Sentence examples for apportionment which from inspiring English sources

The equitable apportionment which Nebraska seeks is based on the principle of priority of appropriation applied interstate.

Wyoming earnestly contends that storage water as well as natural flow should be included in the apportionment which is made for this section of the river.

Finally, we note our agreement with the Master that all uses of mainstream water within a State are to be charged against that State's apportionment, which of course includes uses by the United States.

She argues that the Court has the power to allocate storage water though its disposition is controlled by contracts between the United States and irrigation districts; and that an apportionment which excludes storage water is unfair.

Not only did both men's surrogates denigrate the other side, but slaveholding states like Virginia had real electoral advantages: slaves couldn't vote, of course, but each was counted as 3/5 of a person for congressional apportionment, which in turn, influenced the weight of the electoral college.

In 1964, the court upheld the newly established rule of ''one person, one vote'' to end the practice of wildly uneven apportionment, which produced, for example, a map in Vermont with a State Assembly district for only 36 people and California State Senate districts that varied from 14,000 people to six million.

The United States and Nebraska advance as their preferred alternative a strict priority apportionment in which the rights of each appropriator would be fixed.

After the breakup of the federation in 1963 and Prime Minister Smith's unilateral declaration of independence from Britain two years later, Bishop Lamont criticized the new segregationist Constitution and land apportionment acts, which divided the country into black and white areas, calling them "a direct contradiction of the New Testament's teaching".

And without raw vote totals, the delegates become all-important, and that's when you trip into the fact that there are county convention delegates (the coin-flip guys) and "State Delegate Equivalents," or SDEs, the total apportionment of which solely determine who was "won".

He banned the main nationalist group, the National Democratic Party, for being violent and intimidatory it reformed overnight as the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU and announced that the UFP would repeal the Land Apportionment Act, which segregated the ownership and occupation of certain areas on a racial basis, if it won the next Southern Rhodesian election.

The final corrected count, on which apportionment will be based, is to be presented to the President by Dec. 1.