Exclusive Centralised Financing Platform: Yuzi acts as the government's sole designated centralised financing arm for affordable social housing, urban development and industrial cluster development for Henan province.
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Mr Xi is an authoritarian who strives for centralised control.
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A centralised system allocates Mr Dardel's students to his institution.
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Scepticism of centralised government is baked into America, he argues.
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Another idea is to promote alternatives to centralised piles of data.
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Even by Britain's highly centralised standards, the media industry is concentrated.
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Some functions that required centralised power will shift to decentralised collaboration.
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A highly centralised government cannot legislate for such a place happily.
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Many multinational groups sell all their products through a centralised unit.
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It quickly became one of the most centralised countries in Africa.
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For decades Syria was a centralised regime with a closed economy.
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Some firms may conclude they are better off under centralised command.
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Newer blockchains do better, but are unlikely ever to beat centralised databases.
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That doesn't mean I'm not instinctively sceptical of centralised Brussels decision-making.
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Today, by contrast, the most efficient system may be a centralised one.
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Some see the anti-establishment trend as a rejection of centralised power.
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Power—political and economic—is now centralised in "imperial" Manila, the capital.
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Data can make cities more efficient, but also more centralised and controlling.
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For nearly two centuries, though, even centralised France left rural parts alone.
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There is no single, centralised system for checking who owns what nationwide.
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Yet it is probable that centralised electricity will survive, especially in big cities.
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And the crown prince's effort to boost the private sector is strangely centralised.
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The Jeffersonian side worries that a centralised internet offers less scope for innovation.
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As well as being centralised, Mrs May's government is an oddly secretive one.
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The economy is too dependent on oil and gas and still too centralised.
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The rise of centralised clearing is also helping to level the playing field.
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But implementing it will require a major change from Tunisia's notoriously centralised bureaucracy.
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It said orders would initially be fulfilled from the partner's manually operated centralised warehouse.
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And next year the NBS will take more centralised control of provincial GDP numbers.
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With the rise of the cloud in the 2000s, things became more centralised again.
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A centralised system of economic management, he said, took power away from ordinary people.
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IMF SAYS MULTIPLE MONEY LAUNDERING BREACHES AT EU BANKS ADD URGENCY TO CENTRALISED SUPERVISION
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If drivers were employees, a centralised platform such as Uber could handle the paperwork.
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Its most likely form would be that of a centralised asset-restructuring company (ARC).
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Romania's highly centralised budgetary system ensures adequate support and control from the central government.
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Patients authorise their doctors to write in their PKB file, thus creating one centralised record.
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In Russia's centralised governing system, the arrest would almost certainly have needed Mr Putin's approval.
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Since then digital centralised controls over the release of water from dams have been introduced.
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Under Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party has centralised authority and clamped down on dissent.
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This will put them ahead of FATF standards, which do not require centralised data collection.
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" And he deplores "yet another treaty that reduced national vetoes and centralised power in Brussels.
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Based in the capital, Real fitted well with Franco's vision of a homogenous, centralised Spain.
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Y: Don't be too self-centralised, and to learn from others, and listen from others.
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Most also depend on centralised district heating, with no option to disconnect or change providers.
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This may be easiest where existing systems are minimal and there is no incumbent centralised regulator.
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They hope such services might one day replace the big centralised ones that dominate the internet.
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Members shun centralised decision-making, she says, preferring "distributed leadership" among some 40 BLM chapters nationwide.
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Since emerging in the 1950s, commercial computing has oscillated between being more centralised and more distributed.
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Trading in bonds and derivatives is at present largely conducted "over the counter" (off centralised exchanges).
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First, the union centralised money-creation but left national governments responsible for their own fiscal solvency.
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"They have a Jacobin mentality," says a Corsican politician, bemoaning France's exceptionally centralised system of government.
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A centralised school-reform drive, which has generated strong resistance, shows Mr Kaczynski's authoritarian streak too.
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However hard you try, in an over-centralised country you cannot get away from Westminster politics.
