centralization

Examples of centralizing

centralizing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

In a society gifted at generalisation, endowed with powerful ^ centralizing strategies, the historian moves in the direction of the frontiers of great regions already exploited.
In such a system, tension between centralizing and centrifugal tendencies was inevitable.
There is ongoing public discussion about centralizing the healthcare system to make it more efficient and to enforce structural reforms.
Issues of economic austerity and handling international pressure were both centralizing.
For example, local tax collectors, or percepteurs, initially selected by the mayors, were appointed directly by the government after centralizing reforms in 1802-4.
After centralizing the well, the next scene provides a zoom in the specified well.
There is centralizing and raising, and there is raising and backing, as well as, of course, more standard low productions.
Firstly, there has been a strong trend towards centralizing treatment options by merging hospitals and departments into 'function-bearing units'.
He uses very little of the secondary literature that would provide a locally oriented and diversified balance to his centralizing thesis.
Information technologies, whatever else their impact, do make for a more efficient means of centralizing and creating greater efficiency within political and bureaucratic structures.
In spite of all centralizing and moralizing tendencies, civic liberties were successfully defended, even in a highly contested area like public houses.
Early colonial rule reinforced the centralizing interests of limbo heads by introducing the formal office of village headman, without greatly intervening in the concentric settlement structure.
Calling entirely on national governments to move toward stricter control contributes to the trend of reducing institutional richness at all levels and centralizing power in national governments.
Instead, these ethno-nationalist movements must be seen primarily as the e^orts of regional elites and their followers to achieve greater autonomy and democratic structures in a new, centralizing state.
This was invariably due to their hosting multiple centralizing functions and services, ranging from administrative and other governmental activities and offices, to the concentration of elite residence and cultural institutions.
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