Sentence examples for or devolution from inspiring English sources
This marks a significant evolution — or devolution, if you prefer — in the cultural status of fidgeting.
In one of the funniest and most resonant essays in this collection, Michael Chabon writes about the evolution — or devolution — of Lego.
(My colleague Sam Sherraden, using comparative data assembled by economists at the University of Michigan, put together this spreadsheet tracking the evolution — or devolution — of top rates in the G-8 countries since the nineteen-seventies).
But within a week of Nissan announcing new jobs, two big firms had said that they were leaving.Against this sober backdrop, talk of Scottish independence or "devolution max" is unsettling the North East.
Today, arguments in Labour circles go, there is a fresh appetite for regional (or urban) devolution within England.
Labour has debates but they do not matter, except on internal issues like the block vote or the devolution of the Scottish party.
It would be a mistake to refuse devolved powers on the basis that those powers entail cuts, which will be implemented with or without devolution.
But there would be serious trouble well before then.Thanks to Labour's asymmetric (or unfair) devolution settlement, Scottish MPs at Westminster can vote on health, education and Home Office policies that have no bearing on their constituents.
"If the government is cutting resources in transport spending then they can do this with or without devolution, and local government would still suffer the impacts of that," he says.
