1.   Dynamite fishing is illegal in Cambodia, but the lack of strong centralized authority in the country means that the law is impossible to enforce.

2.   Although the school system is often torn by tensions between advocates of centralization and decentralization, this exercise of centralized authority is entirely proper.

3.   After all, the Internet is the antidote to the centralized authority of the public-school classroom.

4.   Evidence for autonomy rather than centralized authority in Catalhoyuk also shows up in agriculture.

5.   He began to take control away from executives at the individual banks and create a more centralized authority.

6.   Recognition of the need for a centralized authority to handle modern-day war crimes cases is nearly universal.

7.   When the Soviet-led communist regimes fell, fledgling democracies such as Poland were left with little knowledge of governing outside of a centralized authority, he said.