Sentence examples for most centralised and from inspiring English sources

The UK is one of the most centralised and economically unbalanced countries in Europe.

By ruling out Lords reform, David Cameron is being dangerously complacent, encouraging both separatism in Scotland and alienation in England which, London excepted, remains the most centralised and therefore disenfranchised part of the UK.

"His White House was by far the most centralised and controlling in national security of any I had seen since Richard Nixon," Mr Gates writes.

The UK is already the most centralised country in the rich world and for many, SW1 feels only slightly less remote than Brussels".

But the wider UK remains one of the most centralised developed countries in the world, and all our cities – even London – could benefit from greater power to shape their own destinies.

More to the point, since the 19th century, France has been the most centralised country in Europe, with all administrative, financial and cultural control based in Paris.

John Paul II and Benedict have created the most centralised regime that Catholicism has ever known – a far cry from its state in either the medieval period or the Counter-Reformation.

His reign predates the sophisticated state of the later Anglo-Saxon period, but his creation of the most centralised government England had yet seen, with the king and his council working strategically to ensure acceptance of his authority and laws, laid the foundations on which his brothers and nephews would create one of the wealthiest and most advanced systems of government in Europe.

"It is time for us to modernise and move away from being one of the most centralised countries in Europe," he said.

Corsica has a population of 260,000 and remains among the poorest regions in one of the most centralised countries in Europe.

Although Scotland and Wales now have their own assemblies, Britain is still the most centralised state in western Europe.