apportion

The coroner said the jury cannot find anyone at fault or apportion blame in their inquest verdict.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

She taught them about the matching system and how to apportion their savings to get the most out of it.

From MarketWatch ● May 14, 2026

But it’s hard if not impossible to prove that social media caused any given individual’s troubles, let alone apportion liability among the platforms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

Those on both sides say they are willing to continue trying to reach a deal on how to apportion cutbacks in water use after 2026, when the current rules expire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024

Rationales for still other ways to apportion the money are possible.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

In Washington, a bipartisan commission apportions the congressional and legislative districts.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 2023

The Colorado River Compact, signed a century ago last fall, only apportions water between two basins, the Upper Basin and the Lower Basin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2023

On Tuesday, the Senate approved a $1 trillion infrastructure package in a 69-30 vote that apportions billions of dollars for building new transmission lines, public transit and electric-car charging stations.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2021

The second, federalism, apportions power between two levels of government: national and subnational.

From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021

Mqhayi then began to recite his well-known poem in which he apportions the stars in the heavens to the various nations of the world.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

The buildings management said any historic costs that are "properly recoverable" through service or heat charges would need to be reviewed and apportioned before individual charges could be confirmed.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Any judgments received could be apportioned among consumers, with their respective share of damages added to their annual tax bill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Because of that distrust, the founders carefully apportioned responsibility over the “militia” — today’s National Guard — between the federal government and the states.

From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2025

There have been persistent disagreements about how triggers for water cutbacks should be determined, and how the reductions should be apportioned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2024

It was a big meal for France but it seemed very carefully apportioned after Spain.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

He shows her ideas taking shape at desks where classifications opened or foreclosed futures, within organizations charged with apportioning the remnants of an inheritance among the living.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Without apportioning blame, the head of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, warned of the safety risks of such attacks.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2024

The upcoming negotiations will also involve questions about how the current system of managing dams and apportioning water can be revamped to adapt to climate change.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2023

She said the apology was "for blaming my husband, apportioning 50% blame to himself for causing his own death and for a very poor investigation that in fact seemed to favour the driver".

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2022

When it came to apportioning work on an aptitude basis, the smaller girls were assigned to dust the legs and lower shelves of furniture; the older girls to dust table tops and upper shelves.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey