Sentence examples for centralism and from inspiring English sources

Now the planning situation has gone from localism to centralism and is pretty disastrous.

Yet some assert that the purges and reorganisations are increasing centralism and threatening democracy.

It is confronting centralism and bureaucracy; remote authority and alienation within the actual party itself.

So we will have still more focus on structures, standardised testing, Whitehall centralism and teacher de-professionalisation.

In contrast to Labour's instinctive centralism and authoritarianism, the Lib Dems want to get decision-making out of Westminster and Whitehall, and closer to the people.

As a federalist, I had no hesitation in lauding the supranational aspirations of European integration, and in stridently condemning the centralism and technocracy of much EU decision making.

Americans have long flirted with strains of anti-centralism and fears of concentrated power.

This is where we see the reality rather than the rhetoric: a head-on collision between localism and centralism, economic growth and sustainable development.

Along the way David Cameron gets painted as a democratic dinosaur and at last British politics can be released from the straitjacket of first-past-the-post centralism, tribalism and adversarialism.

According to Mao, democratic centralism "is centralized on the basis of democracy and democratic under centralized guidance.

It gives the impression of being a party that believes simultaneously in growth and deficit reduction, a greater role for the state and more competitive markets and is in favour of both localism and centralism.