59 collocations for apportion

On the question of apportioning representatives, it was found that there was a decided difference of opinion.

3. To apportion the taxes.

But however we choose to apportion the blame or at least the responsibility for the situation among the various Governments concerned, the main point and the main lesson of it all is to see that any such apportionment does not much matter!

The boys hesitated, and went into the water in a gingerly way, but did very well, the plunge once taken, and Jack apportioned to each of them his burden.

Be careful to apportion the quantity as nearly as possible to the seven days, and to stir the contents of the cask each day.

In compensation for the first-named impost he is apportioned his share of the common land of the village, and by the cultivation of this ekes out an existence which would be valueless if he were a teetotaller.

It was difficult to apportion the representation in the state legislature so as to balance evenly the districts in the west against the parishes in the east, and accordingly there was much dissatisfaction, especially in the west which did not get its fair share.

Secondly, how shall we apportion that sum between the two kinds of wine?

The fundamental use that money serves is to apportion one's income conveniently as it accrues and as it is spent.

The excess would have been avoided had the governor of Tennessee apportioned his requisition to each county or regiment, so as to make the proper number.

Sir William Dolben then proposed to apportion five men to every three tons in every ship under one hundred and fifty tons burden, which had the space of five feet between the decks, and three men to two tons in every vessel beyond one hundred and fifty tons burden, which had equal accommodation in point of height between the decks.

In many states he apportions the state school money.

When, therefore, he made his call for 75,000 militia to defend the Union, he apportioned the number among all the states, slave and free, north and south, east and west, according to their population.

On the local superintendents appointed by the county councils is devolved the duty of apportioning the legislative grant among the school sections within the county, of inspecting the schools, and reporting upon them to the chief superintendent.

You begin by saying that he is "by no means the worst offender," and, so far, I am inclined to agree, though as there has been no proper trial of anyone it is impossible to apportion their guilt; but then you say "his brutality is unmistakable," "his abject and unsoldierlike cowardice is apparent, he has called an unarmed crowd of men and childrenmostly holiday makersa rebel army."

People talked of the faulty division of wealth; but it was madness to dream of an Utopia, where there would be no more masters but only so many brothers, equal workers and sharers, who would apportion happiness among themselves like a birthday-cake.

As she drove from her house to the hospital she arranged how she would apportion the household in case of a prolonged illness, where she would put the nurses.

They did not hesitate to revise certain taxes, and when they were engaged upon the subject of collecting of them, they energetically stood out for the establishment of a unique, classified body of receivers-royal, and demanded the formation of all the provinces into districts of estates, voting and apportioning their imposts every year, as in the cases of Languedoc, Normandy, and Dauphiny.

He apportions his land to different crops after this ratio: Wheat, 120 acres; oats, 80; rye-grass and clover, 50; roots, 60.

Several days were needed to apportion the loads and arrange for the several divisions in which it was necessary that so large a party should attempt the long wilderness march, through a country where there was not much food for man or beast, and where it was always possible to run into a district in which fatal cattle or horse diseases were prevalent.

The Bey sent for Eaton; he had apportioned his loss among his friends, and it fell to the United States to furnish ten thousand stand without delay.

The province was divided into eight counties, among which were apportioned twenty-six members.

And from his purse a gold-piece the pastor drew forth;for the silver He had some hours before already in charity given, When he in mournful groups had seen the poor fugitives passing; And to the magistrate handed it, saying: "Apportion the money 'Mongst thy destitute people, and God vouchsafe it an increase.

As the sunlight streams forth over the earth, and over the extensive solitary forests, so does God's spirit stream over and into mankind; ideas and thoughts unfold themselvesendless, inexhaustible, as he isas the magnet which apportions its powers to the steel, and itself loses nothing thereby.

King Ferdinand and M. Venezelos are generally credited with the inception and realisation of the League, though it was so secretly and skilfully concerted that it is not yet possible correctly to apportion praise for the remarkable achievement.

59 collocations for  apportion