Sentences with phrase «devolves back»

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.

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

So, what do we and everything else in the universe devolve back to exactly?

Cutright goes a lot further (as did a lot of other modernization theorists): if a non-democratic country developed their economy, they would either have to become more democratic or their economy or devolve back to a less developed state.

This is on the basis that the EU powers will be held in Westminster for up to seven years before being devolved back to Wales.

If horses survived at all, they would devolve back to Przewalski's horse, the only true wild horse, still found in the Mongolian steppes.

Either that or my humor has devolved back to a child's.

Not exact matches

Despite the bipartisan popularity of business - friendly proposals, including increasing the cap on H - 1B work visas for skilled workers and creating a visa category for venture - backed entrepreneurs, the public debate frequently devolves into shouting matches over whether people should be deported and how quickly.

... devolve shareholder proposals back to the states, which traditionally and appropriately have been allotted authority over corporate governance matters.

When I used to have to do presentations in school, I would write out a whole script and practice it repeatedly, and I think that having something to go back to and envision if my mind went blank really helped me not devolve into fight or flight mode.

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.

For starters, how about asking the people of England if we want our English parliament back and working in our interests, the same way the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish were consulted about devolved government.

Osborne seems to back the core of Michael Heseltine's plan to devolve much spending on business, transport and skills etc to local regions.

But devolving resources and responsibilities from an overbearing, unresponsive, and ineffective federal government to the states is the first step we must make if we are serious about putting our nation back on track, and our people back to work,» he said.

The former governor lamented the fact that the governor's race has devolved — literally — into little more than a pushing match, saying: «I think it's too bad that we're not using this moment to have a real conversation about what the policies should be to bring New York State back to what it used to be, the empire state.»

The fight over who should have majority control of the state Senate has devolved into a friendly back - and - forth between Bronx state Sen. Ruben Diaz and former Democratic Committee Executive Director Charlie King.

The formula has no legal backing anyway and generally works by allocating extra resources to the devolved administrations when extra money is spent in England.

Instead, local councils should collaborate with Transport for London to devolve power back to the residents and local government and listen to the concerns of their passengers.

Tensions have been rising for weeks over plans to devolve control over the police and courts back into local hands.

In fact I understand from UK and Welsh Government sources that only a last - minute failure to agree a deal on devolving Air Passenger Duty to Wales prevented Carwyn Jones from publicly backing the change.

Alternatively he could either go back to Defence with a brief to sort out a realistic deployment of the forces or, even better, take up a new post as Secretary of State for the Nations and Local Government - combining responsibility for the three devolved nations and the present «Communities» department?

Even back during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaign, there were clear indications that Farage backed the creation of a devolved English parliament.

Part of that will mean working very carefully to ensure that — as powers are repatriated from Brussels back to Britain — the right powers are returned to Westminster, and the right powers are passed to the devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Nearly twenty years ago Scots voted overwhelmingly to back the idea of setting up a devolved Scottish parliament with limited tax - varying powers.

Back in 2011, there were many concerned voices raised when the proportion of female candidates running in the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish devolved elections dropped significantly.

Nearly a decade ago, in one of its first acts in government, Labour devolved power back to the people of Wales.

Between the wars Salford was home to massively overpopulated back - to - back slums, they were cleared in the 1960s, being replaced by housing estates that by the 1990s had in turn also devolved into slums cursed by unemployment, shootings and gang violence.

My husband says he swears he kisses me and takes his eyes off me for 3 seconds, only to turn back and find I have instantly devolved into Pajamas Goddess, with makeup off and hair up in a messy bun.

First introduced in Marvel Premiere # 1 back in 1972, the Soul Gem started off as a gift, handed down from the High Evolutionary, a scientist - turned - cosmic being with the power to evolve and devolve things at will, to Adam Warlock.

Coming off a decade where the American genre film devolved into lowest - common - denominator investments and blockbusters ballooned skyward on the backs of sequels and franchises, Refn's modest exercise in crime pastiche and car - chase nostalgia parlayed both the exhaustion of Hollywood's narrative resources and — perhaps more importantly — the gathering mainstream curiosity in independent music's preoccupation with the sound and feel of the 1980s (the film's soundtrack has become one of the most popular word - of - mouth successes of the decade).

When Winehouse's later life devolves (and devolves again), Kapadia creates a sense of recall, of looking back at small things the viewer had «lived through» with younger Winehouse, ultimately creating the realization in the viewer they are watching Winehouse spiral downwards in real - time... and there is nothing that can be done about it.

During her confirmation process, DeVos promised time and again to shrink Uncle Sam's impact on the nation's schools — to devolve decisions back to states, communities, educators and parents.

For all too many schools, back to school night has devolved into just another poorly attended event where the parents of a few high achieving students visit with teachers.

The interior fittings are pleasing to the eye and mostly soft to the touch, but they devolve into more mainstream - brand plastic close to the floor and in the back row, which is the neglected stepchild in most family SUVs — and where you're most likely to find one.

Interior surfaces are pleasing to the eye and mostly soft to the touch, but they devolve into more mainstream - brand plastic close to the floor and in the back row.

It had largely devolved into (4) A pat on the back for one of the «in» literary clique's chums — with rapidly declining signal value.

Raise your hand if you wanted to know that John Phillips (founder of the Mamas and the Papas, who sang so lightheartedly and harmoniously about how «California dreamin» was becoming a reality» back in the sixties) raped his drug - addled daughter, Mackenzie Phillips, and that rape eventually devolved into a «consensual relationship.»

Some of the quests devolve into «go here, do this, come back» which is fine unless you die and respawn away from your buggy.

Before they devolve, these battles are so, so, so similar to the line - driven stuff we played way back when.

The lack of a meaningful and tangible opposition in the Assembly to the governing Executive, comprised of the four largest parties, may turn out to be a constitutional Achilles heel, which may come back to haunt the devolved structures detrimentally in the future.