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The virulence of sectarianism here remains a major threat to the newly devolved institutions.
The legislation devolved substantial responsibility to the states for all federally funded transportation programs.
The virulence of sectarianism there remains a major threat to the newly devolved institutions.
What is clear is that Jakarta has devolved many powers to the municipalities.
The Governing Body, in its wisdom, devolved decision making for the trophy's route to its constituent bodies, the counties.
Issuing a message to unionists, he also urged them against alienating nationalists by collapsing the devolved institutions.
By reaching such a verdict, the jury did not have to pronounce on five other questions that devolved from that point.
Made of wax, the figures have devolved into effigies that exist in a hyperreal world in which time does not pass.
It makes the false assumption that the devolved parliament outranks Westminster, which made it and can unmake it, at will.
In lesser hands, it could easily have devolved into something dull and uninteresting.
Neil is at pains to stress he is not the oppositionist wrecker of the devolved parliament.
Interestingly, this has now devolved into a potential stoush between the Mayor and his Deputy.
Scotland has unfinished political business, with a devolved Parliament that pleases some and not others.
So our sessions devolved from bodywork to this bizarre form of primal therapy.
At a time when cereal marketing has devolved to price-cutting and me-too line extensions, that's an aggressive marketing push.
The trick is to extend the frontiers of devolved responsibility, without falling over the edge into separatism.
It also reflects their failure to accept that devolved and decentralised government is here to stay.
We need to step up the pace of engagement on the issues so devolved institutions can be established next year without delay.
From here on out, responsibility for my apprenticeship as a feeder devolved to me alone.
The citizens of the devolved parts of the U.K. have not been weighed down with an impossible burden of taxation.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Hillers, with only one rowlock, could not use his oars, so the work devolved entirely on me.
How strange was it, too, that it should have devolved upon me to pay him these last rites.
Least of all Stuart liked it when it devolved upon him to give Vyvyan the boot.
The matter of discovering and punishing the culprit devolved on Lambert alone.
The income devolved on me in consequence of Winslowe's incapability.
On the death of kamehameha, the kingdom devolved on his son Liholiho.
Upon me little by little had devolved the superintendence of affairs.
Mr Cairns said the Northern Powerhouse agenda is gathering momentum with significant powers being devolved to other areas the country.
Upon Hor Vastus devolved the delicate mission of organising a secret force of fighting-men sworn to follow John Carter wherever he might lead.
The execution of this abominable decree devolved upon the daroga of Mazenderan.
In a different submission, the Scottish Woodlot Association this week made the economic case for forestry management to be completely devolved to Scotland.
The son, a steady respectable young man, was amply provided for by the fortune of his mother, which had been large, and half of which devolved on him on his coming of age.
The responsibility of giving the lady away, devolved upon the Aged, which led to the clergyman's being unintentionally scandalized, and it happened thus.
He had even invented some, to which he had given fantastic names, and for whose manufacture he required diverse ingredients that it devolved upon Edna to procure for him.
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