Sentence examples for idea of devolution from inspiring English sources

Maude said that "most people's idea of devolution is devolution to the level at which they themselves operate".

However, a letter leaked to the Evening Standard shows Grayling wrote to former London mayor Boris Johnson in 2013 opposing the idea of devolution for fear that a future Labour mayor would gain control of the transport links.

All of this was gleefully chronicled by Scotland's 21 robustly competitive papers, which turned from a passionate commitment to the idea of devolution to ferocious resentment of the real thing.

Business organisations, which were the most hostile section of Scottish society to the idea of devolution, have been favourably impressed by the government's openness.Nor does the Parliament yet show signs of being the fast track to independence which some forecast and many in the Scottish National Party (SNP) hoped for.

I stopped being a hippie and I started to develop the idea of devolution.

For example, the idea of devolution ("backwards" evolution) is a result of erroneously assuming that evolution is directional or has a specific goal in mind (cf. orthogenesis).

The Scottish Tories, facing annihilation, had planned to spend this election campaign fighting for the union against the dangerous ideas of devolution and independence.

In Liverpool, for instance, the elected Labour city mayor, Joe Anderson, supports the idea of further devolution, but has not been able to win the support of other local government leaders in the region for a mayor to represent the wider region.

Nick Clegg says he supports the idea of further devolution for Wales, saying "we can't go fast enough".

She likes the idea of more devolution for Catalonia but is unsure about "going it alone" from Spain.

So the North East and Cumbria is slowly again looking at the idea of regional devolution, an issue that could provide enough content for its own televised debate programme.