Sentence examples for were to be apportioned from inspiring English sources

He had assigned his delegate expert, John Yob, to work through likely outcomes in a series of coming state and county conventions where delegates were to be apportioned — and where he was staking much of his hopes for an upset.

For another, even if the entire non-Social Security surplus were to be apportioned, the government would still have a huge buffer in the form of the surplus being generated by Social Security -- more than $2.5 trillion over the next decade.

In particular, it is often unclear how best to define the population among which a specified number of legislative seats are to be apportioned.

Regulators are debating how this 10percentt is to be apportioned: the question is whether four-tenths of the 10percentt must be emission free, meaning electric -- larger versions of the yellow scooter -- or whether this proportion may drop to two-tenths.

While everyone shares a common interest in preventing a meltdown, we could still have arguments about who was to blame and how the costs of a recovery package are to be apportioned.

Every economic system must determine not only what goods will be produced but also how those goods are to be apportioned, or distributed (see distribution of wealth and income).

An Olympics in London isn't a bad consolation, even if the pressures of heading the games' organisation – the first man in line if, or perhaps when, any blame is to be apportioned – are much greater than those facing an individual athlete.

This appears to (indirectly) signal that some of the responsibility for the shoulder pain is Graham's, and in the context of Graham's prior assertion about the "fault" being Alex's own, the interaction appears to have entered a phase where blame is to be apportioned.

If Apple were to be taxed properly, tax authorities would apportion some part of the profits of the company to each part of the chain of companies involved in creating Apple products, but how do we work out how much of the profits of a $1,000 iPhone should go to one part of the chain or another?

If there was blame to be apportioned for the marketing failure, it cut across party lines.

After 90 minutes of unremitting toil, perspiration and scant regard for loftier reputations, blame was starting to be apportioned.