Sentence examples for a centralist state from inspiring English sources

But Galicia is a warning for any politicians who still hanker after a centralist state: they have lost.

The market cannot spread freedom fairly, a centralist micromanaging state enforces conformity.

Pujol understood that under a centralist Spanish state, with 37% of the Catalan population being Spanish immigrant, he would need to help the new population identify as Catalan.

Not the old socialism of command economy and centralist state.

As the Mobutu regime launched a centralist restructuring of the Congolese state from 1965, South Kasai was one of the few provinces which was retained.

A centralist in a nation that was decentralizing.

Santa Anna soon transformed himself into a centralist caudillo (dictator), ultimately codifying his about-face by replacing the 1824 constitution with a new document, the Seven Laws (1836), that formally put power in the hands of the landed aristocracy (with property qualifications established for holding office and voting) and reconstituted the states as military districts.

In 1833 he began the first of five stints as president, transforming from a champion of Mexico's 1824 federalist constitution into a centralist dictator.

But even these critics seldom called for a return to a centralist form of socialism; instead, they were more likely to advocate a decentralist form of market socialism.

"For most of the country's life it has been a federal republic that in reality is a centralist monarchy," says Enrique Krauze, the historian.

The new governor saw clearly the ambiguities and dangers of such widespread support, and, although he was identified as a federalist, he ruled as a centralist, with Buenos Aires his main power base.