decentralized

The Ottomans had managed Arabia through a decentralized system of provinces called valyets, run by governors they appointed.

Full-scale civil wars are giving way to fragmented armed groups with decentralized power bases in remote border regions.

We want a decentralized government that will give us more freedom to manage our own affairs.

Rather, his appeal proceeded (and still proceeds) from a radical message of individual autonomy and decentralized political power.

The emerging church movement, in particular, has embraced a kind of steady, decentralized growth that can seem CrossFit-ish.

If the government of the society is strictly monarchial, its administration is, on the contrary, extremely decentralized.

In fact, it is the most decentralized movement in the world today.

Then let us recall how soon after that we were all assuming some share in this "decentralized administration."

To M. de Camors, in principle it was a matter of perfect indifference whether France was centralized or decentralized.

Governmental functioning ostensibly decentralized, but policy and control exercised by higher state and party organs.