Put any people into the machinery of a centralized administrative despotism in which the Executive is merely the instrument of a majority of the legislature, and what recourse is there left to the people but 'Boulangism'?
The initiative in liberating France from this centralized administrative machinery can only come from within the vicious circle itself.
It is a great misfortune of the French people that all great changes in their political system, no matter how promoted or in what spirit, must be wrought out within the vicious circle of this centralized administrative machinery.
Thus, for example, the system of blood-vessels is most perfect where a centralized heart exists.
In general, we can of course say, the changes of nutrition affecting an individual part must necessarily react on the other parts, because the nutrition of every organism is a connected, centralized activity.
The church, too, strove to set an example of centralized administration; but its organization was still monastic rather than parochial and episcopal, and even Dunstan failed to cleanse it of sloth and simony.
It has no less clearly demonstrated the impossibility of maintaining a centralized government of the empire in Downing Street.
This gives a centralized authority where a general and comprehensive understanding can be reached of the sources of income and the most equitable distribution of expenditures.
Meteorology, that guide of navigation, for want of being systematized and centralized seemed vain, and was even denied rank and usefulness as a science.
We perceive at once that the interior agent, the motive power of that machine, centralized within an almost invariable convex, has, even from that single peculiarity, a perfectly enormous force.
This was to be expected, for such law implies a powerful, centralized state, which sends its justices round the country to amerce the townships and compel these local communities to do their duties.
Now if when we hear of 'feudalism,' we are to think of that orderly, centralized body of land-law which in Henry III.
A new difficulty, too, arose, for under a centralized system the government had to assume financial responsibilities previously borne by the states.
Jefferson knew it and saw it; it was obvious that, with a centralized financial organization, a central political organization would develop.
What was provided for in practice was a strong and highly centralized military dictatorship, in which, under the form of election, provision was made for the filling of all offices by men devoted to the group which had seized control.
Indeed, by 1848 Hungary was really a confederation of fifty-two counties, each not far removed from an aristocratic republic, rather than a centralized state.
The primary policy of Tisza was to convert the polyglot Hungarian kingdom into a centralized and homogeneous Magyar state, and to this end he did not hesitate to employ the most relentless and sometimes unscrupulous means.
Prior to the Revolution the French administrative system was centralizedand bureaucratic, but heterogeneous and notoriously ineffective.
In this country the Church had not been centralized round a principal see which would have produced unity in canon law as in other things; even the political territorial divisions had been very unstable.
In October 2005, the regime reversed some of these policies by forbidding private sales of grains and reinstituting a centralized food rationing system.
In early September 1988, he'd broken into BellSouth's centralized automation system, AIMSX or "Advanced Information Management System.
A profound change in the national policy toward foreigners; the restoration of the ancientcentralized imperialism; and the abolition of the feudal system.
Simple feudalism was exchanged for centralized monarchy with boards of government.
Nevertheless the system was part of the price paid for centralized government, acting independently of local initiative or independence.
It was a vigorous, assertive, centralized administration, eager to carry out its will and enforce order, uniformity, and its own ideas upon all persons and bodies in England.
This was done partly by giving them a favored position in the administration of the great machine of centralized royal government, partly by allowing the continuance of old feudal privileges.
The most important one of these influences was the growth of centralized states in the north, centre, and west of Europe.
This development had, indeed, been in progress since the Hundred Years' War, and consisted in the steady rise of the power of the centralized monarchy.
A single centralized government was created, and the divided currents of national life were gathered by it into one great stream.
Nor were their Parliaments antagonistic to the principle of centralized government, even when they wished to curb unrestrained royal control of it.
A second effect of the Thirty Years' War was the practical dissolution of the empire and the loss by the emperor of all centralized control over its policy.
But imagination and will require, according to all our experience, a highly developed nervous system, and to assume their existence where such a centralized system does not exist is scientifically injustifiable.
The differing results of a high differentiation of centralized organisms arise in accordance with the changing combinations of elementary parts and nerve activities.
Sensation, ascentralized in the brain, becomes perception, the sensation of a part becoming the sensation of the whole, a feeling of the individual.
Time is on its side; every incident befriends it; the passions of individuals unconsciously promote it; and it may be asserted, that the older a democratic community is, the more centralized will its government become.
To create a representation of the people in every centralized country, is therefore, to diminish the evil which extreme centralization may produce, but not to get rid of it.
In some great internal crisis or social and political disturbance, all power would be centralized and our government would be transformed into a military autocracy.
Chamberlain then suggested more centralized means of defense, grants to the British navy, and the putting of a definite proportion of colonial militia at the disposal of the British War Office for overseas service.
The possibility of obtaining from them military support and trade privileges, the desirability of returning to the old ideal of a self-contained and centralized empire, appealed now to influential groups.
The Empire had been developing upon lines which could not be made to conform to the plans for centralized parliamentary control.
The creation of some body with centralized authority over the whole Empire," Premier Botha of South Africa cogently insisted, "would be a step entirely antagonistic to the policy of Great Britain which has been so successful in the past .
When, therefore, the fourth Colonial Conference was summoned to meet in London in 1902 on the occasion of the coronation of Edward VII, Chamberlain urged with all his force and keenness a wide programme of centralized action.
The organization was centralized and the interests of the group were developed on a national scale.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "centralized" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: axial; central; concentrated; focal; key; middle; middlemost; midmost; pivotal
