How to Use apportionment in a Sentence

apportionment

noun

• 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
• That was the slimmest margin since 1940, when the current method for apportionment was adopted.
  — Ramsey Archibald | [e-mail], al, 12 Aug. 2021
• The numbers used for apportionment are derived from the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident that is set to end in two weeks.
  — Mike Schneider, Star Tribune, 16 Sep. 2020
• 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
• Water apportionment, on the Rio Grande and elsewhere, is based on that concept.
  — Jim Robbins, Wired, 25 June 2022
• Each state’s apportionment is the sum of its House and Senate delegates.
  — Jay Cost, National Review, 3 Sep. 2019
• That apportionment evolved over the years and is based solely on ability.
  — Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2023
• 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
• Class distinctions were maintained above all in the apportionment of land.
  — Alec MacGillis, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2016
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The new apportionment of Congress is expected by the end of April, and one fewer seat could mean the Second District would have to grow to accommodate more voters.
  — Briana Bierschbach, Star Tribune, 20 Apr. 2021
• This apportionment of blame is the first step in backpropagation.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• There are, classically, one or two apportionment lawsuits over the last seat (in Congress).
  — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 27 Mar. 2018
• Westerners benefit from the seven-state compact reached in 1922 over apportionment of the waters of the Colorado River, which set the ground rules for construction of Hoover Dam.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Trump’s unprecedented order on apportionment was challenged in more than a half-dozen lawsuits across the U.S., but the Supreme Court ruled last month that any challenge was premature.
  — Mike Schneider, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Jan. 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
• 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
• The challenge to keep their majority will be complicated by the changes in apportionment.
  — Grace Segers, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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 Census Bureau released its first round of data from its 2020 survey, showing population counts for the country and states as well as the new apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives.
  — Julius Lasin, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2021
• The chances of a decision by Wednesday have appeared slim for weeks, with Black and Latino aldermen at loggerheads over the final apportionment of wards between the two caucuses.
  — Gregory Pratt, chicagotribune.com, 1 Dec. 2021
• Conservatives strengthened their majority in the state Supreme Court and are hoping to hold on to those apportionment advantages.
  — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 12 Apr. 2023
• They can’t be used to change how many congressional seats each state was allotted during the apportionment process, nor for the data used for redrawing political districts.
  — Mike Schneider, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024