Sentence examples for basis of apportioning from inspiring English sources
Even the United States Census, which serves as the basis of apportioning Congressional representatives and taxes to each state, is survey-based.
The strong wording stops short of apportioning blame for the attack.
The whole story is concerned with the complicated business of apportioning blame, guilt and justice.
The Thistle Baby meal kit consists of vacuum-sealed bags of apportioned, organic ingredients, flash-frozen to preserve flavor.
How is the original cost basis apportioned to the pieces?
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.
They are apportioned on the basis of the popular vote and in some cases further weighted according to how many Democrats voted in the previous election in each congressional district.
The Great Compromise, as it came to be known, created a bicameral legislature with a Senate, in which all states would be equally represented, and a House of Representatives, in which representation would be apportioned on the basis of a state's free population plus three-fifths of its slave population.
Congress, he said, should also consider raising the age of eligibility for retirement benefits under Social Security and apportioning those benefits on the basis of a means test.
The 435 seats in the House of Representatives are apportioned every decade on the basis of population.
