centralized government

collocation in English

meaningsofcentralizeandgovernment

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centralize
verb[T]
uk
/ˈsen.trə.laɪz/us
/ˈsen.trə.laɪz/
to remove authority in a system, company, country, etc. from local places to one central place so that the whole system, etc. is under ...
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government
noun
uk
/ˈɡʌv.ən.mənt/us
/ˈɡʌv.ɚn.mənt/
the group of people who officially control ...
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Nor can acentralizedgovernmentdo all of the above by itself!
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The governance literature assumes the limited role of government and adopts a hostile attitude towards the provision of social goods and services by a powerfulcentralizedgovernment.
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According to this cosmological view, people should not see centralization as eternally valid; rather they should realize that officialscentralizedgovernmentas they responded to a particular historical propensity.
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The result of being in acentralizedgovernmentwhile itself opposing centralization caused a slight drop in the party's popularity.
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He believed a strong,centralizedgovernmentmanaged by educated personnel could carry out his plans.
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Sun wanted to unite the country by force and institute change through acentralizedgovernmentbased on a one-party system.
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Most of the "peninsulares", therefore, shared the absolutists' inclination towardscentralizedgovernment.
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They recognized that acentralizedgovernmentwas essential to their prosperity.
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He wanted acentralizedgovernmentwith more control for the "ayans" rather than the "ulama".
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The absence of a highlycentralizedgovernmentwas associated with a corresponding local autonomy in the administration of villages and districts.
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Ofcentralizedgovernment, he wrote that it excels in preventing, not doing.
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The first is the newcentralizedgovernment, whose army has been sweeping through the country securing power from the local warlords.
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Furthermore, the smaller regions within a unitary state do not have a contract (constitution) with the larger, morecentralizedgovernment.
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He saved his country from going completely bankrupt and consolidated and created an efficientcentralizedgovernment.
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The principal reason behind the collapse of the attempt was that it run counter to the long tradition ofcentralizedgovernmentin the country.
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Examples of some kritiks include ones against biopower, racism,centralizedgovernmentor anthropocentric viewpoints.
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The party programme embraced above all nationalism; it also favoured a strongcentralizedgovernmentand secularism.
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Firstly, in acentralizedgovernmentsystem, promotion in the bureaucratic-political hierarchy was the only path to power.
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In fact, the form of the old clan system had remained largely intact within the great oldcentralizedgovernment.
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He, much like his father, believed in a strongcentralizedgovernment.
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