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  • noun Plural form of apportionment.

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  • Action: OMB, departments, and agencies will minimize budget restrictions such as apportionments and allotments. 16

    National Performance Review Report Chapter ITY National Archives 1993

  • Yes, lots of different kind of apportionments can work and be fair, but our current one seems to reflect pretty well the mix of what we have to deal with.

    Another Green World 2008

  • The Holtham Commission, one of the most thorough reviews of the distribution of public expenditure in the UK, concluded that if the formula used to apportion public expenditure in England were applied to the devolved administrations, Wales would receive nearly £400m more per annum, and Scotland around £4bn less, compared with the apportionments dictated by a creaking Barnett formula.

    We are still a nation divided by shameful economic injustice | The big issue 2011

  • One issue: the 1922 accord was signed during one of the wettest years on record in the Southwest, setting apportionments that water managers say now appear too generous given the region's frequency of drought.

    Wet Winter Can't Slake West's Thirst Jim Carlton 2011

  • The Holtham Commission, one of the most thorough reviews of the distribution of public expenditure in the UK, concluded that if the formula used to apportion public expenditure in England were applied to the devolved administrations, Wales would receive nearly £400m more per annum, and Scotland around £4bn less, compared with the apportionments dictated by a creaking Barnett formula.

    We are still a nation divided by shameful economic injustice | The big issue 2011

  • Lake Mead, already shriveled to 60 percent of maximum capacity in 2004 it fell to its lowest level in four decades, was doomed to shrink further: An average 9.0 million acre-feet a year came in, but demand in the lower basin and apportionments to Mexico subtracted 9.5 million, and another 800,000 acre-feet were lost to evaporation.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • Unfortunately, the Dem Party State Committee controls a number of delegates, and I'm not sure how the regional apportionments work, so it's possible that Obama might not gain many net delegates with his victory.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • Unfortunately, the Dem Party State Committee controls a number of delegates, and I'm not sure how the regional apportionments work, so it's possible that Obama might not gain many net delegates with his victory.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • "Management's response: The Administrator concurred, stating that the OCFO will demonstrate that appropriations available to be spent in FY 2006 can be traced from appropriations, to apportionments, to allotments, to commitments, and to obligations."

    NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: June 2010 Archives 2010

  • The darkest shadow over the river apportionments was cast by the belated realization that Arthur Powell Davis, in promising that the river would always provide enough water to satisfy all demands, had perpetrated a fraud.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

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