It is reasonable to conclude that China's rising carbon footprint is in no small part attributable to the consumer demands of its trading partners and points to the challenge of apportioning blame responsibilities on a geographic basis, as the current international climate negotiations attempt to do. (greenleapforward.com)
The result, claims Porsche, is more rapid apportioning of power between the front and rear axles together with a torque - vectoring function to juggle the amount of drive that goes to each individual rear wheel. (autoweek.com)
I think that there is some case history in the pollution field, actually: when multiple sources produce a particular pollutant that has been fingered as «at cause» in a sickness or mortality incident, the blame gets apportioned between the sources as some function of their contribution to the exposure. (realclimate.org)