The phrase "apportioning of blame" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the distribution or assignment of responsibility for a fault or wrongdoing among individuals or groups.
Example: "In the aftermath of the incident, there was much debate about the apportioning of blame among the various parties involved."
Alternatives: "assigning blame" or "distribution of blame".
A few days later, the three-way party political apportioning of blame about Lords reform barged its way into the news.
In the apportioning of blame for the financial crisis, corporate boards of directors have remained remarkably unscathed, even though they effectively approved the strategies that immolated so many companies.
Brown's initial contention that there would be no apportioning of blame was also later contradicted, this time by the foreign secretary, David Miliband, although Miliband emphasised that criminal or civil liability would not be established.
Rashomon was concerned with the apportioning of blame, but also with the right way to move forward, how to distribute wealth, whom to trust with the raising of the next generation.
Today, the United Kingdom is fixated on nautical news, as rescue operations cease and the apportioning of blame begins in the crash of the Costa Concordia, the 114,500-ton cruise ship (it was the twenty-sixth largest in the world) that ran aground Friday night off the coast of Giglio, Italy, killing at least six passengers.
Amidst all the apportioning of blame – and there is plenty enough to go around – our sober attention must also turn to what this appalling incident, like the terrible Bangladeshi textile factory fire just over a month ago, tells us about the dark side of competitive markets, and the complicity of governments committed to facilitating their spread around the world.
Complacency, with an unfair apportion of blame on the patient for not getting better, is the biggest threat to continued improvement.
"I'm not going to apportion any kind of blame other than that on myself," said Wilkinson.
It isn't an easy following of received wisdom, an apportioning of praise or blame without intelligent, individual thought.
Wade, Chandler and other radicals — members of what Lincoln's secretary John Hay called the Jacobin Club — no doubt found in Stone a means of striking at McClellan, Stone's immediate superior and friend, and of apportioning blame for the death of the popular Col. Edward Baker.
However, the US Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency stopped short of apportioning blame or fines for the trading errors.
