Sentence examples for being devolved from the from inspiring English sources
Over that period once-mighty town halls with distinctive municipal identities (such as Birmingham's, pictured) withered in influence as councils became more and more the agents of Whitehall, rather than of local people.The government's critics say that what is really being devolved from the centre are painful spending cuts and some of the attendant unpopularity.
In 1999, responsibility for drug-testing was devolved from the International Olympic Committee to the newly created World Anti-Doping Agency.
He believed in pluralistic government, and in particular that power should be devolved from the federal government to the states.
Under the federal government's "one-stop-shop" policy aimed at cutting "green tape", approval of the project was devolved from the federal Department of the Environment to the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (Nopsema).
Under the new dispensation, power was devolved from the National Government to 47 newly decentralized counties.
In Uganda's decentralized health care system, districts are devolved from the centre, meaning that decisions about health worker deployment take place at the district level.
The range of new powers being devolved from Westminster to Holyrood in the coming months will have as profound an impact on the lives of Scots as the creation of the Scottish Parliament did 17 years ago, the Scotland Secretary will say on Monday.
Ed Miliband announced that a Labour government would double the amount being devolved from Whitehall, transferring control of public services down to local level.
Mr Davies is critical of the model of income tax powers in the process of being devolved from Westminster.
Mr Davies is critical of the model of income tax powers in the process of being devolved from Westminster to Cardiff Bay.
Mr Davies has already been involved in a public disagreement with Welsh Secretary David Jones over the model of income tax powers in the process of being devolved from Westminster to Cardiff Bay.
