Whereas the majority of the former hospital buildings were extended across the entirety of the hospital site, the redevelopment of Whiston Hospital witnessed the centralisation of wards and departments into one single, six-storey complex on a previously cleared section on the north west corner of the site, the original location of the historic workhouse hospital chapel, facilities management service and medical records block.

Emperors Wen and Yang undertook various reforms including the Equal-field system, which was initiated to reduce the rich-poor social gap that resulted in enhanced agricultural productivity, as well as government centralisation and reforms, creating a new model of governance after centuries of division.

In business studies, centralisation and decentralisation refer to where decisions are made in the chain of command.

The consequence of this centralisation of knowledge was that they initially controlled both public administration and education, where the trivium led through the quadrivium to theology.

Deuteronomy insists on the centralisation of worship " in the place that the Lord your God will choose "; Deuteronomy never says where this place will be, but Kings makes it clear that it is Jerusalem.

It thus exemplifies a common pattern for rural settlements, where centralisation and the rise of road transport have seen a decline in the local provision of services, despite a rising population.

Despite the centralisation of legislative and financial power, there are many areas where federal Parliament lacks the power to regulate comprehensively, even where such regulation might be seen to be in the national interest.

In neuroscience, centralisation refers to the evolutionary trend of the nervous system to be partitioned into a central nervous system and peripheral nervous system.

By the mid-19th century, Bayonne had declined somewhat with the centralisation of power to Paris and to the new département capital, non-Basque Pau, after the 1789 French Revolution, and with Wellington's bombardment.

Of these, sixteen were held in London, reflecting then-prevailing views of the Commonwealth as the continuation of the Empire and the centralisation of power in the British Commonwealth Office ( the one meeting outside London, in Lagos, was an extraordinary meeting held in January 1966 to coordinate policies towards Rhodesia ).

By the time of the French Revolution some, such as the Enragés, began to use the term positively, in opposition to Jacobin centralisation of power, seeing " revolutionary government " as oxymoronic.

When she resigned, Short denounced " the centralisation of power into the hands of the Prime Minister and an increasingly small number of advisers " The Butler Review of 2004 condemned Blair's style of " sofa government ".

In a time of considerable centralisation of power, Gregory XIII abolished the Cardinals Consistories, replacing them with Colleges, and appointing specific tasks for these colleges to work on.

Particularly for the settlement and conquest period that followed the early raids, internal strife in Scandinavia resulted in the progressive centralisation of power into fewer hands.

It is alleged that the increased personalisation of leadership in a number of states has led to prime ministers becoming themselves " semi-presidential " figures, due in part to: media coverage of politics that focuses on the leader and his or her mandate, rather than on parliament ; and to the increasing centralisation of power in the hands of the Prime minister.

Unhappy with the centralisation of political power away from the local estates and with the Spanish persecution of Dutch Protestants, William joined the Dutch uprising and turned against his former masters.

This centralisation inevitably enhanced the power of the Prime Minister, who moved from being the primus inter pares of the Asquith Cabinets of 1906 onwards, with a glittering set of huge individual talents leading powerful departments, to the dominating figures of David Lloyd George, Stanley Baldwin and Winston Churchill.

In political science, centralisation refers to the concentration of a government's power – both geographically and politically – into a centralised government.

While only a small part of New Zealand geographically, Auckland makes up % of the population of New Zealand, by far the largest city, and has greater economic power ( mainly through the centralisation of many companies ) than its population share would indicate.

He said of Birt: “ After John Birt achieved power, centralisation was accelerated.

On the EU Constitution the Democracy Movement claims that far from being a ' tidying up exercise ' of existing treaties and powers as the government claims, the Constitution represents a fundamental change in the nature of the EU and a significant increase in the centralisation of decision-making power in Brussels.

The League refuses to acknowledge any similarities with neo-Nazi organisations, and either points to its philosophical opposition to the centralisation of power, or claims that neo-Nazi organisations are created by powerful Jewish organisations to discredit patriotic groups.

Following the “ Gao Gang Affair ” there were calls for greater Party unity and there was an increase in centralisation as the old regional administrations with their Party and military bodies were abolished, a change that had been planned for some time but that was no doubt spurred on by Gao's attempts to use his regional power to gain power at the centre.

