'devolves' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb that means to transfer power or responsibility to someone or something else. Example: The CEO devolved some of his duties to his trusted employees in order to focus on more important tasks. In this sentence, 'devolved' is used to indicate a transfer of responsibility or power from the CEO to his employees.
On foreign policy, that role devolves on Carl Bildt, the impressive and much-travelled foreign minister, once himself prime minister.
As the film devolves into recycled bits of philosophy and bad puns, a viewer begins to suspect that Woody Allen has spent the past 20 years locked in a basement with only his own oeuvre for entertainment.
Drawn up in the late 1970s in reaction against 40 years of centralist dictatorship, it already devolves wide powers to the country's 17 regions.
As the world of Lenny and Eunice devolves into chaos and warfare, Mr Shteyngart can't help but find a note of hope in the muck.
They are in no doubt which one they prefer: Labour wins re-election, Britain devolves, shares sovereignty and takes a positive role in the leadership of Europe.
Keynes's insight was that capitalist economies themselves intrinsically generate radical uncertainty, there is no natural equilibrium state, and the role of government should be to create confidence in a marketplace whose nature devolves periodically into chaos.
If we start allowing different parts to break away, it will be dismembered before we know where we are".Mr Habibie's administration has tried to discourage separatism by drawing up a new law which devolves more power to the provinces.
Discussions on creating a more federal Iraq that devolves more power are likely to be necessary.
Rather, the BBB devolves responsibility for choosing its investments to private-sector expertise by allowing the Angel CoFund board, composed of independent bankers and investors, to make the investment decisions.
The only sensible course is to try to build a government of national unity, ideally backed by a new constitution that devolves autonomy to the regions and major cities (though it has to be admitted that such schemes have rarely worked in the winner-takes-all Arab world).
All of this work devolves primarily upon the pharmaceutical companies responsible for producing new drugs.
