Sentence examples for devolved this from inspiring English sources

This would require new powers from government – until such time as those powers were devolved, this levy could be collected on a voluntary basis from tourists, she said.

It is -- it would be unfortunate to assume that the Legislature devolved this authority on its judiciary sub silentio; there is no specific reference to it.

Instead, the royal warrant devolved this power to the Company.

The League Covenant assigned the League the task of creating a disarmament plan for each state, but the Council devolved this responsibility to a special commission set up in 1926 to prepare for the 1932 34 World Disarmament Conference.

Although the Articles authorized a federal court to punish "piracies and felonies committed on the high seas," and the Congress of the Confederation in 1775 created the Court of Appeals in Prize Cases, Congress soon devolved this power to the states.

To devolve this task to a computer just doesn't make sense.

The plan is to devolve this task to local authorities, which are bound to take more account of local feelings.

Devolving this duty on to councils that are "free" to commission them for the benefit of their local community is a convenient trick.

Most people would rather devolve this sort of responsibility to the authorities.Moreover, Bitcoin may be useful for trading goods and services but it does not yet allow borrowing or lending.

Mr Powell countered that devolving this decision to the states would produce a chaotic patchwork of state-by-state rules and a deluge of lawsuits, adding to uncertainty and hitting investment.

Small business owners will benefit from the relief on business rates but the losers will be councils and users of council services, as the Treasury is devolving this revenue to them.