1.   Formal distinctions between elected and appointed bodies are made redundant by centralized executive control over recruitment, policy making and implementation.

2.   Local Labour parties were subject to a centralized control which had never been exerted over the ILP or over individual unions.

3.   Centralized control of education has been a disaster in California.

4.   Centralized control gave way to such anarchic technologies as the mobile phone and the Internet.

5.   Canada, however, is an example of a country without centralized control of education but with well-defined standards.

6.   Competitive sellers of electricity have long sought a more centralized control of transmission.

7.   Compounding the financial difficulties is Niyazov himself, whose centralized control of the economy and capricious habit of firing his own trade ministers has scared away potential investors.

8.   Even a dedicated gadget lover will find the centralized controls frustratingly unintuitive.

9.   Freenet, which Clarke conceived while he was an undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh, is intended to function without any centralized control point.

10.   For years, the idea of a centralized control of Major League Baseball was merely a notion.