That step would cause at least a temporary suspension of the work of the home rule legislature that was created in 1998, when a peace agreement set a formula apportioning authority equally between Protestants and Catholics.
A disagreement over how to apportion agency revenues equitably deadlocked the authority's 12-member board of commissioners and stalled action on major projects for more than a year.
There was a clear chain of command and a firmly established hierarchy of officials, with duties clearly apportioned between authorities.
It's economically unfeasible to monitor every athlete 365 days a year, and performance profiling could help anti-doping authorities apportion limited resources.
In its 1963 Arizona v. California decision, the court found that in authorizing the Hoover Dam, Congress had delegated to the secretary of the interior authority to apportion the river among Arizona, Nevada and California.
If Apple were to be taxed properly, tax authorities would apportion some part of the profits of the company to each part of the chain of companies involved in creating Apple products, but how do we work out how much of the profits of a $1,000 iPhone should go to one part of the chain or another?
Where these organisations spanned more than one local authority, we apportioned the total allocation to each local authority based on their population size, using look-up tables provided by the UK Data Archive.
It remains to be seen how authority will be apportioned among the Smithsonian's top executives.
We are therefore urging the Saudi authorities not to apportion blame to the pilgrims for not obeying instructions".
"We are urging the Saudi authorities not to apportion blame for not obeying instructions, they should instead look into the issues of this disaster," he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.
