(v. t.) To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.
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.
Reapportion
Definition:
(v. t.) To apportion again.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cose data obtained in 16 of these laboratories were used as the basis of a discussion on the identification of indirect expenses and the method of reapportioning these costs to the diagnostic testing sections of the laboratories.
(2) In the C laminae of the LGN, retinogeniculate terminals also reapportion their synaptic contacts.
(3) Led by economist Andrew Dilnot, the commission is charged with producing a workable settlement of the vexed issue of how social care costs, not least care home fees now typically in excess of £500 a week, should be reapportioned between the state and the citizen.
(4) Government funds for medical and related research should be reapportioned in relation to responsibilities (paragraph 12b).