In a radio broadcast, he once talked about his desire to see a less centralised Church.
Yet the proposal points to a growing recognition that power has become too centralised.
Unlike other currencies, Bitcoins are not issued by a central bank or other centralised authority.
And whatever the doubts, it's worth remembering they are handled in successful de-centralised nations.
Mr Mbeki tried to rebut accusations that he does not tolerate dissent and has centralised power.
The company also said it wants to set up a centralised design team to increase efficiency.
The result of all this will be an industry even more centralised and monopolistic than before.
In that hackneyed phrase, we need a third way between privatisation and centralised state provision.
Although the unions claim to want flexibility, they would hate a real challenge to centralised bargaining.
In the meantime, Iraq's highly centralised state has disintegrated into a patchwork of fiefs.
But in centralised Britain diversity and experimentation in local government are unexpected, and thoroughly welcome.
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It brought centralised wage bargaining to an end and led to a release of market forces.
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It involves a centralised, village-level system with a large solar panel that charges a car battery.
The leading doctor also called for a centralised point where all deaths in Scotland would be registered.
Mr Clegg and Mr Cameron do share an analysis of the British state as over-centralised and bureaucratic.
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Users of this network own their data (unlike centralised social networks such as Facebook and eBay).
For in countries smaller and more centralised than the United States, diversity is even harder to achieve.
Since electricity cannot be stored in the same way as oil, no such centralised buffer is possible.
For all the unrest around its edges, Iran's heartland remains strong, centralised, and unsympathetic to uppity minorities.
Surrendering sovereignty is hard for any government in France, with its tradition of a powerful centralised state.
The first is centralised liquidity management, enabling cross-border banks to move money between different territories as needs demand.
That pattern met the needs of centralised political control and the policy of import substitution pursued until 1982.
They centralised power, eliminated rival parties, attacked religion, established secret police forces and sent dissenters to labour camps.
The blatant distribution of pork is also hazardous in Britain, a heavily centralised country with a ferocious press.
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"The Lib Dems' centralised, undemocratic vision of Europe belongs to the past, " said shadow foreign secretary William Hague.
If they set clear standards and guidelines, then teams of people can undertake a task without centralised control.
It had planned to build a centralised system in which it would hold identities on behalf of consumers.
Our health service is failing patients, its centralised bureaucracy delivering worse care than most of its equivalents abroad.
He runs a centralised media operation, which is able to use exclusion to punish those out of favour.
According to Mr Davies the assembly government's obsession with centralised control is undermining transparency and accountability in NHS Wales.
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