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allots

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Third person singular of allot

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The group's "renters' index", which compiles findings from the past five years, allots its bottom three slots to Westminster (Conservative), Merton (now Labour but under no overall control until last year) and Hammersmith and Fulham (now Labour, but Tory until last year).

THE confusion of concurrent powers that Canada's constitution allots to its federal government and the ten provinces has long been a source of friction.

The most recent "award", in 2010, by the National Finance Commission, which allots Pakistan's resources to its individual provinces, managed the politically difficult feat of giving Punjab, the biggest and richest, a smaller share than its proportion of the population.

And though Islamic law protects women's right to property, it allots them only half the share of male relations in inheritance.

This is hardly surprising, since Lebanese elections are run on a quota system that allots seats by sect.

Superdelegates are an oddity unique to the Democratic Party which allots Democratic congressmen, senators, ex-presidents and other high-ranking party panjandrums distinctly undemocratic seats at the convention.

Most contentiously, they dream of an internal border that allots big chunks of "Arab" northern Iraq to Kurdistan, including Kirkuk.

It is owned by its 76,500 workers or, to be more precise (which Mr Clegg was not), an independent trust holds all the shares and allots staff an annual bonus.John Spedan Lewis (pictured), son of the store's founder, formed the partnership in 1928 partly to head off rising communist sentiment.

The stimulus allots $7 billion for states that agree to updated eligibility rules for unemployment benefits.

A modern Javanese system allots numbers 1 7 to the pitches of the seven-note pelog scale, and a similar five-note system exists in Bali.

The Grail may be formally linked to the Church (as a "secular institute"), but they are independent souls, painfully aware of the shortcomings of the male, clerical culture that continues to dominate Catholicism, and the secondary role it still allots to women.

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