Verb (used with object) : to centralize budgeting in one agency.    From Dictionary.com. 

Q: Does the covenant attempt to "centralise" the Communion?.    From Wordnik.com.  [of course, I could be wrong...] Reference

The ANC was attempting to centralise all power in the hands of.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The summit must adopt measures to centralise and rationalise the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Congress to centralise power and do away with minority rights, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Congress '"plans to centralise crime-fighting powers in Pretoria".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Fraser-Moleketi dismissed allegations the bill was a plot to centralise power.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

This is what the EU is for to gather power, to centralise it and to control Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [EU trying to acquire more powers] Reference

All these purposes centralise in one POTENTIALISED PURPOSE -- the conquest of matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga] Reference

The case was postponed to October 5 in order to centralise all the charges against Mathe.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Attempts to centralise the various projects had been met with fierce resistance, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"This is a clear bid to centralise financial control in to a mega-city authority," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

In this regard the department had to centralise the management of budget for the last quarter.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

(PSAB) next week, which aimed to centralise the public service at national and provincial levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The attempt to centralise in a single hand the whole conduct in action of so vast a fleet failed ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Castles of Steel]

However, there had been a tendency to over-centralise many functions, such as human resources and budgets.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"If this decision is actually carried through, it will be the latest in a series of moves to centralise power.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Bill was followed, particularly since it proposed to centralise control of education in the hands of the Minister.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Professor Sipho Seepe of the Institute of Race Relations said it was wrong to centralise these issues around Mbeki.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The case was postponed to July 19 in order for the state to centralise Mathe's charges with other cases against him.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Bank governor was an African National Congress attempt to centralise the bank, the Conservative Party said on Monday.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

At the time Fraser-Moleketi dismissed allegations by opposition parties that the bill was a plot to centralise power.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The ANC in past discussions, especially those of 1992, had opted to centralise communities in the fight against crime.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Service and Administration minister, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, to centralise all public servants under her department.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The question could equally be posed the other way round: why is it necessary to centralise so much power in Westminster?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speech to AIIA: Constitutional Reform in the UK] Reference

That is why it is carrying out constitutional changes designed to centralise power in the hands of the racist President.    From Wordnik.com.  [WE MUST ORGANISE OURSELVES INTO A CONQUERING FORCE] Reference

The Social Security Agency Bill, seeks to centralise the payment of grants through the establishment of a national agency.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It has therefore been decided to centralise supervision and control of these institutions in the hands of Finance Minister.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Also, tendency of Nepalese governance to centralise and the lack of focus on development are sustaining Maoist insurgency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nepal-India Relationship] Reference

Great leaps forward are being made in both China and India as they de-centralise and liberalise their socialised economies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Jenkins: Bush Gives a Glimmer of a Gandhian Humility] Reference

The decision to centralise separate advertising departments dedicated to each paper into a single operation resulted in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The idea to centralise all media on the campus originated with the Ronel Viljoen, student council representative for media in.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It said the expanded district council areas would centralise decision-making, making popular participation next to impossible.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The nominations were "indicative of the ANC's continued efforts to centralise power at the cost of federalism," said FF leader.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

He said the purpose of the relicensing was to centralise the registration of firearms so that the SAPS would be in possession of.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Another marked similarity between the new ANC and the old NP is the tendency to centralise power and extend the party's control.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

He said the White Paper was part of a "communist strategy" to undermine and destroy traditional leadership and to centralise power.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Government's plans to centralise the public service, purportedly in the interests of improving "delivery", set alarm bells ringing.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

But, studies conducted by the Johannesburg legislature showed that it would be desirable to centralise trading in market squares, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

At the heart of this, Gove argued, was a pathological instinct to centralise and cling to power, trusting only an inner circle of devoted loyalists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference