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Example sentences for "apportions"

Lexicographically close words:
apportion; apportioned; apportioning; apportionment; apportionments; appose; apposed; apposite; appositely; appositeness
  1. In every State, a certain proportion of inhabitants are deprived of this right by the Constitution of the State, who will be included in the census by which the Federal Constitution apportions the representatives.

  2. In every State, a certain proportion of inhabitants are deprived of this right by the constitution of the State, who will be included in the census by which the Federal constitution apportions the representatives.

  3. But, forget not, that the same gracious Heaven, in its mercy, apportions to their trials the strength of the feeble creatures of its hand; and my strength has enabled me to bear my burden.

  4. He supplies the miners with iron tools when they are about to start to work in the mines, and apportions a certain weight of oil for their lamps, and trains them to dig to the best advantage, and sees that they work faithfully.

  5. He engages all footmen, apportions their work and is responsible for their appearance, manners and efficiency.

  6. The owner of the vessel agrees to undertake the voyage with a number of people, great or small, in proportion to its size, and apportions the vessel among them in the following manner.

  7. It requires an enumeration of the inhabitants every ten years; and the next congress thereafter determines the ratio of representation and the number of representatives, and apportions them among the states.

  8. If there is no other officer whose duty it is, the superintendent also apportions the money arising from the state funds among the several counties.

  9. He can also discriminate between slaves who are willing and industrious, and those who are careless and indolent; and apportions their labour according to their respective deserts and capacities.

  10. It is not that Nature, in adjusting the symmetries of her scenic structures, nicely apportions the skyscape to the landscape of a country merely for artistic effect.

  11. In some States he receives the assessor's returns, apportions taxes among the people, and prepares the tax-collector's duplicate list.

  12. The Commission apportions the convicts to the various counties desiring to use convict labor on the public roads.


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