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  • verb Present participle of apportion.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan

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Examples

  • For the rest of your questions, much of them appear to be based on a false premise: i.e. that I'm somehow interested in apportioning blame and or credit with respect to various policies of the two most recent Presidential administrations.

    Sound Politics: Gnashing of Democratic Teeth Begins 2006

  • It is not an act of revenge or even an exercise in apportioning blame.

    11/24/2005 2005

  • 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 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • 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 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • 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 2010

  • 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 Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • 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 Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • 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 2009

  • She will have been long familiar with the idea of apportioning incomes.

    Vocational Guidance for Girls Marguerite Stockman Dickson

  • 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 2007

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