| Since just about anyone can make a citizen's arrest, many situations quickly devolve into free-for-alls. |
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| Yet another law was passed, in first reading, to devolve some powers of the central government to regional councils. |
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| Or should responsibility only devolve on two or three of them who bought the last rounds? |
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| They have legislated to expand trial by jury, devolve powers to local councils and ban the police from entering universities. |
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| Managements took steps to decentralise budgetary control and devolve the management of the labour process to establishment level. |
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| While credit for the good is claimed by both, accountability for the ills like rampant tree cutting does not devolve on either. |
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| Stray too far in one direction and you devolve into saccharine sentimentality, go the other direction and you risk crass exploitation. |
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| The governor's call for a non-binding referendum means this responsibility will ultimately devolve upon us. |
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| The counterpoint becomes increasingly intricate as the set progresses, but Frescobaldi never lets the music devolve into academic dryness. |
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| We expected more from this Government, which came to power promising to devolve power to the regions. |
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| The yes campaigners believe this is a unique opportunity to devolve power from Westminster to the region. |
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| We will continue to devolve power to our regions and localities wherever we can. |
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| The government claims regional assemblies would devolve power and decision-making. |
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| Behind the woolly talk of local powers and responsibilities is a failure to devolve real powers or funds to improve transport in the regions. |
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| So he proposes to devolve most policing issues to newly elected local police authorities, with the independence of chief constables enshrined in statute. |
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| By the Section 38 Order, this property would devolve to Highland. |
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| Shielding programs from Congressional oversight allows for small programs to devolve into gigantic, often bizarre, schemes that would never pass muster with Congress. |
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| In the absence of the above, the estate or the residuary estate shall devolve on the public treasury. |
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| Both reason and science devolve into Paul Ryan's first sight of an ultra-sound image, it seems. |
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| Labour needs to make clearer exactly how it proposes to devolve power and how far it is prepared to go. |
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| We want to devolve more responsibility to delegations and, where possible, to national authorities in the field. |
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| It was important to follow up the legislation that had been implemented and to devolve more authority on health to the local level. |
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| These are ingredients which, in our view, could devolve into violence and conflict and we should not let this situation continue to deteriorate. |
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| The federal government's ultimate goal was to attract and hold on to a skilled labour needed to devolve programs to communities. |
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| As part of the planning for the closure of the LRM Office, the Department decided to devolve the responsibility for legal risk management. |
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| Regarding public administration, he said that work was being done to devolve decision-making authority to district administrations. |
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| The plan was to develop a mechanism to devolve responsibility to the forestry industry for any deforestation beyond that level. |
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| If such interests devolve to a member, including by succession or gift, he shall renounce them or dispose thereof with haste. |
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| The Virtual Institute has begun to devolve the production and adaptation of teaching materials and economic research to members of the network. |
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| It also helps devolve current sovereign risk to the sector itself in anticipation of future international compliance obligations. |
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| There is a sensible way to devolve responsibility for health care, but it should not involve simply dumping onto existing structures. |
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| So the problem seems to devolve into a case of societal vision and the political will to translate the vision into action. |
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| Unless we devolve powers to county level and abolish the quangos, we will fail to energise local government to the challenges of the 21st century. |
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| Why is it always that responsibilities like this devolve on me? |
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| Everyone knew that that reality could easily, indeed would likely, devolve into the sectarian disaster we see now. |
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| This will, inevitably, devolve into the comedian freaking out and crying on the floor. |
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| Politics has a tendency to devolve into juvenile playground taunts and smears. |
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| It takes far less than 46 days for a teachable moment to devolve into an airing of fetid undercurrents from the American id. |
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| Ok, that didn't take long to devolve into totally pointless snark. |
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| He further noted that the announcement by the federal government in 1999 that it would not devolve federal co-op programs to the province is important for more than just the co-ops. |
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| Recently, the international community has sought to devolve more responsibility for conflict prevention, peacemaking and peace-keeping to regional and subregional organizations. |
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| By November, it had made a commitment to devolve further powers to Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles in the event of independence. |
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| But the minister, constitutionally, has the right, so it's up to the minister to devolve some decision-making authority to boards or whatever if we're going to retain a competitive fishery. |
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| The WASH sectors should keep pace with broader decentralisation reforms and devolve responsibilities as well as adequate resources to lower tiers of government administration. |
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| Theresa Villiers, the Northern Ireland Secretary, said if the parties ratified the agreement brokered today legislation could be put through parliament in January to devolve corporation tax poweres to the region. |
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| Wood said a future Plaid Welsh government would seek an agreement with the UK government to devolve the Welsh constitution – including the right to hold binding referendums – to the Welsh assembly. |
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| This special session should not be allowed to devolve into a platform for vituperative criticism just as every effort is being made to find a mechanism to bring the conflict to a halt. |
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| Because if you or your common law spouse dies intestate, the property of the deceased will devolve to the children, if you have any, or to the deceased's family, not to the surviving spouse. |
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| We hear from people who suggest that somehow we have allowed this mission to devolve into more of a combat mission and yet people do not describe what that exactly means. |
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| We must resist the temptation to devolve into name calling and one-sidedness, and seek to form nuanced and rigorous opinions on this incredibly thorny issue. |
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| And plans to devolve budgets from trusts to family GPs is a Labour version of the Tories' derided GP fundholder scheme, say opponents. |
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| Horrible is the end which awaits the Harpies of the execrable Celaeno, which is to frightfully devolve within the Sub-World until petrifying and reducing themselves into cosmic dust. |
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| However, as African states finally became independent, they jealously guarded their sovereignty and were reluctant to devolve any power to a supranatural governing body. |
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| The Federation says it would be possible to devolve police powers in Wales without devolving other parts of the criminal justice system. |
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| The statement or record shall refer in particular to any obligation that may devolve on a member of the staff of Europol or any other person to replace the item in question. |
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| As a result, there appears to be a considerable gap between what the Indian organizations expect and how much the Department is prepared to devolve. |
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| The public may soon lose sight that the improved service at the Vancouver Airport is the result of federal action to devolve its operations in order to improve service. |
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| Politicians would be very happy to devolve responsibility for choices to citizens at a local level, because they want to share difficult decisions. |
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| In practice, the difference is minor as Parliament is responsible for all the powers on both lists and must give its consent to devolve them. |
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| He was the one at the uncalm eye of the storm, and a little blame must necessarily devolve to him. |
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| As things stand it is difficult to see how transport would be possible without using these systems, since customs authorities would be quite unable to carry out the additional duties that would devolve to them. |
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| But he was also asked what he would do to devolve powers to the English regions, following the promises made to Scotland during the referendum campaign. |
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| There is a need to devolve, democratise, strengthen and make government at the regional and local levels more representative and independent of Westminster and Whitehall. |
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| Employers eventually would devolve responsibility for health insurance to their employees by giving them the money the companies currently pay to insurance companies. |
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| A discussion about politics may devolve into a shouting match. |
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| Community leaders hope that the new government will devolve more power to the community itself. |
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| However, under the terms of the Scotland Acts, Westminster agreed to devolve some of its responsibilities over Scottish domestic policy to the Scottish Parliament. |
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