Sentence examples for centralist from inspiring English sources

The previous year Sturgeon had conceded in an interview that as Labour shifted to the right, the SNP had, in turn, perhaps become rather "centralist and statist" in its outlook.

He is a city-dweller, a Whitehall centralist, a natural meddler, an interventionist at home and abroad.

While not seeking to impose a democratic centralist gagging order on Maginnis, Nesbitt has already sought to distance his party from the remarks.

Drawn up in the late 1970s in reaction against 40 years of centralist dictatorship, it already devolves wide powers to the country's 17 regions.

But Galicia is a warning for any politicians who still hanker after a centralist state: they have lost.

Catholic bishops, never friendly to the regime, published an unusually hard-hitting pastoral letter this month that laid the blame for the crisis squarely on the "totalitarian and centralist system".

In sum, said the two union bodies, the aim was to make sacking cheaper and easier, and no way would they negotiate about that.The background is one of several years of a steady slide in unemployment, but one that seems now to have levelled off (see chart); plus highly protective labour laws, born in Spain's centralist and less market-oriented past.

"We need to go much more local, much more accountable," Sir Ian Blair, deputy commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, said last month.The strangest convert to this new consensus is David Blunkett, the usually authoritarian and centralist home secretary.

Devolution of power was inevitable after the days of centralist dictatorship, when even regional languages were banned.

It appears that a number of senior mandarins have become increasingly troubled by the thought that Mr Brown will import his relentlessly centralist management style from the Treasury to Number 10.

"For most of the country's life it has been a federal republic that in reality is a centralist monarchy," says Enrique Krauze, the historian.