Building on the foundations of his predecessors, he created the most centralised government that England had yet seen.

Japan was isolated from the world with its ongoing traditions and forms of centralised government.

Russia featured a more strong centralised government under the emperor.

Human beings are going to have to do without big, centralised governments in the not too distant future.

Having recently pacified the peninsula, constantly in revolt, he had decided to make a move to more centralised government.

One result was that Germany and Italy lost out because neither could achieve a strong centralised government.

They'll have to get used to dealing with a proper centralised government for their resources.

In the absence of strong centralised government and control, the country slipped increasingly into civil war.

Under Paul I, it became the model for a newly centralised government.

The criticism levelled against centralised government, particularly in Sweden, is also quite justified.