Ministers need advice on how to apportion funding between different councils, on the balance between responsive mode grants and strategic initiatives, and so on.
In accounting for Darfur's invisibility, there is of course much blame to apportion--between the European Union, the African Union, the UN, as well as the U.S.
We find it difficult, in the situation before us, to envision a jury instruction that would accurately advise a jury on how to apportion fault between these two distinct types of conduct.
Death among the elderly or disabled mostly has to do with how old or sick they are to begin with, and the statisticians could never quite work out how to apportion blame between nature and doctors.
The success of that novel was driven by Shriver's cool-headed unwillingness to apportion blame between the evil son and his calculating, compassionless mother, so that the reader becomes a moral arbiter, forced to take sides in the nature-nurture debate.
Japanese casualties were estimated at 2,200, but it is impossible to apportion them between the 7th and 9th Divisions.
Nevertheless, the question of how to apportion causality between two or more interacting factors remains.
The virulence of influenza variants varies somewhat, although it is difficult to apportion mortality between the virus (its intrinsic virulence) and the host (whether it has any prevailing immunity to the strain).
The matrix P a n H n T R n - 1, often called the Kalman gain matrix, describes how to apportion the discrepancies between the actual and predicted observations to yield the increment between the forecast ("background") state, u ¯ b n, and its update ("analysis"), u ¯ a n.
Still unresolved is how to apportion political power between the government and the rebels.
