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

The liberals are more interested in centralizing more power in the government than they are of truly helping out the American people.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Poll: Optimism on economy fading] Reference

And the idea of centralizing intelligence sounds like a good one.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2004] Reference

Someone came up with the idea of centralizing railway control centers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Identity] Reference

"I have some reservations about the notion of centralizing water management," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aakash Ganga: Saving Water for a Rainy Day] Reference

Of all the possible responses to Europe's sovereign debt woes, the notion of centralizing fiscal authority in Brussels may well be the most destructive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trichet's Blunder] Reference

The product development centers, which opened in 2005, are built on the idea of centralizing purchasing and improving collaboration with engineering and suppliers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purchasing - Top Stories] Reference

When the 9/11 commission came out with its recommendations, initially the administration was skeptical of the idea of centralizing authority in a national intelligence director.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2004] Reference

The tradition of individualism and freedom is still too strong for the kind of centralizing power-grab we are experiencing today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Wage Stagnation Debate] Reference

Let the bill die instead of "centralizing" it to the point it won't change a damned thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democratic National Committee] Reference

A matter of fact, this "centralizing" was attempted in May, 1877, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference

From the first, I saw that his powers needed centralizing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference

We're predominantly centralizing on the East coast at this time.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2002] Reference

Bürger Ministerium, with a vigorous Liberal centralizing policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

Without it, the centralizing ambitions of both parties will go untamed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Support for State Ingenuity in the Capital] Reference

This centralizing draft is constant, though not always equally apparent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference

There was, in this sense, no truly central or centralizing thought in the lecture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference

We ` re not sure what they were looking for, but they were centralizing on the garage area.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2007] Reference

Shall one turn to the centralizing tendency in political life of our country for support of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Family and it's Members] Reference

"Americans are more intent than ever on reversing the trend of centralizing power in Washington.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Funding Bill for States Clears Senate Hurdle] Reference

Illinois can reach that goal on its own, by centralizing and modernizing the lottery's management.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rep. Jack Franks: Illinois Should Better Manage the Lottery, Not Waste the Bucks] Reference

TUCKER: Among the proposed changes, centralizing the oversight of the program under the Department of Labor.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2005] Reference

History suggests the job will require a long, arduous process of centralizing political power and authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Man in Afghanistan] Reference

It is said that you have a staff three times as large as your predecessor's and that you are centralizing power.    From Wordnik.com.  ['We Need Reconciliation'] Reference

In 1887 the Trustees of the District assumed full charge of the school thus centralizing authority and management.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference

During the last few years a great deal has been said about the centralizing tendency of recent events in our history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes] Reference

In fact, cities developed because they provide a more efficient economic structure by centralizing people and products.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Poses: On the Road: Philadelphia's Neighborhood Farmers' Markets -- Clark Park] Reference

There is a centralizing draft that threatens and then finally absorbs the smaller fortunes into one colossal financial power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference

There is no escaping from this centralizing draft upon all resources, when the system of interest-taking is as general as now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference

The Tower of Jewels, designed by Carrere and Hastings of New York City, is the centralizing and dominating feature of the Exposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition] Reference

KELLEY: Along with coordination and centralizing, real quickly if you can, Dr. Alibek, at this point, though, is there time to prepare?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2001] Reference

I thought that was a mistake, since it would have put America on the side of the centralizing establishment, albeit its reformist wing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dealing With A New Russia] Reference

On many occasions I've raised objections to labor legislation and legislation that is centralizing government and emasculating provinces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voice Of A 'Warrior Nation'] Reference

If this centralizing power is destroyed then the natural distribution would be undisturbed, and these, so-called, panics would be unknown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference

Others say that the government needs to take a larger role in directing the economy, centralizing more power in Washington and increasing taxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

In some countries, however, events were opposed to the centralizing tendency, and in these the Modern Age was reached without nationality having been found.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

And centralizing power at the European Union -- leaders of the 27-nation bloc are agreeing to create a long-term presidency and to streamline decision-making.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2007] Reference

As we are working closely with the C.C. centralizing their operations -- they are in the same floor I am in the D.C. Health Department, and we fan out from there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2001] Reference

Back in March, he testified before the 9/11 Commission, saying that centralizing intelligence could stifle creativity instead of challenging conventional thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2004] Reference