The phrase "attempt to apportion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of trying to divide or allocate something among different parties or categories.
Example: "The committee will attempt to apportion the budget fairly among all departments."
Alternatives: "try to allocate" or "make an effort to divide".
At such a time, the attempt to apportion blame and responsibility between the political and executive levels of government becomes artificial and obsolete.
"We will not speculate, make judgments or attempt to apportion responsibility until all of these investigations are concluded and the Board of Regents has sufficient information to make the decisions necessary to better safeguard the well-being of student athletes," the spokesman said last month.
It was a horror that was largely ignored by the international community - the US State Department attempted to apportion some of the blame on Iran.
Vardy wheeled away, arms outstretched in his now familiar celebratory pose, while Terry, Zouma and Courtois exchanged glares and shrugs as they attempted to apportion the blame.
As a way of organizing a society politically, popular self-government attempts to apportion each person an equal share in our collective endeavor through a single vote.
In the aftermath of these regimes, the attempts to apportion individual blame have revealed again and again the astonishing power of denial.
By attempting to apportion blame so quickly after the preventable death of two young people, he displayed the crass lack of judgment and arrogance that have been the defining characteristics of his reign.
"After the shocking tragedy I listened at first puzzled, then with concern and now with sadness to the irresponsible statements by people attempting to apportion blame for this terrible event," she said.
On the other hand, FA attempts to apportion the sources and to determine their composition on the basis of a series of observations at the receptor site only [40].
After this shocking tragedy, I listened at first puzzled, then with concern, and now with sadness, to the irresponsible statements from people attempting to apportion blame for this terrible event".
"After this shocking tragedy, I listened at first puzzled, then with concern, and now with sadness, to the irresponsible statements from people attempting to apportion blame for this terrible event". Palin strongly pushed back at the notion that overheated political speech helped give rise to a climate that placed lawmakers such as Giffords at risk.
