Sentence examples for devolve control from inspiring English sources

And then there was Nick Clegg in 2008, promising to "devolve control to councils, communities, families, parents and pupils".

Several governors, mostly Republicans, have declined to sign their own states' plans for implementing a new federal education law intended to devolve control to the states.

The scheme will no longer be strongly centralised, but will devolve control to various local entities.Happily, the British lesson has not been lost on American health reformers.

The proposal to devolve control of the health service in Greater Manchester to local oversight raises the prospect of political skills needing to be added to the repertoire of NHS management.

The Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw tweeted: The Local Government Association has also called for the chancellor, Philip Hammond, to devolve control of money for flood defences to ensure it is directed to exactly where it is needed.

If that's not accepted, we will devolve control over the work programme immediately on taking power, so Scotland has the tools it needs to put people back to work.

He devolved control of government-run schools to their head teachers, who were made more accountable.

In some cases, the local districts devolved control further, down to groups as small as 200 villagers.

They only serve to make an already risky activity – intoxication – riskier still by devolving control of production, supply and distribution to profit-driven gangsters.

While the precise legal implications of the amendment would need to be tested, philosophically it goes to the heart of the moves towards devolving control of the NHS.

Those would include detailed attainment measures for each school – attacked by critics as new league tables, and devolving control to schools and communities.