The legislature's 751 seats are apportioned by the bloc's treaties.
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Requisitions have to be apportioned by some formula or other.
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These are the places where power in America gets apportioned.
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After that, the totals will be calculated and delegates apportioned.
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Another 29 delegates will be apportioned based on West Virginia's results.
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Once money goes into an account, it's apportioned among many others.
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Each electoral district has seats apportioned according to its demographic makeup.
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The event isn't complete until everyone does his or her apportioned bit.
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He apportioned liability between AbbVie and Besins according to their agreed royalty rates.
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The Constitution is clear that congressional seats must be apportioned by total population.
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Bonuses were apportioned to those who stole the most valuable information, it said.
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Electoral votes are apportioned state by state, mostly on a winner-take-all basis.
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The affair was calamitous for Taylor, to whom America apportioned much of the blame.
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The second component, the 20-percent tax on imports, need not be apportioned either.
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Meat, for years the center of the American meal, became a sparingly apportioned luxury.
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Masters officials vigorously denied bias in the way they treated athletes or apportioned records.
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What is a more important civic question than how our tax dollars are apportioned?
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Shrovetide, those two or three days leading up to Lent, were once apportioned for confession.
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Another 405 votes will be apportioned based on votes by rank-and-file party members.
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Bartle said liability would be apportioned between AbbVie and Besins according their agreed royalty rates.
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President Ronald Reagan established a limited pool of imports that it apportioned among foreign producers.
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When a certain group is undercounted, it essentially means they are being apportioned less political power.
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A small child would pay less and be apportioned less room than an average-size adult.
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Instead, each state holds seats within an electoral college, apportioned only roughly according to its population.
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Under the Stone Tracy decision, the first component is an excise that need not be apportioned.
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Would each state have an equal number of delegates, or would they be apportioned by state?
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Another 405 votes will be apportioned based on the votes of rank-and-file party members.
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The meals are apportioned in color-coded trays and stored in walk-in freezers until delivery.
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It determines how many seats in Congress each state receives and how state legislatures are apportioned.
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After the upside-down cake had been cut and apportioned, Walter obliged with a family portrait.
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The remaining 2023 seats are then apportioned using a formula known as the Huntington-Hill method.
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Wouldn't it be better if I were a more intuitive cook who apportioned spices from her heart?
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It also determines the allocation of federal resources and how state and local legislative seats are apportioned.
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Political leaders in the state worry that they will miss out on federal dollars apportioned by population.
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Their supporters' votes are apportioned to those voters' next-highest choice, until someone emerges with a majority.
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The interests of popular sovereignty were protected by creating a House of Representatives apportioned according to population.
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Even sugar, coffee, soup and other foods were apportioned to inmates according to lines of racial hierarchy.
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In Tanzania, a very small percentage of money collected for hunting licenses is apportioned to the local people.
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So for the first 150-plus years of the republic, state legislatures apportioned themselves however they wanted to.
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It would have even been the same if the electors had been apportioned exactly by a state's population.
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The exact amount of shares apportioned to Earn CEO Balaji Srinivasan and other senior leaders couldn't be learned.
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Texas's next-biggest prize of 38 electoral-college votes are also usually apportioned to the Republicans ahead of time.
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They appear to have been apportioned by representatives of Mr Trump's campaign, including Corey Lewandowski, the then campaign manager.
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On the Republican side, CNN has apportioned 259 Super Tuesday delegates tonight out of the 661 up for grabs.
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The Thistle Baby meal kit consists of vacuum-sealed bags of apportioned, organic ingredients, flash-frozen to preserve flavor.
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There had been some expectations that the prime minister would have been less pointed in how she apportioned responsibility.
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So once the seats have been apportioned, parties try to cobble together coalitions that control a majority of seats.
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They find, for example, that both Democrats and Republicans believe that electoral maps are not apportioned to their advantage.
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At the same time, the juxtaposition has a moral aspect, telling us that grief is widely apportioned among us.
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A lot of blame has been apportioned to the internet and that's probably not far wide of the mark.
