Meanings of centralise power in English

Every time you centralise power you are handing more power to fewer people over more people.

National's Simon Bridges, always suspicious of the government's intentions, said it seemed ministers were still looking for ways to centralise power and control over education.

A wary Russian leader is centralising power in the Kremlin.

And third, falling use of centralised power is likely to make some existing infrastructure redundant.

The old certainties of centralised power and fossil fuels are falling apart before our eyes.

She holds every monopoly, centralises power of every kind, and destroys all power of movement in others.

He is centralising power like crazy.

Mr Hogan criticised the existing 2010 Planning and Development Act, claiming it centralised power in the office of the minister of the day.

It is ironic that a government that has centralised power more than any of its predecessors should have relinquished responsibility in this key area.

Putin abolished elections for regional governors, curbed the powers of wealthy businessmen, established state control over key media outlets and centralised power in the Kremlin.

Separate plans are being finalised to centralise powers to wind down troubled euro zone banks and such decision-making could become open to question, Carr added.

But while replete with pan-European "big picture" policies, our New Deal will not result in more centralised power in the hands of unelected European bodies.