and its partners on the blown-out well, and assess fines based on how much crude oil actually flowed into the Gulf of Mexico.
  • (3) But while (as leaked emails showed ) the parties in the plan went back and forth over how to apportion the spoils, nothing was forthcoming.
  • (4) Emerging economies want the rules to be overhauled so that multinational companies are required to apportion their taxable profits according to factors such as where in the world sales are made, where the workforce is located and where capital is invested.
  • (5) Tumourigenicity studies of the source apportioned ambient organic matter provided the relative tumour potencies of two ambient samples of different source composition.
  • (6) We describe a general method of apportioning the separate effects of sleep, or other factors, upon the central respiratory controller, the respiratory mechanical pump, and the metabolic rate, in determining the total observed increase in end-tidal CO2.
  • (7) After 90 minutes of unremitting toil, perspiration and scant regard for loftier reputations, blame was starting to be apportioned.
  • (8) The doping culture that is polluting Russian sport stems from the Russian government and has now been uncovered in not one but two independent reports commissioned by the Wada.” Craven is, of course, right to apportion blame where it is due – with the Russian state.
  • (9) The question, therefore, is not whether such costs should be met, but how they can be met in a way that best maintains and preserves the health of the needy while apportioning this cost equitably over all sectors of the American economy.
  • (10) Because all of the TEAM Studies measured outdoor concentrations near the homes of the participants, it is possible to apportion the risks between outdoor and indoor sources.
  • (11) As Silva explained it, the Iowa Democratic party’s formula for apportioning delegates left no method of dealing with one delegate in the precinct.
  • (12) Regression of principal components scores (derived from the mesiodistal diameters) on the sum of all diameters (used here as a measure of overall tooth mass) confirms a basic ethnic difference between black and white odontometrics: significantly more of the tooth mass is apportioned to the cheek teeth (premolars, molars) in blacks than whites.
  • (13) Mortality was apportioned into four phases of development: larva, pupariation, and early and late pupae.
  • (14) That would allow the officials to focus first on agreeing on a common methodology for apportioning taxable profits.
  • (15) This documentary wonders if the blame was correctly apportioned.
  • (16) The Obama administration, while regretting the death toll, reserved judgment on apportioning blame.
  • (17) The metabolic apport of prokaryotic symbionts in the fat body of Blattella germanica was investigated by histoenzymatic methods, using chlortetracycline-treated and normal strains.
  • (18) Allocation strategies in which a limited resource is apportioned among alternative activities are applicable to diverse structural, genetical and behavioral topics, including male versus female investments.
  • (19) But to get to that point, both main parties will have to find a way out of the current stalemate in which they appear to be more focused on apportioning blame than on finding solutions.
  • (20) After the report’s release, Teague said it was not up to the inquiry to apportion blame.

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