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It doesn't help that responsibilities in an emergency are not clearly apportioned among the utilities, the central government and municipalities.
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The realized gains from sales must be evenly apportioned to every share and paid out, resulting in distributions for everyone.
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Didier Deschamps said he had apportioned no blame four years ago but was pleased to dish out praise in Russia.
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Victims included teenagers and pregnant women, and many of those who were executed had already served out their apportioned sentences.
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HUD said that the delay stemmed from an effort to ensure proper safeguards were in place for the apportioned funds.
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An accurate census count is crucial, as it determines how congressional seats are apportioned and how government funds are distributed.
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The money will be put towards refunding the affected drivers, though the agency hasn't decided how exactly it will be apportioned.
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If there's comedy here, it's as bleak as it comes, but in Russo's universe, rest assured, deserts will be apportioned accordingly.
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The 128-seat parliament includes 64 Christians apportioned among seven denominations, and 64 Muslims, including equal numbers of Sunnis and Shi'ites.
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Mr Heede's calculations, which most scientists accept, mean that responsibility for past and future warming can be apportioned—at least in principle.
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One reason it's so important that we know how schools are disciplining our students is to ensure that punishment is apportioned fairly.
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And majorities of the court have since rejected the notion that the only direct taxes are those that can be apportioned easily.
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Opponents claim a wealth tax is unconstitutional because it is a direct tax that must be apportioned among the states by population.
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Data collected from the survey affect how congressional seats are apportioned and how federal funds are allocated to state and local governments.
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Buyers pay their legal fees and annual property costs like land tax and insurance, apportioned based on the closing date, Mr. Truss said.
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As part of the ruling class, members of the government got a share of the value apportioned simply because they were in power.
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Mosul was at first apportioned to France, then claimed by Turkey and subsequently handed to Britain, which attached it to the future Iraq.
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So the language adapted, and as the debates went on, excises and duties ceased to be direct because they could not be apportioned.
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It has 415 pledged delegates — 271 apportioned based on the results in the state's 53 congressional districts and 144 awarded by statewide vote.
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An additional 23 district-level delegates were already apportioned in February (13 to Clinton, 503 for Sanders) and remain pledged to those candidates.
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Though the husband, William Friedman, is usually apportioned the lion's share of the credit, his wife Elizebeth Friedman was in every way his equal.
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It is up to the judge in Ms. Rosales's case to decide how the $4.8 million raised in the Texas sale will be apportioned.
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Justice requires that, like any finite good, institutional access should be apportioned based on merit and on what benefits the community as a whole.
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Rigging the process by which the Constitution commands all persons in America be counted, and through which votes and government resources are apportioned and allocated.
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NPR recently documented that a sizeable amount of money apportioned from excise taxes — including those imposed on firearms purchases — goes back to state wildlife agencies.
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The constitutional objection to wealth taxation is based on two clauses that require any "direct tax" to be apportioned among the states based on population.
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The cost of our security technology in infringing devices has been apportioned and is less than a quarter of one percent of the device's cost.
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A less accurate count, they added, would affect apportioned seats in the House and and could skew the distribution of federal funding and other grants.
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Because VIP assignments are usually apportioned by location, units east of the Mississippi are tasked with conducting more Trump property missions, the enlisted tech explained.
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But the $60 discount for TV+ "is not solely apportioned to the TV+ revenue," Hall said, and Apple instead proportionally divides the discount to both.
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On the one hand, the Constitution clearly requires the House of Representatives to be apportioned based on "the whole number of persons," citizens and otherwise.
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A wealth tax is likely to be struck down by the Supreme Court as a direct tax not apportioned among states, as the Constitution requires.
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After every decennial census, each state is apportioned the number of seats that corresponds to its share of the aggregate population of all 50 states.
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The country's political parties have apportioned blame for the disaster to, variously, previous governments, the European Union, the road management company and even the Mafia.
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But demographers say there could be even deeper consequences: The question could generate the data necessary to redefine how political power is apportioned in America.
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However, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday denied a chemical attack had even taken place, saying that blame should not be apportioned without proof.
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I think there has to be serious thought about how the wealth generated by society is apportioned, and so I think there's some really valid questions.
