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Charge BP overruled subcontractors including Halliburton, which pressed for a much more cautious design to the well, with more "centralisers" to keep the crucial drill pipe in place.

Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk 2010

He insists the Cameron-Clegg union was not a shotgun wedding but a true alliance of small state de-centralisers.

Washington thinktank says US right could learn from Cameron and Clegg Patrick Wintour Political editor 2010

There are localisers and centralisers in all the major parties, although I think the Liberal Democrats can fairly claim to be the most consistent party of localism.

Nick Clegg: Hugo Young lecture 2010 Nick Clegg 2010

To translate, centralisers keep the bore hole in shape while the cement is poured in, allowing it to form a better seal.

BP oil spill report – as it happened 2010

The company admits some culpability; that some of its staff misinterpreted readings regarding the pressure in the well, and that BP workers only used six centralisers – which keep the well bore hole in shape and reduce the chances of a leak – when BP had intended them to use 21.

BP oil spill report – as it happened 2010

It's all part of an evolving debate about how far devolution ought to go in the metropolis and the latest expression of a historic wrangle between centralisers and localisers.

London week ahead: little localist difficulties Dave Hill 2010

But then anyone who remembers the Thatcher years will know that the Conservatives are instinctive centralisers.

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True, the larger europe becomes so the more enthusiastic centralisers will seek to make it more like Washington DC but they're going to do that anyway and the larger and more unwieldy europe becomes so the better the chance is that there can't be a centralising "solution".

Turkey in the EU? 2009

True, the larger europe becomes so the more enthusiastic centralisers will seek to make it more like Washington DC but they're going to do that anyway and the larger and more unwieldy europe becomes so the better the chance is that there can't be a centralising "solution".

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

In the political world a party of the right is usually of a patriotic/nationalistic/devolutionary/decentralist hue, defenders of local power and the left, generally, are the centralisers.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009