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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
decentralize .
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Examples
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Our Constitution decentralizes our election procedures over 13,000 counties and towns, with each counting its votes in its own way.
Wisconsin's Election Snafu Is a National Wake-Up Call John Fund 2011
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In what ways does the Internet facilitate decentralizes markets?
Hayek and the Internet, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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This suggestion decentralizes the act of theology-making from denominational committees and seminary research libraries and, while placing value on their contribution, moves the real work of theology to the people and makes it liturgical.
Jason Derr: Faith and Theology as Liturgy: The Work of the People in Faith-Formation 2010
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Examples include innovations like the Toxic Release Inventory, which allows citizens to find out about health risks posed by local polluters; market incentives like carbon pricing and the cap-and-trade system first set up in 1990 to combat acid rain; and "civic environmentalism," which decentralizes decisions about, say, how to manage habitat vital to endangered species, from Washington regulators to local landowners.
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The Afghan insurgency decentralizes tactical decisionmaking.
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This suggestion decentralizes the act of theology-making from denominational committees and seminary research libraries and, while placing value on their contribution, moves the real work of theology to the people and makes it liturgical.
Jason Derr: Faith and Theology as Liturgy: The Work of the People in Faith-Formation 2010
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American and international pledges to aid Afghanistan won't stabilize the country unless Afghan President Hamid Karzai tackles corruption and decentralizes power, write Caroline Wadhams and Colin Cookman of the Center for American Progress.
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New technology can be built that removes the middle man or at least decentralizes him.
Services for mobile apps that shouldn’t need services… : #comments 2008
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American and international pledges to aid Afghanistan won't stabilize the country unless Afghan President Hamid Karzai tackles corruption and decentralizes power, write Caroline Wadhams and Colin Cookman of the Center for American Progress.
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This suggestion decentralizes the act of theology-making from denominational committees and seminary research libraries and, while placing value on their contribution, moves the real work of theology to the people and makes it liturgical.
Jason Derr: Faith and Theology as Liturgy: The Work of the People in Faith-Formation 2010
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