Sentence examples for a further centralisation from inspiring English sources
This bill is the ideological outlet for the Tories' obsession with school structures: a part of their plan to convert every school to an academy in a further centralisation of powers in Whitehall.
Some argue that a further centralisation of powers in the EU, combined with more powers for the European Parliament, will in time create genuine pan-European politics.Waiting for a European demosThat is highly dubious.
Similarly, Article 9, proclaiming that EU law "shall have primacy over the law of the member-states", may well jolt those many Europeans who do not follow these matters closely, but it has actually been true for over 40 years.Nonetheless, those who fear a further centralisation of power in Brussels have grounds for alarm.
The newspaper said that instead of taking steps towards further centralisation and "mistaking a unified Europe with a standardised Europe", Kohl wanted European leaders to pay more respect to national and regional differences.
Many of these (eg, "double majority" voting, a smaller European Commission, a single foreign-policy post instead of two, more say for national parliaments) will be clear improvements that also steer clear of further centralisation.
Yet Mr Major's own 1997 election manifesto called for a flexible European Union, and said it would use treaty changes to devolve powers to member states, and block further centralisation of decision-making.
Mr Prescott, however, thinks that this means further centralisation and reckons that he is winning arguments in the cabinet against this move.But local councils feel that they are losing their argument.
The researchers acknowledge the potential that the greater reductions in stroke mortality in London may have been influenced by variations in stroke severity, travel distances and public awareness of stroke but their findings still add to the rationale for further centralisation in Greater Manchester".
We are not aware of any reliable data supporting further centralisation of delivery of babies born before 27 weeks' gestation in England or further improvement in the condition of babies at birth.
Thirdly, the estimated costs of cancer treatment in the hypothetical counterfactual scenario of no screening do not take account of further centralisation of treatment facilities if the burden of disease was higher.
Maximilian I, like other Holy Roman Emperors before and after him, had to face struggles with other powerful princes in the empire and he thus sought to secure his position and the imperial monarchy by furthering centralisation.
