(n.) Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor.
Example Sentences:
(1) This has been Conservative policy since Scotland voted for devolution.
(2) Scottish voters could be offered even greater freedoms on taxation and social policy after Labour said it would consider "radical" new powers under devolution.
(3) Senior Labour figures admit that proposing detailed new powers at this stage could backfire, by helping Salmond to challenge them with a question on enhanced devolution at the referendum.
(4) Some of its demands are wildly unrealistic, such as the reintroduction of direct rule and the suspension of devolution.
(5) "He has pledged to push for devolution of power to the north and east, and has said that the solution to the national question must have the agreement of all parties."
(6) For hardliners, "this was always a trap of devolution: it's success would help the system.
(7) Labour has suggested giving Holyrood control of income tax; the Lib Dems support the idea of fiscal autonomy; while the Conservatives say they are committed to "a strengthening of devolution".
(8) The strict logic is on Sir Menzies's side, but Britain's asymmetric devolution is not unique.
(9) Alexander announced an urgent review of spending commitments for 2010-2011, but the review will exclude those for military operations and the financial package agreed with the Northern Ireland executive to support the devolution of policing and justice powers.
(10) Read more on Scottish independence • ' I believe in solidarity with the folk living south of Carlisle ' • ' The UK is on shifting sands – we can't assume survival ' • ' Better Together is truly scraping the barrel now ' The fact is that far from fearing the breakup of the UK, the English are looking at the benefits that devolution has brought the Scots and asking why they are not able to enjoy the same.
(11) Whatever social progress that marks her era came mainly from those Labour punctuations – abolition of capital punishment, Race Relations Act, abortion and homosexual law reform, equal pay and sex discrimination acts, civil partnerships, minimum wage, Sure Start, devolution, human rights, nursery education, a vast expansion of universities and more.
(12) Devolution mitigated the authority but also undermined the obedience.
(13) The Liverpool city region has proposed retention of 100% of business rates income and the ability to franchise all local bus services, while Leicester and Leicestershire want devolution of funding and the ability to commission skills programmes locally.
(14) The report explains that the Labour peer and Lib Dem advisor based their dissent on three factors: The first factor is devolution.
(15) Devolution in our over-centralised state is to be welcomed, but that it is being talked up as the platform for Labour renewal is surely a symptom of a dearth of ideas.
(16) UUP to leave Northern Ireland’s power-sharing executive Read more The revival of the independent monitoring commission (IMC), which had the task of examining the status of IRA and loyalist paramilitary ceasefires before devolution was restored nearly a decade ago, has been mooted as a way to rebuild the unionist community’s trust in republican goodwill and deter future ceasefire breaches.
(17) The rush to make a new offer on devolution, promised within hours of publication of the shock poll result on Sunday, triggered accusations of panic and bogus bribes.
(18) Under the unique rules of devolution in Northern Ireland, if either of the two principal political leaders in the province resigns from office, the coalition falls and an election must be called.
(19) He said: “I want to bring our country together, our United Kingdom together, not least by implementing as fast as we can the devolution that we rightly promised and came together with other parties to agree both for Wales and for Scotland.
(20) But there is another, much less regarded, yet significant centenary occurring this year – 1914 saw the passage of the Government of Ireland Act , the first extensive legislation for devolution in what was then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Down
Definition:
(a.) Downcast; as, a down look.
(a.) Downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial.
(a.) Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway.
(n.) Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool
(n.) The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets.
(n.) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle.
(n.) The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
(n.) That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down
(v. t.) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
(prep.) A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural.
(prep.) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep; -- usually in the plural.
(prep.) A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.
(prep.) A state of depression; low state; abasement.
(adv.) In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up.
(adv.) From a higher to a lower position, literally or figuratively; in a descending direction; from the top of an ascent; from an upright position; to the ground or floor; to or into a lower or an inferior condition; as, into a state of humility, disgrace, misery, and the like; into a state of rest; -- used with verbs indicating motion.
(adv.) In a low or the lowest position, literally or figuratively; at the bottom of a decent; below the horizon; of the ground; in a condition of humility, dejection, misery, and the like; in a state of quiet.
(adv.) From a remoter or higher antiquity.
(adv.) From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions.
(adv.) In a descending direction along; from a higher to a lower place upon or within; at a lower place in or on; as, down a hill; down a well.
(adv.) Hence: Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound.
(v. t.) To cause to go down; to make descend; to put down; to overthrow, as in wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down.