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When apportioned by population, those 51 Republicans represent states with roughly 145.5 million Americans, while the 47 Democrats and 2 independents represent states with 179.5 million.
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Customers sign up to receive weekly bundles of meal kits stocked with pre-apportioned ingredients for a price that comes out to around $10 per serving.
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Lebanon has a complex electoral system with a parliament of 64 Christians apportioned among seven denominations, and 64 Muslims, with equal numbers of Sunnis and Shi'ites.
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For example, in the stock category, money can be apportioned to large-, mid- and small-cap U.S. equities, international developed markets, emerging markets and real estate.
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But long before the 1964 one-person-one-vote decision, states apportioned and drew legislative districts in a host of ways, including by counting only citizens.
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The room also had a well apportioned bathroom, with a large soaking tub, a pleasant (and hot) rain shower, and almost any toiletry you could need.
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I stayed in a spacious Deluxe Grand King room, which featured well-apportioned retro elements: a cabinet with curvy Art Moderne flourishes and pendant light fixtures.
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But after plaintiffs' attorney fees, administration costs, and allocations to the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, the amount apportioned to drivers was less than $1 million.
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A second argument made by wealth tax supporters is that the only direct taxes are taxes that can be apportioned among the states without too much hassle.
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The commission has not apportioned blame for the killings, but noted in its preliminary report that the site lay close to a near a former military post.
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Even if the Senate were apportioned by population, as the House of Representatives is, it would not reach the two-thirds majority needed to convict the president.
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The Electoral College consists of 538 electors, apportioned by states' populations; a candidate must pick up a majority of at least 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.
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Some of the blame seems to be apportioned to President Trump and the Republican Party in general, and some to the basic design of the American political system.
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In Jackson Heights, Queens, a 975-square-foot, one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with sunny and well-apportioned rooms, in a 1930s, six-story building with laundry facilities.
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Last week it passed a $22019 billion bill that apportioned half a million dollars for wildfire recovery in addition to its main focus of hurricane and flood relief.
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Which is the way of things in the real world; it is only the very young who can believe that blame is easily apportioned in a big, complicated world.
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Such a reduction could also affect how seats in the U.S. House are divided since seats in the 435-member body are apportioned based on each district's entire population.
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There is a history of MUFG supporting MUMSS in its early years of conception, although Fitch would now expect capital support for business expansion to be apportioned between shareholders.
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In a low-fat version of the Electoral College, the media members who compose the vast majority of Heisman voters are apportioned equally among six regions of the country.
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We interpreted fairness as a similarly apportioned mix of complimentary and derogatory stories about each contender, no matter how different one contender's qualifications, accomplishments and liabilities were from another's.
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The Constitution says Congress can impose direct taxes only if they are apportioned based on the population of states, outside of income tax, which is allowed under the 16th Amendment.
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"Nobody envisioned what we have out here," said Jerry Heinrich, who sat on the board of the planning commission that first apportioned the land for development in the mid-1990s.
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This inclines the legislature to parochial concerns rather than national ones — a tendency that is exacerbated by the fact that senators are apportioned equally among the states, regardless of population.
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Simon Johnson, Project Syndicate: Imagine Puerto Rico becoming the electric vehicle capital of the world, with well-apportioned recharging stations, near-zero emissions, and car sharing for the tourism sector.
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It will take some time for all the delegates from the primaries to be apportioned, but Biden looks set to increase his lead over Sanders to around 28503 pledged delegates.
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Speaking to reporters after departing Qatar, Pompeo declined to detail how the $1 billion in aid cuts would be apportioned or whether he set a deadline to settle their dispute.
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Much would depend on the financial and political terms under which Catalonia left, including how Spain's debt burden would be apportioned and whether Madrid would impose economic sanctions on Catalonia.
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The numbers serve as a preview of the census counts, which determine everything from how many congressional seats are apportioned to the states to electoral votes and federal funding formulas.
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Though black voters outnumbered white voters in the state at the time, the 1890 constitution apportioned the state legislature to guarantee a majority of seats would be held by white lawmakers.