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Education has been centralised with an old-fashioned syllabus that emphasises rote-learning over analytical skills.
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DTCC acts as a centralised clearing house and more for dozens of exchanges and equity platforms.
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Such "distributed ledgers", as they are known, could one day become alternatives to big centralised databases.
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Similarly, Mr Xi has centralised power, taking jobs and responsibilities that his predecessor delegated to others.
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They also still systematically underestimate the prevalence and success of centralised planning and extensive welfare states.
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To understand why this may be, consider the informational challenges faced by centralised or authoritarian regimes.
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But computing could yet become much more centralised, leaving less space for Cisco to knit things together.
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Afghanistan, despite its enormous diversity, has one of the most centralised systems of government in the world.
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"Cybersecurity could benefit from a more centralised and coordinated approach/framework at EU level," the document said.
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The answer, for one of the most centralised countries in the rich world, is to decentralise power.
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Fitch views Amundi's risk control framework, which is centralised and integrated into CA's risk function, as sound.
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Inditex's centralised sourcing and distribution model also means a large chunk of its costs are in euros.
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Unlike other Arab states, which tend to be hyper-centralised, IS grants broad powers to local administrators.
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Airports with one or two big, centralised security checkpoints, by contrast, are a recipe for hellish lines.
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The last major reform, in 2008, resulted in a more centralised curriculum and reduced choice of textbooks.
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Cloud computing, too, is a centralised affair, with Amazon leading the pack, followed by Microsoft and Google.
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They also consider its well-established centralised risk management, diversified earnings mix and generally healthy asset quality.
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Rather than lodging power in centralised ministries and unaccountable technocracies, they should devolve it to regions and municipalities.
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Tencent's towers are a fitting symbol of China's internet, which is already the world's most centralised by far.
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Perhaps most worryingly, in Britain and America war had brought centralised authority and a single collective purpose: victory.
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One Tory peer has complained that the OFS is "a centralised behemoth" in "a juggernaut of a bill".
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The authorities in Beijing can expand their centralised power beyond established boundaries whenever they wish to do so.
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So much of what is wrong with Britain today stems from the fact that it is unusually centralised.
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Both America and China are centralised data economies, in which this resource is controlled by a few firms.
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He himself predicts that centralised clouds, in particular those of Amazon, Google and Microsoft, will continue to grow.
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The other is to turn the Philippines' centralised government into a federation of perhaps five newly created states.
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Because Europe lacks a centralised fiscal policy—itself a failure of politicians—the onus is on individual countries.
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Though highly integrated, the global economy lacks a centralised, stabilising hand, like a national Treasury or central bank.
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He added that in this fight China would enjoy the great advantage of centralised, unified Communist Party rule.
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And with decision-making more centralised under President Xi, the central bank itself may play a diminished role.
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Although economic flywheels played an important role, the story of how the internet became centralised is more complex.
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Popular at universities, the non-centralised computer network consisted of news groups for specific topics and file sharing.
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ESMA also said centralised supervision of clearing could be "complemented" by a role for central banks, without elaborating.
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From the 19th century, nationalist historians rewrote European state history as a progression towards centralised, ethnic nation-states.
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IndieWeb allows people to maintain information they want to share with the world without using centralised social networks.
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Decentralisation might fit the vision of the web's founding father, but the internet became centralised for a reason.
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He began selling off Quicken's 28 branches in 1998 and ultimately centralised the firm's operations in downtown Detroit.
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Like bitcoin, Monero is governed by a virtual community of hundreds of developers that lacks any centralised authority.
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This special report will start by chronicling how the internet became centralised, then discuss all three strands in turn.
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In Downing Street Mrs May has imposed the centralised, formal working practices that she honed at the Home Office.
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As a result, majority of the debt will be centralised at the parent company, thus reducing structural subordination risk.
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The first minister is not without her critics inside the party, hyper-centralised and stage-managed though it is.
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The issue isn't whether a centralised database could be employed in theory; it's whether one would be in practice.
