Sentence examples for reapportion from inspiring English sources

In 1920, when the census revealed big shifts from the countryside to the cities, rural politicians refused to reapportion seats in Congress to reflect the census results.And yet, though fights over the census are nothing new, there may all the same be something in Mr Prewitt's pessimism.

In what is called "the largest peacetime mobilisation of the American government", the data are collected, tabulated and used to reapportion seats in the House of Representatives and divvy up over $180 billion of federal money among the states.Every census, because of its political repercussions, acquires some political electricity; but never more so than now.

The results of the census are used to reapportion seats in the House of Representatives and divide billions of federal dollars among the states.

The state constitution requires that the legislature reapportion itself according to population every six years.

During the 19th and much of the 20th century, failure to reapportion the number of seats in representative bodies to take account of population changes resulting from increasing urbanization generally benefitted rural electoral districts.

Because the General Assembly refused to reapportion its seats—in spite of the substantial shifts in population that had occurred over the centuries or expand the right to vote, suffrage supporters led by Thomas Wilson Dorr called a convention in 1842 that drew up a new constitution (later overwhelmingly approved by referendum), elected Dorr governor, and attempted to establish a new government.

A paper just published in PNAS by Glen Peters and colleagues looks at how the world's carbon emissions get reapportioned when the carbon used to make traded goods and services is charged against the account of the ultimate consumer, not the initial producer.

But unravelling and reapportioning assets and liabilities might be impossibly tricky.An alternative is to ban banks from the riskiest activities.

That would greatly reduce its say in the November elections for governor, Congress and state legislature, which would then diminish labour's clout when congressional seats are reapportioned after the census in 2000.Yet the unions have a riposte up their sleeve.

That would provide a higher "baseline" level of revenue that could then be reapportioned in negotiations over tax reform in 2013.Even as some Republicans hint at conceding on tax rates, they complain that Mr Obama has yet to do the same on spending.

Indeed, according to the Sentencing Project and Human Rights Watch, almost a third of black men in Alabama and Florida are permanently banned from voting.A second sad fact, at least for Democrats and blacks, is the January 25th decision by the Supreme Court that the 2000 census should not employ sampling techniques to determine the reapportioning of the 435 House seats.