federalisation love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See federalization, federalize.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of federalization.

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  • noun the state of being under federal control
  • noun the act of being put under federal control

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Examples

  • Another suggestion freely thrown out is that Home Rule is only the beginning of a process of federalisation which is to bring us to the goal of Imperial Federation.

    Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union Various

  • Therefore, without any democratic mandate to do so, Angela Merkel and her coterie are now openly seeking a radical federalisation of Europe -- merrily subsuming ancient nation states and riding roughshod over the basic principles of democratic accountability.

    Rory Fitzgerald: Merkel's Chilling Vision of a Post-democratic Europe Rory Fitzgerald 2012

  • On the shaky grounds that the old style of federalisation (a style rejected by Plaid Cymru) means "closing" a school on Friday afternoon to be "re-opened" the following Monday morning as part of a federal school, Llais Gwynedd candidates went from door to door claiming that Plaid Cymru wanted to close schools like Tremadog, Beddgelert and Brynaearu.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • Instead of sticking to one BBC there should be federalisation, as Samir Shah of the BBC's Executive Board suggested recently, creating a national channel for each one of the four countries including a BBC England.

    Archive 2008-07-01 2008

  • On the shaky grounds that the old style of federalisation a style rejected by Plaid Cymru means "closing" a school on Friday afternoon to be "re-opened" the following Monday morning as part of a federal school, Llais Gwynedd candidates went from door to door claiming that Plaid Cymru wanted to close schools like Tremadog, Beddgelert and Brynaearu.

    Electoral Lies 2008

  • Instead of sticking to one BBC there should be federalisation, as Samir Shah of the BBC's Executive Board suggested recently, creating a national channel for each one of the four countries including a BBC England.

    Federalising Britain - and the BBC 2008

  • The devolution of powers to Scotland, Wales, etc., is the start of a so far incomplete federalisation of British internal government.

    A Bore Draw at PMQs 2007

  • The current difficulties, including the role of Islam, the degree of federalisation, access to oil revenues, and possible Kurdish autonomy, were entirely expected by those who understood the country.

    Archive 2005-08-01 Garry 2005

  • The current difficulties, including the role of Islam, the degree of federalisation, access to oil revenues, and possible Kurdish autonomy, were entirely expected by those who understood the country.

    In a Nutshell Garry 2005

  • Governments as the Provisional Government of the Czecho-Slovak State and nation, in complete accord with the declaration of the Czech deputies in Prague on January 6, 1918, and realising that federalisation and, still more, autonomy mean nothing under a Habsburg dynasty, do hereby make and declare this our Declaration of

    Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty Vladim��r Nosek 1929

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