centralized control of emergency relief efforts.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

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

Because journalism like everything else that used to be centralized is in the process of being distributed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scripting News for 3/24/2007 « Scripting News Annex] Reference

Grandma Emma "centralized" - she lived her passions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rick Foster: Your Grandmother and Mine, Happiness, and Health] Reference

Not sure how this fits with the idea of centralized, state-provided healthcare.    From Wordnik.com.  [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference

VDI is one form of desktop virtualization that revolves around the idea of centralized, server-hosted desktops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desktop Virtualization Tips For CIOs] Reference

Review: the IoMega Home Media Network Hard Drive seemed to deliver what they advertised, namely a centralized server for media in the home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets] Reference

It also precipitated a 1976 Supreme Court ruling equating money with free speech, bringing a whole new twist to the notion of centralized power in the hands of the moneyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Reform: Grow it from the grassroots] Reference

Within the university (as elsewhere) power has become more centralized, that is, it has gravitated toward an identifiable collection of research and professional mandarins.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Special Supplement: Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals] Reference

Totalitarianism or sometimes referred to as centralized authoritarianism is the most brutal form of government which amounts to a dictatorship of all rule vested into one person.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

A 'centralized' economy or decentralized local economies?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-12-21] Reference

But I knew I kept everything that I had kind of centralized at Tony ` s.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2008] Reference

But I know I kept everything that I had kind of centralized at Tony ` s.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2008] Reference

The thing is, learning has nothing to do with that kind of centralized control.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fear of Losing Control] Reference

This model, of course, lacks the kind of centralized control beloved by many pundits.    From Wordnik.com.  [America's 21st-Century Business Model] Reference

He seems to think that I endorse everything he is against, such as centralized government and big bailouts.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Sloan Wilson: Science, Evolution, and Current Human Affairs] Reference

Then the consumer pays whichever network provider they happen to use with some kind of centralized account.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Apple Will Use The iPhone To Take Over The Wireless Industry - Publishing 2.0] Reference

I don't think that you can have the kind of centralized, top-down sort of programs that Social Security and Medicare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interview Of The President By Joe Klein Of The New Yorker] Reference

I was about to say it had "centralized" those decisions, but total authority is not the same thing as central authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [How I Became a Prop for China] Reference

Centralization is the idea that an originally 3-dimensional vowel system was "centralized" and reduced to a 2-dimensional system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE) under way an effort to get some kind of centralized screening process in place for these things before they get to the offices?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2001] Reference

Will I have to wait 6 months to see a doctor after health care is "centralized"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [WordPress.com News] Reference

Any kind of centralized system is provably inefficient under certain circumstances!.    From Wordnik.com.  [SD Times Latest News] Reference

Harvey also says the notion of a "centralized" reporting point may need to be re-evaluated.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In this walkthrough, I'll show you how to create a "centralized" resources files that will be stored in 14\Resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [MSDN Blogs] Reference

Shanghai: Minhang Assistance Station is a "centralized" black jail that detains intercepted petitioners from all over China in Shanghai.    From Wordnik.com.  [Status of Chinese People] Reference

Most people who run a multiple Mac household have some kind of centralized computer that does the data storage and other server like tasks.    From Wordnik.com.  [MacMod - Connecting Smart Mac Users] Reference

The server meets most of the critical business needs, such as centralized management, the Active Directory (LDAP) support, message logging.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fileforum] Reference

The server meets most of the critical business needs, such as centralized management, the Active Directory (LDAP) support, message and file transfer logging.    From Wordnik.com.  [Betanews] Reference

Ours is what is called the centralized democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Disaster Relief: How to Contribute - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

"centralized" location for all the best sports card writers on the Internet and single-handedly created.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wax Heaven] Reference

'centralized' top of the foodchain elected officials consider the little guy important enough to consult.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Second, as I noted in the last comment, it doesn’t require any kind of centralized apparatus of coercion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Elinor Ostrom and the Tragedy of the Commons] Reference

Under John Paul II, decision making has been centralized in Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Cardinal Call For Change] Reference

And of course, centralized management is not the only way to run a government.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Not To Build A Nation] Reference

Both were pinpricks in the vast façade of centralized industries like telecommunications and retail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funded By Mob Money] Reference

In the name of decentralizing politics, Gingrich is acquiring extraordinary centralized power in the House.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Warrior] Reference

But civil-liberties groups fear that the trail left in a centralized national-security database would have Big Brother potential.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

The new Commission proposes to change that by creating "a centralized and supervised system of examination and accounting and reporting.".    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Time To Let In Some Light] Reference