(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.
Reassemble
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To assemble again.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, inhibition of microtubule reassembly did not alter either normal deformability or the ZAP-induced decrease in deformability.
(2) It can be dissociated from the spores using divalent metal chelators and will reassemble on the spores in the presence of calcium.
(3) The mechanism of this inhibition is unknown, but reassembly experiments indicate that the 2 types of tubulins cannot copolymerize.
(4) Since the enzyme preferentially digests relaxed DNAs, these results suggest that nucleosomal subunits of c-myc and c-fos chromatin are relaxed during the state of active transcription, and reassembled once their transcription is repressed.
(5) The addition of Mg2+ to the dialyzing solution resulted in the formation of short intermediate-sized filaments even at 4 degrees C. Further dialysis of the short intermediate-sized filaments against reassembly solution containing both NaCl and MgCl2 at 37 degrees C failed to elongate them into longer filaments, suggesting that annealing does not contribute to the elongation of neurofilaments.
(6) Ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid treatment could also be used to extract RsaA and yielded protein capable of reassembly.
(7) We determined the time course for reassembly, the ultrastructural characteristics of reassembled NFs, and the topographical disposition of NF protein subdomains within reassembled NFs using quantitative biochemical techniques, negative staining and immunoelectron microscopy.
(8) Particles reassembled from homologous or heterologous mixtures of the RNAs and coat proteins of the viruses have the density of the nucleoprotein particles used as the source of protein.
(9) The specimens were reassembled, brushed with an Endobrush, and reevaluated.
(10) For the compounds investigated the spectra contain enough information to unequivocally reassemble the original sequence.
(11) Some of these regions have been identified by reassembly of the total tryptic peptides of apo B-100 with bovine brain sphingomyelin, 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl phosphatidylcholine (POPC) and dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DPMC).
(12) The spinach small subunits were able to reassemble with the large subunit octamer of ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase from the cyanobacterium, Synechococcus ACMM 323, prepared as described previously (Andrews, T. J., and Ballment, B.
(13) The reassembled protein is also able to catalyze the oxidation of Fe(II).
(14) Although the 30S subunit was specifically destroyed by the heating process, both ribosomal particles were reassembled during recovery.
(15) It is suggested that the protein-associated lipid may be trapped between closely packed parallel aggregates of M13 coat protein and that the high local concentration of protein in a one-dimensional arrangement in lipid bilayers may be required for the fast reassembly of phage particles before release from an infected cell.
(16) The free segment reassembly fractured facial bones is but one additional technique gained from craniofacial surgery.
(17) In another case, PHA-receptor glycoproteins were purified by affinity chromatography and reassembled into PC-PS vesicles, using the same technique.
(18) The unfolding-refolding studies and role of substrate in reassembly were consistent with a mechanism involving at least two steps, possibly involving cis-trans isomerization of proline.
(19) The complexity of the structure of plasma high density lipoproteins (HDL) has invited numerous approaches which have been directed at the study of the intact particles, their apolipoproteins and reassembled complexes.
(20) Now the surgeon can reassemble the CEEA and perform the anastomosis.