devolve something to someone

Examples of devolving

devolving

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

By devolving so much interpretation back to the excavators, such context sheets may serve to undermine hierarchical project structures.
The notion of positive interdependence, therefore, has great resonance with devolving power relationships and engaging participants in meaningful learning experiences.
That is to say, the public body was divided into linguistically separate parallel halves without officially devolving media competence to substate entities.
All the countries studied were, for example, diversifying the provision of care, trying to integrate provision across traditional service and professional boundaries, and devolving budgets.
Or, he could have established territorial collectivities that merely deconcentrated power, rather than devolving it away from his own central government.
In other words, the state should retain ownership of the natural resources, while devolving the power to manage and control the resource to the stakeholders.
These detailed conditions are contained in standard contract clauses, which require primes to offset the risks by devolving them through contracts in the supply chain.
They also supported zoning because it meant devolving the state police power to localities.
Devolving welfare provision onto kin associations fragments civil society into particularistic blocks and prevents unified demands along economic lines.
A new government, or a government in crisis, may find it expedient to reconfigure power even at the expense of devolving power.
Its focus on devolving funds to the local level conforms to its grassroots identity.
But, as noted above, attempts to improve workers' health through devolving responsibility to plantations was shelved.
The classic 'agency' case of devolving financial responsibility to an institution with no financial autonomy (through a block grant, for instance) is represented by cell (3) on the diagram.
The distinction between local and national is in fact questionable because the crown was devolving responsibility for key areas of military finance on to local communities and individuals.
He recommends that reformers assess the costs and benefits of performance management, the many dimensions of ' customer orientation ', and the difficult process of devolving or decentralising government.
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