What is "centralize"

Usage examples of "centralize".

Moreover, he had to feed these people--and his own--somehow, and the agricultural and aquacultural infrastructure was too spread out for centralized labor forces.

Notwithstanding such an exhibition of centralized power, it is probable that the Peace of Augsburg increased rather than diminished the authority of the territorial states at the expense of the imperial government.

The degree of hierarchy and centralization operative in a given tribe seems to correlate with the length of time it has been sedentary: the Bani Isad, for example, which has been settled for several centuries, is much more centralized than the Ash Shabana, which has been sedentary only since the end of the nineteenth century.

And the business of rigidly centralized planning of research prevented the inspired laboratory anarchy which has been so instrumental in the rapid development of biochemically based research in the last decades.

The Washington planners are trying to be helpful in this, and there are new programs for the centralized organization of science all over the place, especially in the biomedical field.

The deuteronomists insisted on centralizing the religion in the Temple in Jerusalem, destroying the outlying cult centers.

The tendency now is, as to the Union, consolidation, and as to the particular state, humanitarianism, socialism, or centralized democracy.

Hitler was looking ahead for power not only in Bavaria but eventually in the Reich, and to hold and exercise that power a dictatorial regime such as he already envisaged needed to constitute itself as a strong centralized authority, doing away with the semiautonomous states which under the Weimar Republic, as under the Hohenzollern Empire, enjoyed their own parliaments and governments.

But instead of establishing a strong, centralized organization to manage the growing worldwide signals intelligence operations, each service was allowed to retain control of both intercept and codebreaking activities.

He centralized all power and information in his own hands so that no one else fully understood everything that was going on in the Iraqi state.

It belongs to the Graeco-Roman family, and is republican as distinguished from despotic constitutions, but it comes under the head of neither monarchical nor aristocratic, neither democratic nor mixed constitutions, and creates a state which is neither a centralized state nor a confederacy.

Islamic fundamentalism, which serves as an umbrella for many variants of a number of political ideologies, has in recent years eroded the power of centralized and authoritarian political systems in the Middle East.

After years of perfecting a centralized supply system, Ingram directed area managers to start buying all available foods and other products from local sources.

In the centuries that followed, as the popes got a grip, the church became centralized, legalized, politicized, militarized.

He did not pursue self-identification, a centralized response to one's own distinctness, as much as community, and there it is again, common possession, this including a measure of that, the number one (even if negative and printed in black, as was done by the Sung algebraists) seeking a perfect balance, a positive complementary sun-cut force with which to interlock.