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The Constitution requires the census in order to reapportion the US House of Representatives, so 435 congressional seats are apportioned to the 50 states based on the population each state has.
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"There is no precedent here," said Alice Denton, a Nevada lawyer who is leading the effort to have Mr. Paddock's estate apportioned among victims to help cover expenses like medical bills.
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Khalsa, a Sikh and longtime leader of the community, will run unopposed for a seat in the lower house of parliament that was apportioned to the minority by presidential decree in 2016.
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Those setbacks put paid to hopes of the BJP making inroads in Parliament's upper house, the Rajya Sabha; its rotating membership is indirectly elected, apportioned according to parties' success in state elections.
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In a sense, this has always been true: Who can totally suppress his annoyance with figures who endlessly lift trophies, particularly in a time when glory and honor are so unevenly apportioned?
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Stone Tracy Co., the Supreme Court held that a corporate income tax is an "excise upon the particular privilege of doing business in a corporate capacity" that need not be apportioned either.
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It is very difficult — and doesn't really make sense — to try and work out exactly how much of the work going into such a building block will be apportioned to individual features.
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It is a snapshot of America that determines how congressional seats are apportioned, how state and federal dollars are distributed, where businesses choose to ship products and where they build new stores.
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The 14th Amendment requires the House to be apportioned based on "the whole number of persons in each state," and the Supreme Court has long ruled that the "whole number" includes noncitizens.
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This means that, to some very uncertain extent, the backend benefit of the U.S. export subsidy might not be going to U.S. citizens at all, let alone in any sensibly apportioned manner.
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" CLUI, a nonprofit since 1994, incorporates education, art, and research across many areas of interest to inspire the "increase and diffusion of information about how the nation's lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived.
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Its financial creditors range from banks to mutual funds and pension funds to deposit holders, which bankers and lawyers say could lead to conflicts over how any recoveries from the process are apportioned.
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Its data informs many state and federal decisions, but one of its most important roles is determining how seats in Congress will be apportioned among the states, and thus in the Electoral College.
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In the Sutton Place neighborhood, an 1,800-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath apartment with sweeping city and river views and well-apportioned rooms in a postwar, full-service high-rise.
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Because the Constitution did not establish the Senate as a representative body like the House, apportioned according to population, a majority of 51 senators does not come close to representing 51 percent of Americans.
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Less well known than such full-length masterworks as "The Homecoming" and "No Man's Land," Pinter's shorter efforts (poems included) have been apportioned across seven mixed bills that will roll out through Feb. 23.
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This map comes closest to the one that would result if we apportioned congressional seats only among eligible voters, although some have called for using even narrower criteria, like registered voters or voter turnout.
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That sum will be apportioned on a county-by-county basis, with farmers in a given county being provided a payment at a single rate based upon acres planted, regardless of what crops they grow.
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Make sure credit is more fairly apportioned than it is now, because we still want to think it's like the tall guy in the room with good teeth that did the project, for some reason.
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During the convention, the framers spent far more of the summer of 1787 debating how the legislature would be apportioned and selected, the role and election of the president, and the treatment and future of slavery.
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The country's election commission decided to change the formula by which it apportioned party-list seats after the vote had taken place, robbing anti-junta parties of a slim majority in favour of tiny, biddable outfits.
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For example, when manager Jose Mourinho went on to join Manchester United in 2016, he, the club and agent Jorge Mendes signed a contract which apportioned the agent's fee evenly between the club and the manager.
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The USTR's office reached out to automakers over the weekend to seek input about how the cap will work and how the vehicle quota will be apportioned, an auto industry executive briefed on the matter said.
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A five-night vacation with a 13-to-18-month-old, for example, produces an $89 box of two-dozen drugstore-aisle staples, all apportioned to be used while traveling, including 36 diapers and disposable bibs.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, instead, looks to be the kingmaker in Syria, after signing a deal with Turkey that apportioned influence in northern Syria and could determine the future of the country after years of civil war.
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Finally, liability must be apportioned, and criminal action must result so as to restore public trust that has been damaged by the failure of a whole "stakeholder" class that is responsible for what has happened debt-wise.
