To
apportion means to distribute or allocate something, such as resources, responsibilities, or tasks, among different individuals or groups in a fair or appropriate manner.
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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.
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.
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.
Various principles
for apportioning liabilities between Scotland and rUK have been suggested.
Do you think crypto assets should be equally
apportioned in the event of a divorce?
Permanently engaged all - wheel drive automatically
apportions power among the four wheels.
I think it noteworthy — although the panel in Martin v. Listowel did not — that s. 1 of the Negligence Act speaks of
apportioning fault between «persons», not between «parties.»
The other portion of the «New 40», says Art, should be roughly equally
apportioned among currencies, commodities, specialized equity (REITs and MLPs) and gold.
Allocation of Cash The business day after a deposit into the HTF (e.g., August 11, 2014), cash will be allocated to the States in proportion to their share of
apportioned funding.
But with a faster - acting all - wheel drive system
apportioning drive between each axle and an improved rear locking differential, its ability to carry big speed through corners is quite sensational.
«If anyone says we can
not apportion blame for our loss then that person doesn't know what he is talking about.
The ICS employs a loser pays» costs regime whereby the successful party is entitled to recover its full costs, unless — in exceptional circumstances — the tribunal considers it appropriate to
apportion costs between the parties.
A rear differential can
then apportion more torque to an individual rear wheel to help the car corner.
Requires states to obligate an amount of reserved funds for each fiscal year equal to the
amount apportioned to the state for the surface transportation program for FY2009 for recreational trails projects.
In the S4, that drive system
apportions more power to the rear wheels than the front compared to A4 models, at a 40 / 60 - percent split favoring the rear.
The first defendant's appeal on apportionment was allowed and liability
apportioned as follows: 35 % for him, 35 % for the second defendant and 30 % (ie, unchanged) for the third defendant.
The way it grips up through corners is breath - taking, the quattro
system apportioning torque 40:60 front to rear and able to push up to 85 per cent to the rear axle thanks to a mechanical centre diff.
The Psalms — whether national or springing, as even national psalms must, out of personal experience and conviction — voice repeatedly the assurance that God's indefectible justice in
apportioning reward and retribution, while not now evident, will be revealed in time.
Pursuant to the Contributory Negligence Act, RSA 2000, c C - 27, the trial
judge apportions liability as follows: one - third to the driver and two - thirds to the cyclist.
This is used to evaluate causation, your opponent's liability, and is ultimately a way for
apportioning damages.
The financial resources of the party seeking maintenance, including marital
property apportioned to that spouse, and that spouse's ability to meet that spouse's own needs independently.
I have a young family to care for, and I wrestle
with apportioning my time and focus between my obligations at home and the demands of my business.
How can this
Court apportion liability against a non party who has had no opportunity to defend himself as in the Martin case?
This has the effect of
better apportioning power between the two rear wheels and thus improving traction in this driving situation.
Executive Session on HB 1452,
which apportions taxes based on equalized valuation of cooperative school districts, on January 25 at 10 a.m.
This is not
about apportioning blame but we need to get away from this culture of ignoring our talent while ignoring the deficiencies of big money signings.
The above case focuses on the intervening cause law in another state, but New Mexico also follows the theory of independent causes
when apportioning liability in personal injury cases.
In order to facilitate collaboration with firms who wish to collaborate with us, we have devised tailor - made fee schedules for referrals, joint venture and other types of arrangements that
equitably apportion fees based on division of labor and risk exposure.
Without apportioning blame here, we would note that both crises are involving the further cultural advance of the «permissive» vision of sex and love and the further marginalisation of the only realistic alternative, the Catholic vision.
Right now, places like California assume water will be stored as snow in the winter and then will come as runoff in the spring, which the
state apportions for various uses during the dry season.
Usually, a winning SLAPP defendant has to
apportion fees attributable to SLAPP activities, but this decision allows the trial judge to award extra-SLAPP fees as long as the other activities were «on the contract» under Civil Code section 1717 for purposes of fee recovery in the entire litigation matter.
Historically, the Republican Party has been strongest in upstate New York where, until the 1970s, the state constitution
apportioned voting districts «in such a manner that allowed more votes to be cast per voting district.»
As the mechanism for
apportioning congressional districts — and billions of federal dollars linked to geographic, income, and population data — the census has always been a political football.