Is he somebody who is capable of widening his group of advisors, loosening that central control?
But it could also mean central control over policies by Mr Blair and his team in Downing Street.
She believes regional governments have too much power and wants to claw back central control over, for example, education.
The NHS IT project was the government's attempt to apply some central control.
This bargain was done on terms that Germany has always advocated: more central control in exchange for more solidarity.
Militias from Misrata and Zintan are particularly loth to come under central control.
The French-speaking Socialist Party may be particularly incorrigible, since it consists of local baronies all but impervious to central control.
But Unilever is working to build an overall image as a responsible corporation and exercises central control over the individual brands.
And it is likely to be a Syria where central control is much weaker in the face of sectarian and clan fissures.
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, says that if there is to be any mutualisation of liabilities, there must be greater central control.
The UK is unique in its level of central control, says Sir Sandy, although he is optimistic the climate is right for change.
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Other businesses, such as tourism, have been pulled back into central control, with formerly semi-autonomous outfits such as car-hire agencies and marinas now run by ministries.
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Ethernet is a democratic type of network: computers communicate peer to peer with no central control, and the technical standard became open, managed by the IEEE.
Campaign group Railfuture said this was being done by central control and cutting the number of signal boxes, as well as improved communications and other measures.
Secondly, there is an acceptance that the eurozone is moving beyond a monetary union to a fiscal union, with much greater central control over tax and spending.
Despite a low starting-point for public debt, deficit overshoots have revealed insufficient central control over the 17 regions that are responsible for a big chunk of spending.
Foundations and federal research agencies were committed to the view that central control of payment would lead to lower costs and make the expansion of coverage possible.
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It was between running a society from the top down, with central control and a command economy, and from the bottom up, with dispersed power and a market economy.
One older partner in Ahualulco thinks some of this spirit might go once the cajas come under central control and the biggest offer much the same services as banks.
The UK was already supposed to be well on the way to making the grid smarter but the project has been delayed because of worries about the central control system.
By taking central control of 18 million square feet of office space, for example, Richardson cut WPP's real estate costs from 8.5% of revenue in 2002 to 6.9% in 2007.
Neo-liberalism is a term used by the left to describe the modern school of economics which attempts to move the world towards free-markets (classical liberalism) and away from various forms of central control.
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But there has been limited progress towards the kind of political union - or central control of budget-making, borrowing and supervision of banks - that many would see as necessary to the eurozone's long-term survival.
In the same way that mass production moved the locus of industry from small shops to huge factories, today's mutations have the potential to shift us away from business models based on economies of scale, asset intensification, concentration and central control.
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It's a fractional reserve system with no reserve requirements and no central bank control.
The commissioner appointed to run Doncaster Council has recommended that the authority remains under central government control.
Meanwhile, Iraq's autonomous northern province of Kurdistan has signed dozens of oil contracts with foreign companies, outside central government control.
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