The American invasion of Iraq set the pattern, for it broke the central government s power and empowered ethnic and religious enclaves.

We will increase the number of Provincial Reconstruction Teams in order to support the expansion of the central government's authority and facilitate development and reconstruction.

Some give the central bank the authority to set an inflation target unilaterally others stipulate coordination with the government in setting the target.

In Libya, the collapse of Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi s regime has thrown the country into chaos and decimated central government authority.

The central Government does not exercise any authority in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Sudan s authoritarian rule and social division along religious lines, together with economic difficulties and political ineptitude, precipitated the collapse of the central government s authority in the country s Christian majority south.

The power of the colonial government was the only power that was changed.

The central Government has extended its powers beyond Kabul.

We wish to see the full consolidation of authority by the central Government.

In Bolivia, there has been a shift in authority over forests from the central government to municipal governments, recognition of indigenous peoples' property rights and a reallocation of some public forest from central to municipal levels.

Deconcentration is a dministative decentralization, i.e. a transfer to lower level central government authorities, or to other local authorities who are upwardly accountable to the central government (Ribot 2002 in Larson).

Although, it remains under the control of the central government.

The Assembly has the power to dismiss the government, and thus the majority in the Assembly determines the choice of government.

Further strides have been made in decentralizing Government authority and services.

One is the central government s ability to run deficits and to act decisively.

Some functions are better suited for central government financing.

Noting also that the responsibility for providing security and law and order throughout the country resides with the Government of Afghanistan, welcoming its continuing cooperation with the Assistance Force and the Operation Enduring Freedom coalition, and stressing the importance of extending central government authority to all parts of Afghanistan,

For 50 years after the Great Depression of the 1930 s, the Money Power was held to account by the countervailing power of government.

In 1991, the central government allowed Shanghai to initiate economic reform.

Innovations can occur at all levels of government, i.e., central and local levels.

The central Government could intervene to resolve any difficulties at the municipal level.

The Transitional National Government (TNG) was the internationally recognized central government of Somalia from 2000 to 2004.

No discretion is left to the reporting officer to make a government official's gender an issue.

MASSOB, rightly aggrieved that no real effort has been made by successive Nigerian leaders to tackle the Igbo region s economic and political problems, is still challenging the central government s authority in the region.

The term has also been used to define a dominant federal government that seeks to control the authority of local institutions an example being the overriding of state authority in favor of federal legislation.

At worst, however, it creates an image of arrogance that can only undermine the credibility on which central banks authority rests.

I believe that the government s loss of control in the provinces has been stage managed.

Since the mid 1990s the central government of Botswana has been trying to move San out of their lands.

One central issue is who has the authority over determining the validity of conversions to Judaism for purposes of immigration and citizenship.

Recognizing the need for continued strong international commitment to humanitarian assistance and for programmes, under the ownership of the Transitional Authority, of rehabilitation and reconstruction, and noting that visible progress in this regard can further enhance the authority of the central government and greatly contribute to the peace process,

Indeed, local governments appear less afraid of Beijing s bite than before.

This has made the central government very powerful, attracting the best brains into its service.

I think we can see that the central government is letting me go to the U.S. to study.

(c) In October 1992 my services were placed at the disposal of the Central Government (Pakistan).

The name commissioner was chosen in periods when the central government needed confirming, or of periods where that government changed its functioning.

Overview An advocacy group is a group or an organization which tries to influence the government but does not hold power in the government.

Then came the financial crisis, with the central government adopting fiscal stimulus and relaxing monetary policy.

At the same time, the Kurdish leader Mustafa Barzani led a rebellion against the central government in Baghdad.

Many Acehnese felt that they were not being given a fair deal by the central Government.

(d) Equitable participation of States in the central Government institutions, in particular the executive and legislative bodies.

Economic reform during the 1980s and the devolution of much central government decision making, combined with the strong interest of local Communist Party officials in enriching themselves, has made it increasingly difficult for the central government to assert its authority.

Indeed, central banks assumption of additional responsibilities has been motivated less by a desire for greater power than by a sense of moral obligation, and most central bankers are only reluctantly embracing their new role and visibility.

The Netherlands is a decentralized unitary state, which means that the central government is supreme and delegates certain tasks to lower levels of government by law.

It will be difficult, but not impossible, to re establish confidence in the central government.

At the same time, it also embodies the depth of the central government s support for Hong Kong.