Sentence examples for newly devolved from inspiring English sources

"We must now deliver on time and in full the radical package of newly devolved powers to Scotland," he added.

And the British state must change, from the House of Lords to us working and cooperating together in this newly devolved Britain.

In a rebuke to both George Osborne and Iain Duncan Smith, the Scottish First Minister said her government would use its newly devolved welfare powers to abolish the bedroom tax and replace the "discredited" Work Programme.

Would these newly devolved powers, for instance, go to individual voters, or would traditional and locally based leadership councils, or shuras, be empowered to appoint provincial and district leadership?

Over the next few months, the SNP would set out "a range of ambitious plans" to transform Scotland, Ms Sturgeon added – highlighting education, health, welfare and the newly devolved powers on setting income tax rates as key areas.

Ewan Gurr, the Scotland development officer for the Trussell Trust, believes the Scottish government is willing to tackle period poverty, although inevitably questions of funding – in particular in relation to newly devolved welfare powers – come into play.

The newly established devolved Scottish parliament mounted an effort to overturn the law, and while it succeeded, it sparked a bitter reaction from opponents, who claimed that exposure to "gay propaganda" would endanger the nation's children.

Under the new dispensation, power was devolved  from the National Government to 47 newly decentralized counties.

(Following the passage of the decentralization law, the executive powers of the préfets were transferred to the elected conseils généraux; moreover, many functions previously performed by the central government were devolved to the newly created régions, units of local government that each encompassed a number of départements and that were overseen by directly elected regional councils).

In 1999, responsibility for drug-testing was devolved from the International Olympic Committee to the newly created World Anti-Doping Agency.

With the collapse of the Soviet central government in late 1991, economic policy-making devolved upon Russia and the other newly independent republics of the former union, most of whom appeared committed to a diversified economic structure in which central planning would play a much-reduced role.