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Git is wildly successful as an entirely decentralised version control system – almost entirely replacing centralised systems such as Subversion.
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A recent paper blames centralised wage-bargaining, and computes the gains from switching to a Germany-style localised model.
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They are still largely traded "over the counter" (ie, not on a centralised exchange) and hardly regulated at all.
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The consolidation of power and more centralised decision-making may speed up difficult supply-side and service-sector reforms.
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Stalin had no problem with centralised despotic states per se, but still saw Asian communism as a force to support.
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It works as a centralised hub for all your devices by controlling them with IR, WiFi, or Bluetooth wireless signals.
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A centralised apparatus, overseeing stock, banking and insurance watchdogs, has reduced the bureaucratic turf muddle that aggravated the prior crash.
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We are already a pretty centralised party; central control in the SPÖ has always been stronger than in the ÖVP.
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That new strategy appears to be based fundamentally on any new services or partnerships now stemming from one centralised platform.
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Its military culture prefers top-down orders and centralised planning to the initiative and autonomy favoured in NATO armed forces.
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In 2012 it ordered local authorities to stop "blindly" closing schools before ensuring that centralised ones are up to standard.
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Bitcoin famously demonstrates how a currency can exist without any central authority, contrasting with a centralised incumbent such as Paypal.
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Instead, the euro zone should have some centralised counter-cyclical fiscal policy, as Emmanuel Macron, France's president, has called for.
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But the prejudice seems likely to persist in a centralised country whose public broadcasters make little effort to buck it.
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And they should copy Britain's centralised system for prescription records, which stops patients from doctor-hopping their way to addiction.
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The new leaders say they want to reform the group's centralised decision-making process and empower women and young members.
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The plan will involve the closure of smaller offices, with work centralised in larger offices in London, Newbury and Manchester.
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Yet for all the desolation, Saintines also dispels the myth of France as merely a centralised country run from Paris.
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But over the long run, it will fan resentment of centralised rule from Beijing—and demands for a separate state.
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Profitability was also supported by the cost-efficient business model, with cheap business origination channels (mobile offices) and centralised processing.
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This is bad news for the vertically integrated giants that grew up in the age of centralised generating by the gigawatt.
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There are obvious logistics advantages to centralised kitchens where the sole way of getting orders out the door would be Deliveroo.
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He also will have the ability to make lots of political appointments and gather other centralised decision-making in his office.
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There was King Louis the Fat, who ruled from 1108 to 1137, pacified unruly barons, centralised power and won several wars.
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The currency will be administered by an independent body that will oversee a centralised database with an anonymised record of transactions.
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Yet from the Kremlin's point of view Mr Kudrin's reforms are risky: they threaten to destabilise Russia's centralised, cronyistic political system.
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The techlash has been driven partly by fears that centralised digital platforms will end up throttling competition (see our special report).
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Transformed into an industrialised, commoditised and centralised agricultural operation, the farm has now reverted to ways that his grandfather might recognise.
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"This centralised, Jacobin system" has dominated French life ever since, says Benazet Dazeas, director of Lo Congrés, an Occitan language institute.
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Smoother logistics should reduce retailers' need for working capital and allow them to operate centralised warehouses, rather than in every state.
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His argument—which will sound more familiar to Americans than to citizens of more centralised states—is based on German federalism.
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Her implication was a federal union in which a hitherto heavily centralised state, dominated by the ethnic Burman majority, devolves powers.
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It chimed with those sick of a hyper-centralised state, where feeble councils take marching orders from an out-of-touch London.
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But even if the market does not become ever more concentrated, the process of coupling (or not) has unquestionably become more centralised.
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A big hurdle—which previous efforts at decentralised technology failed to clear—is to be as convenient and seductive as centralised incumbents.
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The right-wing faction sought to establish a centralised government in Madrid and impose a homogenised Castilian identity on all of Spain.
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This is a huge deal, especially given the increasingly obvious risks of centralised end-to-end encryption (a la WhatsApp and Signal).
