Sentence examples for large devolution from inspiring English sources

Byrne declared Labour would deliver a large devolution of power from the Department for Work and Pensions to local authorities.

Credit recovery is just part of a larger devolution in the traditional 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., lecture-and-textbook high school model, which educators increasingly acknowledge fails many children.

Activists accepted the move as part of a package of public service reforms that will see the Lib Dems fight the next election on a platform of large-scale devolution of power from Whitehall to regional and local level.

Catalonia, which already enjoys a large dose of devolution, has an election in the autumn.

A future Iraq will clearly have to involve a large measure of devolution, if not actual partition.

Also the Community Solutions Act of 2001 encouraged faith-based organizations to play a larger role in "devolution," which involves non-profit organizations taking on roles once a responsibility of state governments (Stanziola & Schmitz, 2003).

And Scotland's doing great under devolution.

With the devolution of large estates and the growth of urban life, surveying required more and more precision; maps had to be consulted to determine exact boundaries.

Mark Littlewood, director general of free market thinktank the Institute of Economic Affairs, said that "asymmetrical immigration rules" within a UK that went in for devolution on a large scale are not "a technical impossibility".

Labour believes the city-region can be the engine of growth and the Adonis plan is in large part implementing some of the devolution measures proposed by the former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Heseltine.

Katie Ghosh, chief executive of the Electoral Reform Society, puts it this way: "So far the debate about English devolution has been largely Treasury-driven, fiscally focused and aimed at larger economic centres.