Sentence examples for apportioning agreement from inspiring English sources

In 1922, representatives from Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California reached an apportioning agreement, called the Colorado River Compact, which divided the river's watershed into two basins, upper and lower, and allocated the flow equally between them.

The moves, disclosed in a series of statements throughout the day from Prime Minister Tony Blair, his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern and other principals, were aimed at reviving the suspended local government that is the centerpiece of the peace agreement apportioning power between the province's Catholic minority and Protestant majority.

The arms dispute has blocked progress in putting into full effect the three-year-old Northern Ireland peace agreement that apportions political power between the province's Catholics and Protestants.

Negotiators from the British and Irish governments and Ulster's political parties, in years of maneuvering around the subject, found enough wiggle room to draw up a peace agreement that apportions power among the province's warring Catholic and Protestant populations.

And there is no agreement yet on apportioning the bills for the biggest-ticket items -- the roadways, air-cooling plant and foundation walls -- that serve all the users on the site, including about 250,000 square feet of underground retail space.

This apportioning was based on an agreement that had been reached in London in 1944 and confirmed during the Potsdam Conference in 1945 (at the Cäcilienhof Castle, now a museum and hotel) by the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union; according to its terms, Germany was divided into occupation zones and Greater Berlin into sectors within, but not part of, the Soviet zone of occupation.

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.

Mond made a gentlemen's agreement with Solvay to apportion the global markets, with Mond's company having exclusive rights to the United States and to the British Isles.

In 1996 both countries signed an agreement resolving the dispute by apportioning the waters of the Ganges between the two countries.

This larger space may involve time (here the repeated nature of the game becomes relevant), issues (considering other committees in which similar agreements are required), or quotas (apportioning candidates when more than one is to be appointed).7.7

The basin's surface water is apportioned precisely under the Colorado River Compact, a 1922 agreement among seven states.