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The Iowa Supreme Court sided with the League and other complainants, noting that our plan proved that it was possible to create a plan with districts more equally apportioned by population when not considering incumbent residency in redistricting.
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But since then, DFJ partners have taken over all but three of Jurvetson's board seats and apportioned the portfolio between them, according to DFJ's website, with at least two of his seats going to Heidi Roizen, for instance.
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Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden outlined in letters and other documents how at least $29 million of his funds and possessions should be apportioned after his death, requesting that most of it be used to continue global jihad.
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He was elated when a judge apportioned him over $180,000 of the award in 2015, but three years later, he wonders if he will ever receive anything from the two brothers who owned the restaurant, Phuman and Lakhvir Singh.
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None of the investigations has apportioned blame for the accident, or explained how an advanced U.S. warship with sophisticated radars and trained lookouts sailing in clear, albeit dark, conditions was struck by a vessel more than three times its size.
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In the nonconforming Maine and Nebraska, two electoral votes are apportioned to the winner of the popular vote, and the rest of the votes are given to the winner of the popular votes in each of the states' congressional districts.
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And the familiar byplay of procedural blame-assigning and briskly apportioned punishment likewise exerts a pronounced appeal for any viewer weaned on the All the President's Men model of executive accountability won through the patient scandal-reporting of elite journalistic institutions.
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Senator Richard C. Shelby, Republican of Alabama and the incoming chairman, has been assuring colleagues that he wants to return to the old ways of bringing individual bills to the floor — though floor time is ultimately apportioned by Mr. McConnell.
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At Blackburn, as at Blackpool, Charlton, Hull and so many other places up and down England, much of the blame is apportioned to the country's soccer authorities, accused of failing to protect clubs from owners without their best interests at heart.
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Related: A Rape Survivor in India Must Balance a Heavy Rock on Her Head to Prove Her Purity The agency was keen to stress that the increased risk of certain online dating behaviors did not mean blame should be apportioned to victims.
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If Prince also left no will and no surviving offspring of his own, as appears to be the case, his estate under Minnesota law would be apportioned in equal shares to his siblings and the nearest surviving descendants of any siblings now dead.
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Most episodes are not preoccupied with the familiar tune—the terror of families being ripped apart by deportation—and instead search elsewhere; they juggle the reality of citizenship, of what it means to make a big life from the little you've been apportioned.
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Even if it made a profit, tax experts say, the income it would pay out would be apportioned to so many members that actual taxes would be very low relative to those that would be owed by a single profit-making entity.
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Speaking to reporters after departing Qatar, Pompeo declined to detail how the $1 billion in aid cuts would be apportioned or whether he set a deadline for Ghani and Abdullah, who had served as the country's chief executive, to settle their dispute.
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Nonfiction Julian Fellowes may be adapting the "Downton Abbey" formula to a stateside setting, but why wait for his late-19th-century period piece, "The Gilded Age," when you can escape right now into the well-apportioned drawing rooms of the past?
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If Prince left no will and no surviving offspring of his own, as his sister stated, then his estate under Minnesota law would be apportioned in equal shares to his siblings and the nearest surviving descendents of any siblings now dead, according to court papers.
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The Fourteenth Amendment requires that "representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state"—and the Supreme Court has long held that this includes citizens, green-card holders and undocumented immigrants alike.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices on Wednesday grilled a lawyer who defended the way state congressional districts are apportioned, a design opponents have challenged as illegally skewed to benefit Republicans who hold 13 of its 18 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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As Professor Emeritus Carl Thayer, a Vietnam specialist from the University of New South Wales, explains, the waters around Vanguard Bank lie within the Vietnamese "exclusive economic zone" (EEZ), a 85033-nautical-mile offshore belt of water space apportioned to coastal states by UNCLOS.
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He suggested that if fault were to be apportioned, some should fall on the consignors, who didn't understand the contract they'd signed, as well as the New Hampshire attorney general's office, whose investigation, which started last year, forced him to spend money on lawyers.
