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- adjective Of, pertaining to, advocating or permitting
devolution
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Examples
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I'm sure my regular readers will be surprised when I say that, if anything, Stephen has been rather more 'devolutionary' than I think is realistic at present.
Archive 2007-10-01 Glyn Davies 2007
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I'm sure my regular readers will be surprised when I say that, if anything, Stephen has been rather more 'devolutionary' than I think is realistic at present.
Finding the real message. Glyn Davies 2007
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"devolutionary" reform ideas, this movement-call it the charitable-choice movement-is shaped by a political philosophy known as "social pluralism."
Commonweal Magazine 2009
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Even if little of a Brown development agenda could be funded this year or next, the vision needs to be front-and-center as a concrete goal to pressure compromises away from the devolutionary shrinking long delivered by the Right.
Christopher Newfield: Jerry Brown's Budget: A Danger to Himself and Others Christopher Newfield 2011
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Even if little of a Brown development agenda could be funded this year or next, the vision needs to be front-and-center as a concrete goal to pressure compromises away from the devolutionary shrinking long delivered by the Right.
Christopher Newfield: Jerry Brown's Budget: A Danger to Himself and Others Christopher Newfield 2011
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Internally, each European state has achieved this unity to a remarkable degree, despite devolutionary pressures in some.
Peter Schuck: Citizenship and the Financial Crisis in Europe Peter Schuck 2012
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Internally, each European state has achieved this unity to a remarkable degree, despite devolutionary pressures in some.
Peter Schuck: Citizenship and the Financial Crisis in Europe Peter Schuck 2012
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Even if little of a Brown development agenda could be funded this year or next, the vision needs to be front-and-center as a concrete goal to pressure compromises away from the devolutionary shrinking long delivered by the Right.
Christopher Newfield: Jerry Brown's Budget: A Danger to Himself and Others Christopher Newfield 2011
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Was the drowned world itself, and the mysterious quest for the south which had possessed Hardman, no more than an impulse to suicide, an unconscious acceptance of the logic of his own devolutionary descent, the ultimate neuronic synthesis of the archaeopsychic zero?
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If you know Scotland and its devolutionary politics, that adds an extra layer, but don't let a lack of interest deter you.
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