Sentences with word «devolve»

Instead of devolving into slapstick, American Ultra resonates with a genuine poignancy.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats believe in devolving power from Cardiff Bay into our communities, giving councils the tools to be able to properly deliver services for local people.

For state schools in the UK - not broken down into devolved administrations - there were 27 pupils per class, compared with an OECD average of 21 pupils per class.

Hopefully the content will continue the cover's momentum instead of devolving into an expensive department store catalogue.

With international captains and coaches now eligible to vote, things quickly devolved into group - think.

It has, after all, now been in devolved government for more than a decade.

As Scotland waits to see if Westminster can meet its deadline for producing draft legislation for extending more powers north of the border by January 25, English political leaders have become more aware than ever of the growing gap in devolved powers between England and the other home nations.

ESSA contains provisions that can help states reclaim their education system, as power devolves from federal to state policy makers, and makes possible a shift away from top - down, test - and - punish, compliance - based approaches to education.

«If he is serious about delivering on our joint commitment to publish draft legislation on devolving more powers to Scotland by January, he must say whether he supports an equal settlement for England — English votes for English laws.»

Labour, after all, has a strong record in this area: the creation of devolved assemblies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is still regarded as among the biggest successes of the Blair government (although as delegates ruefully noted, its attempts to do the same in regions across the north of England were far less successful).

The original franchise is remembered for devolving into cheesy sci - fi, even if that final image in the first film from 1968 of the Statue of Liberty will keep blowing the minds of stoned undergrads till the end of time.

AMs have passed emergency legislation, asserting that after Brexit the Assembly should get all EU powers on devolved matters.

Certainly the flagship Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill does not devolve tax powers from Westminster to local authorities.

Until last year, GCHQ extended the so - called Wilson doctrine, which forbids targeting MPs, to include members of devolved parliaments and assemblies.

While some of the # 6.9 billion pledged by the Liberal Democrats will go to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland via the Barnet formula for devolved nation funding, most of it will be spent on English schools.

A deal isn't a coalition and the SNP wouldn't need to prop up the Tories in this scenario — because devo - max and English votes for English laws would have meant that the SNP was «mainly governing» Scotland via Holyrood, and in rUK, the Tories would no longer need any Scottish votes (or even be able to use them)-- on devolved matters for Eng Wales and NI.

For us, that means taking devolution to all cities and letting those cities become self - sufficient by devolving tax - raising powers.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have consistently called for improved common frameworks to resolve disagreements between Governments, ensure devolution is respected and ensure the involvement of devolved legislatures in decision making.

As it does so, we should expect to see further powers — particularly in areas like tax and welfare — to be further devolved as policymakers and indeed the electorate become more comfortable with the concept of decentralisation.

In an effort to rid education of its «stifling bureaucracies,» policy makers in many areas devolved authority for school governance increasingly to principals (and sometimes to teachers and parents) in regular as well as charter schools, and these newly empowered authorities gained a dubious opportunity to spend time dealing with bricks, buses, and budgets.

Through reformed Local Enterprise Partnerships in England and new partnerships with devolved administrations post-Brexit.

These measures are not cost - free, but Westminster lacks the power to punish — it can only reject proposals by devolved governments, and if Scotland and Westminster disagree, the Supreme Court decides.

Plaid Cymru's call for EU laws affecting devolved areas to remain in force after Brexit has come under fire from the Conservatives and UKIP.

It's rather hard to discuss Kit Harington without devolving into Game of Thrones fan talk, deconstructing plot lines, questioning characters» true motives and guessing the grisly fates of baddies we love to hate; so full of twists, turns and betrayal as the story is.

(They gallery offers reassurance that they will not devolve further.)

The first question asked whether the Scottish Parliament should have more devolved responsibility.

Additionally, the Scottish government has said it will launch a governance and funding review to examine system changes, which will consider how to give more power to schools through more devolved decision making and funding.

Things devolved quickly at Pokémon Go Fest last Saturday, after cellular network failures left the game unplayable.

There are also some pleasant passages in which the government pledges to respect European case law and hand powers to the Scottish and Welsh governments over devolved issues heading back to them from the EU, like agriculture and fisheries.

Labour leader Ed Miliband promised last week to look at devolving further powers but added his Shadow Chancellor «might have something to say about that.»

It is the increasing focus that has been put on relations between Westminster and the new devolved institutions.

In Second Isaiah's prophetism, demonstrably nurtured in a solidly Isaianic tradition, the holiness of Yahweh takes priority over history, that is, it is history now which devolves from Yahweh's holiness.

The ink was barely dry on the deal to keep Theresa May in power before devolved administrations started asking for more money

If you were going down the list of things needed for a comedy to take flight you'd find them all here; the three main players pass the ball, the chemistry works, and the film never devolves into that most debilitating trope of the romantic comedy - a serious third act.

Every character possess two very basic attacks and since the screen is literally cluttered with all manner of Orcs, Goblins, Kobolds and Elves, the combat quickly just devolves into just mashing the attack buttons and the game handles the auto - lock feature entirely on its own.

The second half of the film devolves into something that resembles tedious, melodramatic daytime TV.

An opening scene in which Cross literally dodges a bullet a second or more after it's fired kind of sums up the action trajectory, which eventually devolves from bad police procedural into a bad «Dirty Harry» copycat.

We are slowly devolving back to our status as a hewer of wood and drawer of water.

However, in a film about a teen with Down syndrome who has suffered a tragedy and is searching for something that doesn't exist, the circumstances rapidly devolve from quirky to creepy to preposterous.

Five lawyers had been handling 27 capital cases pre-Katrina, far more than allowed under any nationally approved scheme; that insufferablecaseload then devolved upon the remaining three.

I believe the kit will provide invaluable assistance when devolving our corporate policy on work and breastfeeding.

Since 2016 they propose creating a unified, devolved English Parliament, within a federal UK, not an independent sovereign state.

As slow and uncomfortable as anything I've seen on the big screen, the movie devolves from stylish satire into off - the - wall endurance challenge.

Mr Palmer has been leader of East Cambridgeshire District Council since 2013 and takes up the role which comes with new devolved powers.

As education policy devolves back to the states, as it's set to do through the Every Student Succeeds Act, which Congress passed in December, we're likely to see much more school variation across states and communities.