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Example sentences for "centralised"

Lexicographically close words:
central; centrale; centrales; centralisation; centralise; centralising; centralism; centralist; centralists; centrality
  1. However much the Viennese might, under other circumstances, have liked a Constitution which was centralised at Vienna, they none of them would welcome it when it was combined with the rule of Windischgraetz.

  2. Other organs also attained a higher development; they acquired a compact centralised heart with valves and a more advanced liver and kidneys, and made progress in other important respects.

  3. On the other hand, we see a great advance in the structure of the heart, which is found underneath the gills in the shape of a centralised muscular tube, and is divided into an auricle and a ventricle.

  4. It is (probably as a result of degeneration) without the auscultory organ and the centralised heart that all the others have; and it has no fully-formed kidneys.

  5. On the other hand, the Ascidia has a centralised heart, and in this respect it seems to be more advanced than the Amphioxus.

  6. As the English reader has probably no conception of formal procedure in a highly centralised bureaucracy, let me give, by way of illustration, an instance which accidentally came to my knowledge.

  7. Is the Empire in its present extent a homogeneous whole, or merely a conglomeration of heterogenous units held together by the outward bond of centralised administration?

  8. Under these circumstances it is not surprising that the repeated attempts of the Government to lighten the burdens of centralised administration by creating organs of local self-government should not have been very successful.

  9. Formerly it was an easy matter to flee to a neighbouring principality, but now all the principalities were combined under one ruler, and the foundations of a centralised administration were laid.

  10. Before the end of the year a large proportion of the propagandists were in prison, and the centralised organisation, so far as such a thing existed, was destroyed.

  11. In both countries we see the central power bringing the local administrative organs more and more under its control, till at last it succeeds in creating a thoroughly centralised bureaucratic organisation.

  12. As a matter of fact, no real group, not even a centralised society, is a homogeneous whole.

  13. But the ancient archives of the notaries might be centralised everywhere, as in some countries they are already, in public institutions.

  14. Reaction from a centralised monarchy had evidently swung public sentiment to the other extreme, resulting in a decentralised confederacy.

  15. Thus, by dint of plodding preparation, a group of federal States gained a decisive advantage over a centralised Empire which left too many things to be arranged in the last few hours.

  16. The government handling of exchange during the war was another example of the use of the centralised power of the Government for the benefit of the whole nation.

  17. His empire is not a centralised empire and only the army holds it together.

  18. It was absolutely necessary that Japan, in order to make solid progress, should be centralised politically.

  19. The model which the reformers selected was the legislation of a strongly centralised monarchy.

  20. Primitive races, however, cannot be described as having been either centralised or decentralised, socially and politically, and the first stage which they must pass is that of a vague centralisation.

  21. And yet he heartily admires some of the results of a centralised monarchy.

  22. In truth, Young desired both advantages, the vigour of a centralised government and the energy of an independent aristocracy.

  23. The absence of the centralised hierarchy of officials gave to Englishmen the sense of personal liberty which compelled the admiration of Voltaire and his countrymen in the eighteenth century.

  24. In France, reformers such as Turgot and the economists were in favour of an enlightened despotism, because the state meant a centralised power which might be turned against the aristocracy.

  25. On the Continent, that is, powers were intrusted to a centralised administrative and judicial hierarchy, which in England were left to the class independently strong by its social position.

  26. In the course of the sixteenth century the administration was gradually centralised in Rome, and placed in the hands of ecclesiastics.

  27. Religious toleration, judicial independence, dread of centralisation, jealousy of State interference, become obstacles to freedom instead of safeguards, when the centralised force of the State is wielded by the hands of the people.

  28. But the supreme power of the nobility had passed to a committee, from the committee to a Council of Ten, from the Ten to three Inquisitors of State; and in this intensely centralised form it became, about the year 1600, a frightful despotism.

  29. Hungary undertook to redress the process, and to correct centralised absolutism by self-government.

  30. It is a system as completely centralised and bureaucratic as that with which Russia governs Poland, or as that which prevailed in Venice under the Austrian rule.

  31. They see the convenience of centralisation--the ease with which a centralised administration works.

  32. The centralised government of Chile proved an admirable instrument for times of war.

  33. Framed under Castilla's influence it retains the centralised system of provincial government through prefects appointed from Lima, and gives the executive preponderant powers, although it is liberal and humane in its guaranties to the citizen.

  34. The Buenos Aireans wished to subject the Bolivian provinces to a centralised government and rule them from the capital on the Plate, but every town in Upper Peru had its ambitious Creole leaders who wished to control their own country.

  35. His idea was a centralised system with himself at its head as life president, backed by a hereditary senate, and ruling the three grand divisions of his empire through docile vice-presidents.

  36. There were therefore two dictators in Venezuela, and Marino sent to Bolivar to treat about the form of government, but the latter had determined on a centralised administration with himself supreme.

  37. Narino and other popular young leaders in Bogota intrigued for a centralised system in which Bogota was to be master province.

  38. The most aristocratic and centralised of American Constitutions, it has given Chile the strongest and stablest government in Spanish America.

  39. Such "correlative adaptation" was due to nutrition being a "connected, centralised activity.

  40. Only animals possessed of a more or less centralised nervous system can manifest this sentiment, or principle of (unconscious) reaction to external stimuli.

  41. The order was centralised under the abbot of Prémontré, where the general chapters were held, and was extended by the Cistercian process of colonisation, each house sending out its body of canons as the nucleus of a new abbey.

  42. Remark meanwhile, that this centralised bureaucracy was a failure; that after all the trouble taken to govern these masses, they were not governed, in the sense of being made better, and not worse.

  43. Burgos joined the Comunéros, the opponents of centralised government, but was wisely pardoned with other towns by the King, who held a court in state for this purpose in the Plaza Mayor at Valladolid.

  44. But the massing of this power in a few vast, centralised units has been a development of the last ten or fifteen years only.

  45. At present the Government of China is not perhaps strong enough and sufficiently centralised to assure its subjects that it can give a definite gold value to a token coin and maintain it honestly and efficiently.

  46. The mediaeval state with its lack of centralised power did not depend upon a rich treasury.

  47. The modern centralised state was a more complicated affair.

  48. The feudal disorder of the Middle Ages has given way before the order of a number of highly centralised kingdoms.

  49. The dynastic system of the highly centralised states which had been developed after the great religious wars of the seventeenth century had reached the height of its power.

  50. Louis came to the throne when Mazarin and Richelieu, the two great Cardinals, had just hammered the ancient French Kingdom into the most strongly centralised state of the seventeenth century.

  51. France, in short, nominally under the control of a closely centralised monarchy, was suffering from that worst form of anarchy which comes of a bureaucracy when it has become disorganised.

  52. The dynastic aims of the Hapsburgs, bent on establishing a centralised monarchy.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "centralised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.