Sentence examples for is centralist from inspiring English sources

This system defies modern political fashion: it is centralist and commanding.

Ms Díez, a Basque, is militantly centralist.

"For most of the country's life it has been a federal republic that in reality is a centralist monarchy," says Enrique Krauze, the historian.

One is authoritarian, centralist and utterly focused on winning the maximum number of medals for reasons of ideological pride – to make the old men at home look good.

Matt Bryden, a Canadian who runs Sahan Research, a Somali-oriented think-tank in Nairobi, notes that "none of the work has been done towards federalism," letting critics allege that the government is more centralist than it admits.

"Departments of government are instinctively centralist by definition," he says.

In the era of New Labour and then Gordon Brown, the party was notoriously centralist.

"His proposals for the sector to collectively set out 'statistical targets' for the next five years, for a blanket requirement to offer lower entry requirements to those meeting certain social criteria, and for a nationally imposed form of contextual data are alarmingly centralist".