The centralistic way in which the ANC's premiership candidates were designated confirmed this tendency.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

I can remember that it was necessary to struggle very hard against that centralistic spirit, a bit capitalistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASTRO SPEECH AT MONCADA ANNIVERSARY CEREMONY] Reference

Nor had it objected to the many actions through which "autocratic and centralistic power of the ANC had consolidated itself ... in fact they have aided and abetted".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"The NNP will fulfil (its) constitutional responsibilities in this province and will not be pushed around by a centralistic, power-crazy Western Cape ANC," Gelderblom said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

South Africa would follow "the same autocratic, centralistic and authoritarian route followed by other African countries in their post-liberation era" if the rival ANC succeeded in consolidating its power.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The well-known reciprocal relation between a despotic orientation and the warlike tendencies of a group rests on this formal basis: war needs a centralistic intensification of the group form, and this is guaranteed best by despotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations] Reference

Almost all the traditions and institutions which have moulded the national character and the whole moral climate of England and America are those which the progress of collectivism and its centralistic tendencies are progressively destroying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scum Rises] Reference

They are in favor of centralistic masterminding of our fates.    From Wordnik.com.  [City Journal] Reference

Germanising centralistic efforts of Joseph II., the Czechs again began to recover their national consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty] Reference

Therefore, suspecting minority-populations might justify centralistic pressure upon them to prevent their secession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy] Reference

In 1822 were published "El Sol" and "El Correo de la Federación", organs respectively of the Freemasons of the Scottish (centralistic), and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

Without the support of national governments, the European institutions would be bound to alternate between disruptive pressures and centralistic temptations.    From Wordnik.com.  [cafebabel.com] Reference

Tseretelli accused the Cadet leaders of practising a centralistic doctrinairism, of failing to understand the necessity for compromising with the Ukrainians, etc., etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [From October to Brest-Litovsk] Reference

Today, the transformation of the Italian state towards a federation is high on the agenda, as is the overcoming of the centralistic system the Italian Unity is based on.    From Wordnik.com.  [cafebabel.com] Reference

Bowman explained the beauty of the landscape, national parks, recreational opportunities and centralistic location of Grand Junction that was then relatively unknown to the travel industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [GJSentinel.com] Reference