Sentence examples for The centralism from inspiring English sources

Many European regionalists have long seen it as a natural ally against the centralism of nation-states.

That requires a constitutional revolution, to scatter power, move it out of London, away from the centralism of parliament, the civil service and the media.

As a federalist, I had no hesitation in lauding the supranational aspirations of European integration, and in stridently condemning the centralism and technocracy of much EU decision making.

Localism is a direct challenge to the centralism of the SNP who want to control or co-opt every part of Scottish life.

If Britain did indeed leave the EU to join America, there would be little challenge to balance the centralism and regulatory menace in Europe.

The document declared opposition to the centralism, authoritarian tendencies, and militarism of the new government.

Along the way David Cameron gets painted as a democratic dinosaur and at last British politics can be released from the straitjacket of first-past-the-post centralism, tribalism and adversarialism.

"It is about redesigning the entire system, from top to bottom, saving those positive achievements, including full sovereignty, while throwing away the disastrous economic apparatus of the state, the institutional centralism and all forms of intolerance, rigidity, and the abuse of power," Mr. Amuchastegui said.

The inflexible centralism of the Franco regime and its repression of any expression of regional difference, however, were instrumental in stimulating the development of a more radical nationalism among Basque youth in the 1950s.

Davies and Law represent a revival of the Independent Labour party whose early 20th century traditions of syndicalism and localism were later trampled by the managerialist centralism of the new interwar Labour party.

The degree to which the new centralism is already in place was confirmed last month by the edict sent out by the Home Office to chief probation officers telling them not to criticise the plan in the same week the same department was urging senior police managers to speak up in favour of its anti-terrorism bill.