From a centralized, hierarchical organization, it became a highly decentralized structure, with regional branches as the dominant actors.

But, while Al Qaeda maintained its ideology after 9 11, its organization changed dramatically. From a centralized, hierarchical organization, it became a highly decentralized structure, with regional branches as the dominant actors.

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If NATO connects with the African Union, for example, and increases the AU s connectedness, then both NATO and the AU become more central to the network and hence more powerful in terms of their ability to exercise influence and marshal resources.

Other central banks are doing likewise.

There is no central power to prosecute him.

B. Foreign policy making is very centralized

This implies the creation of a central, common system wide database or the use of decentralized but interconnected standard databases.

They have central effects on pain modulation.

It is a central result in analytic number theory.

This commitment includes financing and decentralization of the system.

I mean, the power of the city we talked about cities as being centralized in space, but what makes them so strong most of the time is they're decentralized in function.

In order to strengthen and streamline the recruitment and staff development programme within the secretariat, the Executive Secretary has established set up the a cCentral rReview bBody (CRB) following the established guidelines of the United Nations for such a body.

Other central banks are expected to follow.

It is a fresh crater with a distinctive central peak.

(d) Decentralization and devolution of authority to local levels

Both of these characteristics account for their central importance in medicine.

Statism has been a characteristically twentieth century response to new uncertainty.

That Japan s dignity is now a central issue should surprise no one.

Bargaining is highly centralized and often the government participates to coordinate fiscal policy.

It's a kind of invention of the museum that's supposed to bring a kind of cohesive understanding to the public of a body of work.

And yet legal change was not central in Brazil s success.

It has created a central authority serving as an umbrella for diverse organizations.

Everywhere outside Paris, calls for decentralization and regionalism grow.

In Republika Srpska, education is centralized at the Entity level.

Somalia continues to be without an effective central Government to control and administer its coastal waters.

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With the ongoing decentralization process, communes have a strong interest in civil registration.

A PICC line or central venous catheter is often placed for this purpose.

Network centralization is measured using centrality values that are calculated for each individual.

The annual inventory review should be conducted as a desk or centralized review.

She stressed the centrality of mutual accountability of States for development in this process.

Indeed, by 2004, the terrorists themselves regarded Iraq as the central front of their campaign.

France was the most centralized of the major economies, with roughly a 80 20 split between the national and sub national governments, while the United Kingdom falls in between, at 75 25 .

At last Gorbachev attempted to restructure the Soviet Union into a less centralized state.

It has a central core with 6 outer buildings that are connected to the central core every 100 floors.

The Group of 77 and China reaffirm today the centrality of that resolution.

The importance of designating a central authority, in accordance with the Organized Crime Convention, was also underscored.

There is an increasing commitment to water policy reform and a strong trend towards decentralization of water institutions.

With no effective central authority to inspire fear or respect and the PLO devoid of legitimacy precisely because of its refusal to give Hamas its rightful share in the organization, a grotesquely ineffective brand of cohabitation between a Fatah president and a Hamas prime minister has emerged.

However, their combined value in the field of non proliferation appears more doubtful to the extent that most or all of these associations, as the case may be, comprise States that belong to the same economic and political organization and share a specific geographical space and central policies in the field of international security.

Others have been imposing capital controls of one stripe or another.

Because broadcasting requires significant funding, it is more centralized and thus much more susceptible to state control.

Some systems allowed the user to upgrade the i486SX to a CPU with a FPU.

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