Sentence examples for centralising powers from inspiring English sources

In reality these measures are meant to be of much less significance than the centralising powers of the NHS commissioning board and the new roles for Monitor in setting up a market in healthcare, but in the right circumstances they could be the entree for local resistance to market encroachment.

"However, the education and adoption bill back in the House of Commons today goes in the opposite direction – further centralising powers in Whitehall and fragmenting our schools system rather than giving local areas the power and responsibility to ensure a step change in school results".

In 1982, Paul Biya became president of Cameroon and over time he created a one-party state, centralising powers.

Any Brexit difficulties "pale into insignificance against the prospect of remaining shackled to a declining European Union which is desperately trying to grab more and more centralising powers in the impossible attempt to manage the growing roar of rejection from its own member citizens.

With the centralising power of Rome, religion also became more centralised and politicised – as did, Whitmarsh argues, atheism.

He is centralising power like crazy.

Infuriated by the antics of left-wing local councils, she ended up centralising power in Whitehall.

But most were designed to reshape the document into a Soviet-style constitution, centralising power.

It creates at least five new national bodies to manage the NHS, centralising power into unelected bodies.

If it continues to refuse an external audit, suspicions will grow that targets are really about centralising power.

Is that Nunn's fault for not inculcating a next generation, instead centralising power close to his chest?