Fatma complains that merit and expertise are ignored while "everything from high-level bureaucratic positions to large-scale construction projects are apportioned in a corrupt system of nepotism and cronyism, and every bit of injustice creates its own backlash".
Population density was apportioned in a similar way.
Under that guise, Coastal Villages, the largest of the groups by population, with about 9,300 residents, began an effort last year to get Congress to change how pollock and other fish are apportioned in western Alaska — to a formula based on population.
Practice space at the Open is apportioned in keeping with a player's position in the food chain: Federer and Williams got their own courts, but those with double-digit rankings might be squeezed onto a single court with three other players.
However, the assertion that the relative contributions of genes and environment, nature and nurture, can be apportioned in this way is misleading if not outright false.
Few delegates were at stake -- 16 were apportioned in Washington, and none in Nevada -- but the victories came as polls here showed that Mr. Kerry was heading for success in the Wisconsin primary on Tuesday.
Any Muslim will tell you of the vitriol they face for speaking out online, and the blame they are apportioned in the aftermath of terrorist incidents (I'm certainly bracing myself for more "Love letters to Mehreen" – a Facebook page I launched as a way of exposing and combatting the racial and sexist hate that comes my way).
And it adds to her lead over Mr. Obama in the race for super-delegates – the elected officials and party leaders who vote for the Democratic nominee, along with delegates who are apportioned in the primaries and caucuses.
In other words, their numbers can increase without constraints as long as they can be accommodated with major costs in a lineage or can be apportioned in different lineages.
United are adamant they prepared everything with time to spare and that the blame should not be apportioned in their direction.
