Since military issues were not a government priority, Afonso established the state's administration and centralized power on himself.

It had a strong centralized administration and an aggressive military stance towards invaders, the Ajuuraan Empire successfully resisted an Oromo invasion from the west and a Portuguese incursion from the east during the Gaal Madow, meaning Black Christians, and the Ajuuraan-Portuguese wars.

District-level leaders are elected ; the president appoints officials to all other levels of the highly centralized administration.

He further centralized the administration of the empire by selecting administrators from loyal servants and families and assigning them to conquered territories.

The non-discretionary approach consolidates all access control under a centralized administration.

Revocable trusts are becoming increasingly common in the US as a substitute for a will to minimize administrative costs associated with probate and to provide centralized administration of a person's final affairs after death.

Additionally, the zakat funds may be spent on the administration of a centralized zakat collection system.

The Catholic Church successfully reorganised and centralized its administration under Clement V and John XXII.

Having a single, well controlled, and well defined data integrity system increases stability ( one centralized system performs all data integrity operations ), performance ( all data integrity operations are performed in the same tier as the consistency model ), re-usability ( all applications benefit from a single centralized data integrity system ), and maintainability ( one centralized system for all data integrity administration ).

Until 1958, governors appointed in Paris administered the colony of Côte d ' Ivoire, using a system of direct, centralized administration that left little room for Ivoirian participation in policy making.

Some nation states which have historically had a strong centralized administration have transferred political power to the regions.

To correct that, he centralized the ecclesiastical administration in the Archdiocese offices with all other bishops serving as auxiliaries, appointed to assist the archbishop, without dioceses and administrative rights of their own.

The captaincies they created were subdued to a centralized administration in Salvador which reported directly to the Crown in Lisbon.

Many Egyptologists also include the Memphite Seventh and Eighth Dynasties in the Old Kingdom as a continuation of the administration centralized at Memphis.

The University of Missouri System is a state university system providing centralized administration for four universities, a health care system, an extension program, five research and technology parks, and a publishing press.

The gradual emergence of centralized colonial government brought about unified control over local services, although the actual administration of these services was still delegated to local authorities.

The Matura is a centralized affair, conducted by the AVA ( Central Evaluation Agency ) which is in charge of selecting tasks, appointing national examiners, grading the sheets ; the MoES ( Ministry of Education and Science ) does the general administration and logistics of the nationwide exams.

In 1870, the Marine Hospital Service was reorganized as a national hospital system with centralized administration under a medical officer, the Supervising Surgeon, who was later given the title of Surgeon General.

VoIP telephony enables centralized, shared servers, with remote administration and usage management for corporate ( enterprise ) customers.

When the Eleventh Dynasty reunified Egypt, it had to create a centralized administration such as had not existed in Egypt since the downfall of the Old Kingdom government.

Sultan ' Ala ud-Din made an attempt to reassess, systematize, and unify land revenues and urban taxes and to institute a highly centralized system of administration over his realm, but his efforts were abortive.

With their help Iemitsu created a strong, centralized administration.

The automobile maintenance unit, or motor pool, came into existence in 1942 and has been responsible for centralized maintenance and management of state-owned transportation since that time.

It met these problems by the creation of the state automobile maintenance unit ( more popularly called the motor pool ), a centralized operation for the maintenance and control of all state transportation.

When we look at countries like Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Burma, where substantial progress has been made in creating a minimum supply of modern men and of social overhead capital, and where institutions of centralized government exist, we find a second category of countries with a different set of problems and hence different priorities for policy.

Nevertheless, impulses still exist among the ruling elite to rationalize and thus to perpetuate the need for centralized and authoritarian practices.

Changemaker Central is student-run centralized resource hub for student involvement in social entrepreneurship, civic engagement, service learning and community service that catalyzes student-driven social change.

AppleTalk included a number of features that allowed local area networks to be connected with no prior setup or the need for a centralized router or server of any sort.

During the Warring States Period and the early Han Dynasty, China grew greatly and the need arose for a solid and centralized cadre of government officers able to read and write administrative papers.

In 19th century Europe, the length of civil wars fell significantly, largely due to the nature of the conflicts as battles for the power center of the state, the strength of centralized governments, and the normally quick and decisive intervention by other states to support the government.

The market ( as an " unconscious " mechanism for the distribution of goods ) and private property had been replaced by centralized planning and socialized ownership of the means of production.

In an entirely centralized economy, a universal survey of human needs and consumer wants is required before a comprehensive plan for production can be formulated.

Bill Inmon, one of the first authors on the subject of data warehousing, has defined a data warehouse as a centralized repository for the entire enterprise.

PBS telecast the series, beginning in January 1980 ; the general format was that of Dr. Friedman visiting and narrating a number of success and failure stories in history, which Dr. Friedman attributes to capitalism or the lack thereof ( e. g. Hong Kong is commended for its free markets, while India is excoriated for relying on centralized planning especially for its protection of its traditional textile industry ).

Freenet works by storing small encrypted snippets of content distributed on the computers of its users and connecting only through intermediate computers which pass on requests for content and sending them back without knowing the contents of the full file, similar to how routers on the Internet route packets without knowing anything about files — except with caching, a layer of strong encryption, and without reliance on centralized structures.

The Georgian state is highly centralized, except for the autonomous regions of Abkhazia, Adjara and South Ossetia.

As well as the construction of the Fairfax campuses network of hot and cold water piping that provides power efficient, centralized heating and cooling for the university's buildings.

However, the tribal society of the Gauls did not change fast enough for the centralized Roman state, who would learn to counter them.

Henry's need for funds to consolidate his position led to an increase in the activities of centralized government.

It pitted today ’ s majimboists, represented by Odinga, who campaigned for regionalism, against Kibaki, who stood for the status quo of a highly centralized government that has delivered considerable economic growth but has repeatedly displayed the problems of too much power concentrated in too few hands — corruption, aloofness, favoritism and its flip side, marginalization.

His enthusiastic support for the nationalist party earned him the suspicion of some of the communists ; he was even elected an alternate member of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee, and in February 1924 put forward four resolutions that argued that power in the party was too centralized among a few cadres in Canton, and that power should instead he decentralized to urban and rural bureaus.

The usefulness of irrigation depends upon the ability to mobilize sufficient labor for the construction and maintenance of canals, and this, from the earliest period, has assisted the development of urban settlements and centralized systems of political authority.

That trend started to turn around in the late 1990s as corporations found new uses for their existing mainframes and as the price of data networking collapsed in most parts of the world, encouraging trends toward more centralized computing.