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Whereas those who provide private governance have incentives to get the balance right, centralists do not.

This is the context in which the 18th Amendment was brought about and even though it was a paradigm shift, resistance to the process of devolution has not ended mainly because the centralist mind set at the federal level believes that strong provinces would eventually weaken the state, he added.

The constitution that was drafted in the immediate aftermath of the promulgation of the republic retained the Ottoman centralist system.

The Kurds cannot be held accountable for the deepening disintegration of Iraq, Maliki?s centralist policies and failure to curb sectarianism and insurgency have already done plenty to ensure that.

And you thought maybe I was exaggerating, talking of a centralist culture of contempt?

Nicholson is a great survivor, and part of the reason for this is that whatever politicians of all hues say about "light touch" leadership and the "post-bureaucratic era", the volatile world of NHS politics means they ultimately find the robust, centralist Nicholsonian style indispensable.

The age of the old failed centralist Soviet-style control which has blighted and held back education in Wales is over.

"This party sees it best to be centralist, without monopolizing the center," said Abdel-Rahman Youssef, poet and activist, who was presenting the speakers.

Begum Shahnaz Wazir Ali, member National Assembly endorsed the need for nationwide constitutional literacy as the 18th Amendment has changed the centralist state to be a real federation.

Pierre Trudeau may be pegged as a centralist, for example, but Canada became the most decentralized federation in the world during his regime.

As a Liberal, I am profoundly disturbed by proposals to put power in the hands of one person -unhealthy for accountability and centralist in its approach.

In no other area of colonial life did these distant interventions of the centralist state wreak more havoc and have less to show for the travail than in the ecclesiastical sphere.

For example, chapter 4, "Towards a Centralist and Military State," covers such varied topics as political consolidation, economics, religion, expansion, the Thirty Years War, the arts, war with Russia, re-establishment of the universities, the reigns of various heirs to the throne, health and hygiene, orphanages, criminality, and witchcraft, from the mid-sixteenth to seventeenth centuries.

In fact, the current escalation points to an increasing political struggle between the federalist position of Shia Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki and the centralist position of Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr.

When movement institutions have no concrete interest in localism, they will acquiesce to centralist policies that are ostensibly pursued for "conservative ends" but actually subvert the natural affinities that are fundamental to realizing those goals.