You can't decentralise power in the UK while centralising it in Brussels.

By contrast, the Universities Bill is a centralising authoritarian measure which promotes bureaucracy.

Or perhaps the international labour-organisations may be too strong for the centralising forces.

The European court of justice always gets the last, centralising word.

With no roads and no communications such a centralising scheme is really impracticable.

A wary Russian leader is centralising power in the Kremlin.

Is the Blair government the centralising juggernaut critics often describe?

He erred in his civil administration by too much centralising.

Will the municipal corporations substitute themselves as an equivalent check on a centralising Government?

For Eurocrats every crisis is seen as an opportunity to further the EU's centralising objectives.

I regularly had nightmares about this centralising vortex.

Police have proposed removing its sole police officer and centralising many West Coast police services in Greymouth.

After centuries of hanging people in public squares, the American state was centralising and consolidating its power.

We have seen to what a large extent that worship is everywhere marked by a centralising tendency.

Many health services in western Europe were already successfully serving their local communities without centralising everything, he added.

Barroso told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper that German fears over centralising banking supervision in Europe are exaggerated.