The phrase "a form of devolution" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the transfer of power or authority from a central government to a local or regional level.
Example: "The new policy is seen as a form of devolution, allowing local governments to make decisions that better reflect the needs of their communities."
Alternatives: "a type of decentralization" or "a method of delegation".
It could even be a form of "devolution max" that is being proposed by the Liberal Democrats.
Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapakse, could offer the Tigers a form of devolution inside a unitary state and insist on the demobilising of their military arm.
He is also likely to tell Salmond he will not be allowed to ask a third question on the ballot paper, over a form of devolution stopping short of independence.
He is also likely to tell Salmond he will be forbidden from asking a third question on the ballot paper, over a form of devolution stopping short of independence.
After his defeat by Bobby Sands, West continued to be active in the Ulster Unionist Council, criticising his successor, James Molyneaux, for his failure to accept a form of devolution that would have strengthened Northern Ireland's local authorities through power-sharing with moderate Catholics.
He called for Wales to move to a form of devolution where powers are assumed to rest with the assembly in cases like this, unless legislation specifically rules this out.
The DUP said its scheme was not a return to the days of rolling devolution but was a form of "rising devolution".
Councillor Mike Connolly, Labour leader of Bury Council, said: "Those decisions need to be made in Greater Manchester and not Westminster, and I welcome any form of devolution to the city region.
It wants a straight yes-or-no referendum on independence, distrusting hints from Mr Salmond that he might put more than one question to Scottish voters, offering them not just independence but also a form of deep devolution that would leave little more than defence and foreign policy in British government hands.
"Another possibility is we try to create a future for ourselves, negotiate a greater form of devolution for ourselves".
The slow progress, through various "deals" processes, that has been made with a mild form of devolution, whereby local areas get a greater say over how new and existing resources recycled from the national level are used, is enough to warn us that the civil service does not surrender power easily.
