| Prior to 1917 the Bolsheviks had opposed the concept of federalism, preferring regional autonomy within a unitary state. |
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| The authors begin by discussing the simplest kind of lawmaking factory, a unitary state with pluralistic political institutions. |
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| You have a central unitary state now where power is all located in the capital, and that power must be shared over time. |
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| If the government insisted on a unitary state that would Islamize and Arabize the entire country, the south would demand independence. |
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| The inter-provincial demographic composition, thus, rules out a unitary state or even a quasi-federal state. |
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| The Netherlands is a unitary state governed by a central body. |
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| The latest Greek bailout is the moment when continental Europe finds itself forced to transmogrify from a loose federation into a brittle unitary state. |
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| The French, less sure of themselves, wanted a unitary state and community of feeling. |
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| Second, the military works to protect the unitary state of Indonesia by crushing any local expressions of resistance to state authority. |
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| Indonesia is prone to collapse despite claims that it is a unitary state. |
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| Formally the United Kingdom remains a unitary state, but Scotland now has its own legislative Parliament and Wales a National Assembly with wide executive powers. |
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| The debate has arisen in response to what is generally understood as the failure of the centralized unitary state. |
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| Let me remind once again to avoid any mistakes: We are talking about France which the indictment points out to Turkey as the best example of unitary state. |
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| Given Indonesia's delicate democratic transition and the continuing influence that the army played in politics, no Indonesian politician would ever say in public that Indonesia was anything other than a unitary state. |
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| He asks Dirk PETERS whether, if an EGTC is established, it would be more advantageous to locate the registered office in a federal state or a unitary state. |
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| France's unitary state does not have the jurisdictional complexities that necessitated constitutional change in Belgium to provide rights regarding social exclusion. |
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| The unitary state established in 1830 was converted in the 1990s into a true federal state within which coexist Walloons, Flemish and Bruxellois, as well as a German-speaking minority. |
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| Constitutionally, the UK is a de jure unitary state, its parliament and government in Westminster. |
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| The unitary state was governed by a single parliament and government that was based in Westminster. |
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| Another example of shared and pooled sovereignty is the Acts of Union 1707 which created the unitary state now known as the United Kingdom. |
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| The Netherlands is a representative parliamentary democracy organised as a unitary state. |
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| Aruba, with its own constitution, is a representative parliamentary democracy organised as a unitary state. |
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| Sint Maarten is a centralised unitary state, with similar administrative characteristics to Aruba. |
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| At the top was the High King, who received tribute from the other kings but did not rule Ireland as a unitary state. |
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| Also, the Treaty of Union of 1707 was important in creating the unitary state which exists today. |
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| The UK was formed as a unitary state, though Scotland and England retained separate legal systems. |
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| In a unitary state, sovereignty resides in the state itself, and the constitution determines this. |
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| Instead, the Kingdom is said to have characteristics of a federal state, a confederation, a federacy, and a devolved unitary state. |
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| The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is an example of a unitary state. |
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| Whilst the unitary state has a pyramidal structure governed from the top, the structure of a federation is more star shaped, gravitating around a federal core, which provides advice and which in turn receives feedback. |
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| It is all vaguely reminiscent of the good old days in the USSR when artistic merit was measured by an artist's promotion of the values of the unitary state, by his adulation of the government's achievements. |
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| Republicans favour a centralized unitary state, majoritarian or winner-takes-all political institutions, and a monistic conception of national sovereignty. |
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| Cyprus has to stay a unitary state and enjoy its sovereignty, territorial integrity, total independence, without foreign interventions and interferences to its internal affairs. |
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| Mr Ocalan himself says he now favours a unitary state. |
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| Prior to 1970 Belgium was a unitary state. |
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| They see Britain as a unitary state when it never has been. |
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| We fear that in a possibly unitary state, we would see a permanent struggle for power with regard to the question which ethnic group would take control and who would assume a subordinate role. |
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| The member for Outremont compared our federal corporate income tax rate in a federal state to that of a single corporate income tax rate of a unitary state like Sweden. |
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| Today, the trend is towards globalization, removing tariff and non-tariff barriers and free trade, not using orders in council to regulate a continental market led by a unitary state like Canada. |
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| In 1950, United States of Indonesia dissolved itself into a unitary state and began to divide its component area into provinces. |
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| Brazil, on the other hand, has experienced both the federal and the unitary state during its history. |
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| A unitary state is sometimes one with only a single, centralised, national tier of government. |
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| The distinction between a federation and a unitary state is often quite ambiguous. |
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| Constitutionally, the United Kingdom is de jure a unitary state with one sovereign parliament and government. |
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| Sweden is a unitary state, currently divided into 21 counties and 290 municipalities. |
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| China is the largest unitary state in the world by both population and land area. |
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| The United Kingdom has traditionally been governed as a unitary state by the Westminster Parliament in London. |
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| Independence was achieved in 1822 with the creation of the Empire of Brazil, a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system. |
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| It differs from a federation in that each constituent state has an independent government, whereas a unitary state is united by a central government. |
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| As a unitary state, power is concentrated in the central government. |
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| It can be considered the opposite of another system, the unitary state. |
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| As the power of the Federal government has increased, some people have perceived a much more unitary state than they believe the Founding Fathers intended. |
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| The UK is a unitary state with a devolved system of government. |
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| The United Kingdom is a unitary state under a constitutional monarchy. |
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| It is constitutionally a unitary state, divided into nine departments. |
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