Population density was apportioned in a similar way.
Under that guise, Coastal Villages, the largest of the groups by population, with about 9,300 residents, began an effort last year to get Congress to change how pollock and other fish are apportioned in western Alaska — to a formula based on population.
On the basis of this count, however, seats are apportioned in the House of Representatives, legislative districts are redrawn in the states, and federal money is handed round.
Seats in the Lebanese Parliament are apportioned in each electorial district according to the religious allegiances that pre-dominatedominate among its residents.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2 — Republican donors are pumping new life into a proposed ballot initiative, considered all but dead by Democrats a month ago, that would alter the way electoral votes are apportioned in California to the benefit of Republican presidential candidates.
And it adds to her lead over Mr. Obama in the race for super-delegates – the elected officials and party leaders who vote for the Democratic nominee, along with delegates who are apportioned in the primaries and caucuses.
Any Muslim will tell you of the vitriol they face for speaking out online, and the blame they are apportioned in the aftermath of terrorist incidents (I'm certainly bracing myself for more "Love letters to Mehreen" – a Facebook page I launched as a way of exposing and combatting the racial and sexist hate that comes my way).
The fight was over the unglamorous rules process that dictates how delegates are apportioned in each state.
Afterwards the accumulated costs of the next service cost centre are apportioned in the same way.
Practice space at the Open is apportioned in keeping with a player's position in the food chain: Federer and Williams got their own courts, but those with double-digit rankings might be squeezed onto a single court with three other players.
