Sentence examples for centralised power from inspiring English sources

They centralised power and bought the loyalty of local interest groups.

The prime minister has centralised power to a degree unprecedented since the collapse of communism.

Labour's creation of a welfare state in the 1940s centralised power in the name of equality.

Wasn't it the Thatcher government who centralised power at the expense of local democracy?

They centralised power, eliminated rival parties, attacked religion, established secret police forces and sent dissenters to labour camps.

He has centralised power in the Vatican where, in his dotage, it is increasingly exercised by reactionary cardinals.Here the biographer almost gives way to despair.

They insisted on a manual counting of the votes, for fear that the Mbeki camp would rig the result.Mr Mbeki tried to rebut accusations that he does not tolerate dissent and has centralised power.

According to the International Energy Agency IEAA), which the minister quoted as an authority on energy poverty, centralised power sources such as coal rely on expensive grid infrastructure to deliver power.

The postcolonial independence struggle to re-establish centralised power in such countries has run rough shod over such traditional divides and control mechanisms as it has sought to control its new domain denoted by government ink.

In September, Xi will pay a state visit to the United States, as a president who has ruthlessly centralised power while embarking on an ambitious project to revitalise Communist rule and to secure the party's future.

The other candidates head loose amalgams, lacking both ideology and discipline.The second job will be to rebuild Peru's institutions, after a decade in which Mr Fujimori and Mr Montesinos centralised power in their own hands.The third task will be to expand an economy that is shrinking as investors recoil from political uncertainty.