Sentence examples for concentration of authority from inspiring English sources

We oppose the concentration of authority in the federal government, urging its devolution to states and localities.

The solution to excessive partisanship in the House is not to tolerate increased concentration of authority within the majority party leadership.

An argument, angry and sorrowful, by a Roman Catholic who thinks the concentration of authority in the pope has led to ever more lamentable cover-ups of mistakes and assertions of things that are not so.

That pooling implies not just the concentration of wealth but also the concentration of authority, influence, proximity to decision-makers, and all the other tactical tools it takes to get things done the way you want them done.

He emphasized the need for a federal government that is "limited and balanced and against the ever increasing concentrations of authority in Washington" that encourages personal responsibility among American citizens while pledging his candidacy to "victory for principle and to presenting an opportunity for the American people to choose".

It found a "concentration of all authority" in the former chairman.

"Such concentration of power in regulatory authorities is unprecedented in European democracies, and it harms media freedom," its media freedom representative, Dunja Mijatovic, said in a statement issued late last year.

Kilkivan is about 50km west of Gympie, which gained a reputation for one of Australia's highest concentration of firearm ownership as authorities appealed for weapons to be surrendered in amnesties following Howard government laws to restrict guns.

In New York City in the early 90's, he testified, "the weapon of choice" was "a small hand-held device, a suitcase bomb," directed at areas "with a high concentration of population". If the authorities even considered the possibility of a car or truck bomb, he said, they expected that it would be detonated outside the building, not in a garage.

The traditional autonomy of the states was only destroyed under the Nazis in the drive towards national "coordination" (Gleichschaltung) and a concentration of power in a central authority in Berlin.

Therefore, it is against the concentration of power in Washington beyond the authority needed that the conservative takes his stand.