Sentence examples for degree of devolution from inspiring English sources

Ms Kelly was ambiguous about the exact degree of devolution, saying only that "leadership and accountability arrangements are commensurate with the powers on offer".

The senior Labour politician said wholesale reform of the UK was needed as the nation is united in name only, with a much greater degree of devolution required for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the English regions.

And if we are going to improve even further teachers' qualifications and recognition, then a considerably greater degree of devolution to the profession has to go along with it.

But he fell foul, mainly about the permissible degree of devolution, both of the director-general, Charles Curran, and of his own predecessor, then managing director of BBC-TV, Alasdair Milne.

This sort of thing happens in any country, but the degree of devolution makes it more sensitive in Spain.For a truly spectacular case of regional uproar, look at the national water plan unveiled in September, a huge scheme to transfer a cubic kilometre of water a year from (mainly) the Ebro, in the north, to the dry south-east.

But there is no doubt that Spanish decentralisation has, with minimal post-Franco coercion, kept the country together.Italy, too, is contemplating some degree of devolution as the cold-war glue of old parties and their loyalties to a Roman centre has gone.

Brown said wholesale reform of the UK was needed as the nation is united in name only, with a much greater degree of devolution required for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the English regions.

Both the degrees of devolution and the exact timing of the elections are still to be determined by the national constituent assembly.

Many argue, for example, that a degree of political devolution would help to defuse the bloody Muslim insurgency in the four southernmost provinces of the country.

"The point of devolution is for local politicians to deliver.

After ten years of devolution in Mali, varying degrees of local government accountability are appearing.