decentralize

Example Sentences

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I believe that was the reason: an attempt to decentralize the media and kind of break it down.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2025

But Valderrama Blanco says Gálvez Ruiz will decentralize science policy and give more authority over science funding to Mexico’s state governments, an approach discouraged by the current law.

From Science Magazine • May 2, 2024

It was established in 1999 as part of moves to decentralize power in the U.K. - the first time Scotland had had its own legislature since its political union with England almost three centuries earlier.

From Washington Times • Jun. 22, 2023

Rendon ascended to speaker in 2016 on the promise that he would decentralize his control.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2023

Sir Charles's main object in local government was to decentralize, and he sought to move in this direction by stimulating the exercise of existing powers and the habit of responsibility in local popularly elected bodies.

From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius