| At Blackpool yesterday, the shadow home secretary, Oliver Letwin, promised a radical counter-revolution against this creeping centralisation. |
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| Journalists had struck for one day over cuts and the centralisation of subbing across a number of titles. |
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| The modern centralised Sagha is largely a result of the development of the modern nation-state and the consequential centralisation of political power. |
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| This centralisation is intended, among other things, to improve client service by providing service that is uniform and first rate. |
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| The pros and cons of a greater centralisation of transport policy within the European Union will be discussed. |
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| Moreover, this proposal for a directive would lay the foundations for still greater centralisation in the future. |
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| We condemn this policy, which involves centralisation in order to disarm us further, and we obviously voted against it. |
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| Redemption orders received after these order centralisation deadlines will be processed on the following Valuation Day. |
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| On the one side stood for instance France, with a high degree of centralisation, and on the other Switzerland. |
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| It does not have the centralisation of religious authority which can both unify people around a coherent set of values and prevent the emergence of extremes. |
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| The various planets have united under one political umbrella after a bitter war that saw those planets that craved independence crushed under the heel of centralisation. |
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| If we do not want heavy centralisation we must have small systems, systems where the web of relationships can be self-ordering, self-correcting and organic. |
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| The secretary of the Southwark diocese explains that centralisation of stipendiary obligations has taken place in conjunction with devolution of more day-to-day duties. |
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| Many participants pointed to the laborious bureaucratic procedures extended over many years by the one-party system and centralisation. |
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| The concentration and centralisation of capital are two of the results of such accumulation. |
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| Where should the balance be between centralisation and decentralisation? |
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| We MEPs were not entirely happy with that, but it was the right thing to do in that she was trying to take on board the concerns of the Member States, which feared ill-founded centralisation. |
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| Historians have not yet truly come to terms with the weaknesses of that muddled era of centralisation and Thatcherite socialism. |
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| The centralisation of 'Railbarge' traffic allows optimisation of the operational model, and an increase in revenue, as handling undertaken there up till then by third parties could be integrated into the group. |
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| This sense of vowel reduction may occur by means other than vowel centralisation, however. |
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| What balance can be found between centralisation and decentralisation of the measures which govern territorial cooperation activities, the nature and specific characteristics of the limits of which are now agreed? |
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| Within Britain itself there was also more centralisation, and industry tended to drift to the south, leaving Scotland as a neglected fringe. |
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| Both arose from attempts to resist centralisation and assert Breton constitutional exceptions to tax. |
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| However, this is also an area in which the European institutions have least power, although they are very fond of finicky regulations in other areas where centralisation is not required. |
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| It is as much a challenge to the left, and our commitment to the state and centralisation, as it is to the right with its unquestioning embrace of the market. |
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| To paraphrase a famous saying on centralisation, it could be said that the European Union is threatened with apoplexy at the centre and paralysis at the extremities. |
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| Excessive centralisation, where we are dependent on Westminster for funding which usually comes with one-size-fits-all conditions attached, is hampering our performance. |
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| Ever greater fragmentation and atomisation, more schools with unqualified teachers and no local oversight, the centralisation of power in an unwieldy Department for Education can only exacerbate the risk of further problems. |
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| Much of the reigns of Henry IV, Louis XIII and the early years of Louis XIV were focused on administrative centralisation. |
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| Financial centralisation. The team for the financial management of the group's headquarters was strengthened so as to centralise this function within the group. |
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| Root and branch changes are essential, in which the primacy of the nation state should be reestablished and Brussels centralisation reversed, with wide-ranging powers repatriated to national governments and parliaments. |
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| As part of a drive to reduce media centralisation in London, the BBC and ITV have moved much of their program production to MediaCityUK in Salford. |
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| It is divided into a number of diverse lineages, sects and denominations, referred to as traditions, each with its own organizational structure and level of centralisation. |
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