Because of the centralisation of power and the Viking invasions, there is little or no written evidence for the development of non-Wessex dialects after Alfred's unification, until the Middle English period.

In the nineteenth century, positivist French historian Hippolyte Taine repeated the Englishman's arguments in Origins of Contemporary France ( 1876 – 1885 ): that centralisation of power is the essential fault of the Revolutionary French government system ; that it does not promote democratic control ; and that the Revolution transferred power from the divinely chosen aristocracy to an " enlightened " heartless elite more incompetent and tyrannical than the aristocrats.

This part of the process sees the centralisation of power within the institutions of the political state.

The system had many faults, and opposition to Lenin and what many saw as his excessive centralisation policies came to the leadership's attention during the 8th Party Congress ( March 1919 ) and the 9th Party Congress ( March 1920 ).

In 1934, during a period known for the " search for alternatives ", along with political centralisation, efforts were carried out to provide Brazil with modern administrative, educational and military institutions.

At this time, the division's artillery assets included two artillery field regiments, a medium regiment, and a divisional locating battery, and although on paper the division was a large, combined arms formation, in reality many of its units were hollow and inadequately equipped, and in the decades following this the division, and indeed the CMF in general, underwent a period of uncertainty as the government attempted to solve the issues that the organisation faced, the most pressing of which was the question of its role and strategic relevance, as well as those concerning conditions of service, centralisation of training and access to equipment.

* 519 years – approximate duration of the Kingdom of France ( length of time between the centralisation of the French state under King Louis IX and the end of the Monarchy in the French Revolution )

In the particular Latin Church of the Catholic Church throughout earlier centuries there was much regional variation in the liturgy due to the lack of centralisation that existed in the wastern church at the time due to the fall of the western empire.

Maximilian I, like other Holy Roman Emperors before and after him, had to face struggles with other powerful princes in the empire and he thus sought to secure his position and the imperial monarchy by furthering centralisation.

This was opposed by certain leading party members and a week later ; the Declaration of the Forty-Six was issued, which condemned Stalin's centralisation policies.

Leo was a significant contributor to the centralisation of spiritual authority within the Church and in reaffirming papal authority.

A symbolic element to the new centralisation of the University was the fact that UCL property became property of the University of London.

This concentration and centralisation of capital meant that the direction of the colony's economy was henceforth determined largely in London.

While the goal of Serbian nationalists was the centralisation of Yugoslavia, other nationalities in Yugoslavia aspired to the federalisation and the decentralisation of the state.

Bernstein pointed out simple facts that he took to be evidence that Marx's predictions were not being borne out: he noted that the centralisation of capitalist industry, while significant, was not becoming wholescale and that the ownership of capital was becoming more, and not less, diffuse.

The last years of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century saw a reversal of the centralisation process that had taken place in the sixteenth: scientific institutes were set up in what became veritable campuses ; a new building to house the Arts and Philosophical faculty was built in another part of the city centre ( Palazzo del Liviano, designed by Giò Ponti ); the Astro-Physics Observatory was built on the Asiago uplands ; and the old Palazzo del Bo was fully restored ( 1938 – 45 ).

The Awami League was established as the Bengali alternative to the domination of the Muslim League in Pakistan and over centralisation of the government.

However, he was respected by a great deal of his local constituents, not least because of his vigorous ( though ultimately unsuccessful ) campaigning against the closure of Wordsley Hospital and the centralisation of all of Dudley borough's inpatient services to Russells Hall Hospital.

The language was also formerly spoken in the outer areas of what is now the city state of Berlin but in the course of urbanisation and national centralisation in that city the language vanished.

While the goal of Serbian nationalists was the centralisation of Yugoslavia, other nationalities in Yugoslavia aspired to the federalisation and the decentralisation of the state.

For many reasons it was thought that centralisation equalled a strong ( powerful ) state ( government ).

More often than not, provincial and tribal forces opposed the government's centralisation efforts, particularly because Tehran was perceived to be under the dictate of foreign powers.

In many areas of society there was continuity, as the Normans adopted many of the Anglo-Saxon governmental institutions, including the tax system, mints and the centralisation of law-making and some judicial matters ; initially sheriffs and the hundred courts continued to function as before.