How to Use apportionment in a Sentence

apportionment

noun
  • That apportionment evolved over the years and is based solely on ability.
    — Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2023
  • Class distinctions were maintained above all in the apportionment of land.
    — Alec MacGillis, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2016
  • Water apportionment, on the Rio Grande and elsewhere, is based on that concept.
    — Jim Robbins, Wired, 25 June 2022
  • This apportionment of blame is the first step in backpropagation.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Each state’s apportionment is the sum of its House and Senate delegates.
    — Jay Cost, National Review, 3 Sep. 2019
  • That was the slimmest margin since 1940, when the current method for apportionment was adopted.
    — Ramsey Archibald | [email protected], al, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The door to formulary apportionment and global minimum tax rates has been cracked open.
    — Nicholas Shaxson, Foreign Affairs, 7 July 2021
  • In response, a bipartisan coalition emerged to fight back against these anti-alien apportionment bills.
    — Made By History, Time, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The census is vital for the funding of schools, roads, health care, not to mention the fair apportionment of congressional seats.
    — Jeremy Miller, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • There are, classically, one or two apportionment lawsuits over the last seat (in Congress).
    — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 27 Mar. 2018
  • And that became a critical point of failure for law enforcement chiefs looking to make the early apportionment of blame.
    — Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The core purpose of the census is to tally the population for the apportionment of seats in Congress.
    — Karen Sandstrom, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The challenge to keep their majority will be complicated by the changes in apportionment.
    — Grace Segers, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Kentucky's apportionment in the House has not changed since 1990, when the state's seats decreased from seven to six.
    — Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 26 Apr. 2021
  • But a courageous governor, LeRoy Collins, fought his heart out for voting rights and fair apportionment.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 May 2026
  • The dining and living rooms are part of the second segment of this home, an apportionment that also holds a full bath and two bedrooms that radiate off a hallway.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Minnesota received the last seat in the 2020 apportionment of the House.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
  • But the idea, which specifically ruled out using data for apportionment and required the count to be taken in years ending in five, never got funded.
    — Ronald J. Hansen, AZCentral.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Census spokesman Michael Cook said the data for apportionment will be released the same time it is delivered to the president.
    — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2020
  • Roll Call first reported on the apportionment of new funds for White House security.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
  • This is embodied in the Senate, where apportionment is equal among the states, regardless of population.
    — Jay Cost, National Review, 29 Jan. 2018
  • In other words, count everyone, then subtract two-fifths of slaves and most Native Americans for apportionment.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The basin is in a long-term drought, and for the foreseeable future California will be lucky to get its full statutory apportionment of river water.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The school board will adopt a new budget in December, after the state calculates district's apportionment based on the new funding formula approved by the state last month.
    — Suzanne Baker, Will County, 19 Sep. 2017
  • In general, the apportionment of electoral districts this year appears to be the fairest in 40 years, as reported by the New York Times.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Trump's second term is set to end before final decisions have to be made on what questions the 2030 census will ask and who ends up getting included in the apportionment counts.
    — Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Olson is right that the drafters and ratifiers of the 16th Amendment thought that, to be exempted from the apportionment requirement, an income tax could reach only net income.
    — Jonathan H. Adler, Washington Post, 13 May 2017
  • After the last census, the apportionment data was released on December 21, causing 10 states to lose seats in Congress and eight to again them.
    — Maya Rhodan, Time, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Should the Supreme Court reverse the lower court on technical grounds, states could then sue, saying the new apportionment hurt their representation in Congress.
    — al, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Even though the rules for congressional apportionment are made at the beginning of the decade after the census, there could be some changes between now and the next House election, in 2024.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2022

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