What's the difference between apportioning and appropriating?

Apportioning


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) 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.

Appropriating


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Appropriate

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
  • (2) "As the investigation remains live and in order to preserve the integrity of that investigation, it would not be appropriate to offer further comment."
  • (3) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
  • (4) Throughout the period of rehabilitation, the frequent changes of a patient's condition may require a process of ongoing evaluation and appropriate adjustments in the physical therapy program.
  • (5) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.
  • (6) Brief treadmill exercise tests showed appropriate rate response to increased walking speed and gradient.
  • (7) This mode of treatment remains appropriate for cases where antibiotics are ineffective and surgery impracticable.
  • (8) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
  • (9) Current recommendations regarding contraception in patients with diabetes are not appropriate for the adolescent population and therefore tend to support this phenomenon rather than relieve it.
  • (10) Multiple operations were done in 7 patients prior to the appropriate diagnosis and treatment.
  • (11) The compounds 1-3 in reaction with nicotine aldehyde or p-chlorobenzaldehyde were transformed into appropriate anilides of 2,3-epoxypropionic acid 4-9.
  • (12) The use of fresh semen is possible, since results of appropriate cultures could be available and treatment instituted before clinical disease occurs.
  • (13) A programme is described in which indigenous personnel are trained to provide culturally appropriate rehabilitation services for islanders of the Pacific Basin.
  • (14) The morbidity is well known and if properly anticipated can be reduced to a minimum by judicious use of antibacterial agents and early surgical intervention when appropriate.
  • (15) Rats were injected subcutaneously with 10 ml of air into the dorsal skin to make an air-pouch and with 2 ml of antiserum at an appropriate dilution for passive sensitization, and then 5 ml of air was removed.
  • (16) The return of NE to normal levels after one month is consistent with the observation that LH-lesioned rats are by one month postlesion no longer hypermetabolic, but display levels of heat production appropriate to the reduced body weight they then maintain.
  • (17) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.
  • (18) Provided that adequate reflection is given and the appropriate moment chosen, it is well tolerated and provides all the necessary information.
  • (19) A careful history, a thorough physical examination, and an appropriate selection of tests will identify these patients.
  • (20) The data show that as much as a 9% difference from the correct activity can be observed for these radionuclides, even when the ampoule reference source gives the appropriate reading.

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