Thus, the metropolitan area is decentralizing quickly, and its overall population trend is more favourable than those of its major constituent cities.
Noncentralized parties initially develop out of the constitutional arrangements of the federal compact, but once they have come into existence they tend to be self-perpetuating and to function as decentralizing forces in their own right.
The policy of decentralizing industry in the Paris region has promoted recent growth in Blois and other cities of the Loire Valley.
Two themes are constant in the administrative history of New York: tension between the city leadership and the superior authority of the state in the struggle for home rule, and the municipality's desire to contain the decentralizing tendencies caused by its component elements.
Anarchist, decentralizing, and libertarian, U.K. punk was drawn into the polarized politics of British society and by 1979 had self-destructed as a pop style.
In this capacity Tikhon adapted Russian ecclesiastical structure and worship to the local cultural milieu, decentralizing control, establishing several Russian Orthodox theological schools, and assisting with an English service book of the Russian Orthodox liturgy.
Even though the system of national grants-in-aid appears to have been designed as a means of decentralizing administration, the effect has been decidedly centralist, for the conditional character of the grants has allowed the federal government to exercise influence on state policies in fields that were once invulnerable to national intervention.
Dreux expanded rapidly as an industrial centre from the early 1960s largely as a result of Parisian firms decentralizing.
The decentralizing trend is accentuated by the fact that highway transportation encourages business and industry to move outward to sites where land is cheaper, where access by car and truck is easier than in crowded cities, and where space is available for the one-story structures that permit optimum use of modern materials-handling techniques.
But decentralizing forces, closely bound to regional interests, made themselves felt in the form of revolts led by the sons of Louis the German.