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Surrounded by a circle of loyal aides who had served him for decades and who were known collectively as the Firm, he apportioned his long days at the office (he was the first President to keep a telephone on his desk) into series of eight-minute appointments.
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Under the form, funds would be required to report the employer identification numbers of each business in which the fund has a stock or partnership interest, the census tract in which the business has property, and the value of the investment apportioned to each census tract.
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Yet to be worked out is how an $800 million pot of money set aside in the government's certified 10-year fiscal recovery plan will be apportioned between competing claims including those of constitutionally backed general obligation debt (GO) and sales-tax backed bonds known as COFINA.
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This continuing resolution would allow a technical adjustment in how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services allocate funds; that means states that are in dire straits because they have already — or are close to — depleting their CHIP funding will be apportioned additional federal dollars through Dec.
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Now, multiply that kind of math by the whole state of California, which has 415 pledged delegates — 271 apportioned based on the results in the state's 53 congressional districts and 144 awarded by statewide vote — and you can see how those small gains really start to add up.
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"For claims to be handled as swiftly and smoothly as possible, it will be vital that insurers and other parties with a legitimate interest have access to the relevant in-vehicle data that establishes the facts of an accident, so that liability can be correctly apportioned," said Jeanmart.
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In an alarming tactical setback for Mr. Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported last week that he might harvest fewer delegates from his primary win in Louisiana than Senator Ted Cruz, whose campaign has aggressively picked off delegates who are uncommitted or apportioned to candidates no longer in the race.
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The function of the room wasn't conterminous with what was done in it; people worked on their computer in their living room, and then moved into the kitchen (presumably also with their computer), and thus constantly navigated their own, normally apportioned house, itself not necessarily arranged for openness and mobility.
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Unlike the proportional systems used in several other European countries, where seats are apportioned according to the share each party receives of the overall vote, British elections are "first past the post": Each voter has one vote, and the single candidate who gets the most votes in each constituency wins.
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The irony is that for the Founding Fathers, the House of Representatives was supposed to be the most democratic institution, reflecting volatile changes in popular opinion, while the institutions of Senate (apportioned by state) and president (selected by the Electoral College) would assure some degree of stability and moderate change.
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It's too early to tell if I've lost anything from this tradeoff—I'd say about 70% of my time on Instagram is apportioned to my alt account—although I have noticed two natural adjustments in my consumption habits to my main profile: the most obvious being, I spend substantially less time liking photos.
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The census today helps determine key aspects of the nation's representative democracy: how many seats in Congress will be apportioned among the states, and thus in the Electoral College; the distribution of billions of dollars in federal funds; and how state and congressional districts will be drawn in the next redistricting cycle.
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The Obama campaign put a patient, insistent Berman on a conference call with reporters to explain that Obama had actually won for technical reasons: National delegates are apportioned by congressional district, and Obama had been spending a lot of time — at Berman's urging and somewhat to the confusion of the press corps — in the state's rural north, which he won.
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Yes, a portion of the blame should go to those young people who simply did not care enough to vote, but more importantly, blame also needs to be apportioned to the lack of political education in schools and the fact that so many politicians routinely ignore young people or target them ineffectively -- and then expect them to turn out to support their causes at key moments.
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" Later the same month, Man City's head of finance, Andrew Widdowson, acknowledged in a letter to the tax authority that while Man City had paid Dein "to influence the player into joining us" in 2011, the club also accepted that "as you point out, Darren Dein is the player's agent and with that in mind we accept that a proportion of the fee should be apportioned as Dein acting for the player.
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But the Constitution still requires an "actual enumeration" to determine how many members of Congress each state will get, so that's what the census does: Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers [...] The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.
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The census counts: immigrant laborers in shadows fueling our economy; tribal members purged from voter rolls because of the wrong address on a driver's license; ex-cons who have paid their debt to society; high school students, whether marching for life or gun control, but frustrated that they turn 18 after election day; factory workers in the rust belt, coal miners in Appalachia, and farmers in the heartland, who can vote because they were counted and apportioned representation; and children who will one day inherit this country — in other words, we the people, are all counted.
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