"apportion responsibility for" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to assign or distribute responsibility for something among different parties or individuals. Example: The project manager will apportion responsibility for the project's success among the team members based on their individual contributions.
Widgery 2.54: "To those who seek to apportion responsibility for the events of 30 January the question 'Who fired first?' is vital.
Today, we and several colleagues are publishing a peer-reviewed paper in the journal Climatic Change that shows it is possible for scientific evidence to help apportion responsibility for climate damages among fossil fuel producers.
Among the issues resolved over the last two weeks were how constitutional power would devolve to Sri Lanka's provinces, thus giving Tamils more rights, and how to apportion responsibility for finances and law and order.
As more investigations continue to increasingly apportion responsibility for the disaster to Transocean and Halliburton, BP will be able to share the cost of liabilities.
Although the report does not apportion responsibility for the civilian deaths, it makes clear that the U.N. regards Islamic State as the greatest threat to peace.
Communication between specialist and primary caregivers thus ranged in complexity, from a phone call to the GP and primary service providers after treatment decisions had been made [ 19] to structured case conferences where patients, carers, secondary care providers and primary care providers met multiple times to develop a care plan and apportion responsibility for the required tasks [ 20, 21].
There was widespread disappointment, for example, that the 9/11 commission apportioned responsibility for the catastrophe so widely and did not name and shame an individual.
So I think if people want to apportion responsibility and blame for all of that it's going to have to be apportioned and shared out all over the place".
One of the authors of a Marine report that blamed crew error for a jet's slicing the cables of an Italian ski lift testified today that the investigating board was divided over how to apportion responsibility.
It's worth taking a moment to take a look at how the company got to where it is today, so that we can correctly apportion responsibility.