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But Mr Xi may represent a deeper shift: one made possible by the addition of digital technology to the apparatus of centralised authoritarianism.
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Anderson's cinematography is so distinctive — with centralised, symmetrical scenes with old-fashioned decor — that it's turned into a recognized style that people imitate.
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"Experiences and initiatives put forward by various regions tend to be ignored" under Mr Xi's more centralised and personality-based leadership, he says.
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The fossil fuels that powered the 20th century were produced by oligopolies, fed into centralised networks and sold on the premise of scarcity.
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The problem, he says, is that military minds are more inclined towards centralised systems than the decentralised ones that blockchain's distributed ledger embraces.
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And this has led to vaccine-producing bugs being grown in secure, centralised "foundries", whence their products are distributed to the wider world.
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Britain is the most centralised country in Europe, with Westminster raising more than 225% of taxes and carrying out about 26% of spending.
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He sees the modern world as one where centralised hierarchies—be they governmental or business—must compete against the power of decentralised groups.
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In Bavaria the CSU is already rolling out "anchor centres": centralised, though non-detaining, facilities for holding asylum-seekers while their claims are processed.
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His manifesto, published on the eve of the new millennium, was all about the value to the Russian people of a strong, centralised state.
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The shares of a company, by contrast, usually come in at most two types (common and preferred), and are traded frequently on centralised exchanges.
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THE one thing that everybody agreed on after Britain's divisive vote to leave the European Union was that the country was far too centralised.
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Cevian, an activist shareholder of long standing which owns 18% of ThyssenKrupp, is demanding "fundamental reorganisation" of industrial activities, scrapping Mr Hiesinger's centralised structure.
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Jozsef Martin at Transparency International, an anti-graft watchdog, says that corruption in Hungary is centralised and semi-legal, making it difficult to challenge.
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Each unit will have its own management, rather than decisions being centralised, in a bid to make the airline more agile and increase accountability.
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However, greater concentration of power and more centralised decision-making raise the risk of policy mistakes as China's economy grows in size and complexity.
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"Through LCH SwapAgent we can extend the efficiencies of centralised clearing to the non-cleared market," said Nathan Ondyak, global head of LCH SwapAgent.
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"National state ownership has historically tended to be too centralised, with power in the hands of a private and corporate elite," the report argues.
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South Korea has a centralised system in which public-school students also use private crammers to get through a high-stakes exam at 18.
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So, there is change is in the air, but perhaps we're only just beginning to see the results of this kind of centralised organization.
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Cameroon is too rigidly centralised to satisfy minorities: only 1% of government spending is locally controlled, compared with more than 50% in neighbouring Nigeria.
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In Russia's hyper-centralised system, Moscow plays an outsized role, even for a capital, serving simultaneously as the centre of government, finance, media and culture.
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Karl Marx had identified what he called the "Asiatic mode of production", distinguished by a lack of private property rights and a centralised despotic state.
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Soon after Marcos's fall in 1986, Congress devolved greater powers to provincial and local authorities, as a reaction to the former dictator's strongly centralised regime.
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He sees echoes of the social division and violence during the revolution, which subsided when the PRI centralised power and invited everyone to join it.
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DURING the 1960s, governments were responding to political unrest and economic challenges with nationalisation, centralised planning and public spending (financed by heavy taxes and debt).
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The government is also calling for the establishment of a centralised registration system for internet financial products and a unified platform for internet bank accounts.
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Separately, a senior Chinese central banker said authorities should ban centralised trading of virtual currencies as well as individuals and businesses that provide related services.
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Eventually, as the highly centralised structures of the Soviet empire were unable to accommodate these intensifying pressures, the top-down structures would have to collapse.
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Created in 2008, bitcoin uses encryption and a shared blockchain database that enables the anonymous transfer of funds outside of a conventional centralised payment system.
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Mr Berners-Lee's observation that the internet has become heavily centralised is not new, yet in recent months warnings such as his have grown louder.
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They differ from cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, which are produced by solving complex math puzzles and governed by disparate online communities instead of a centralised body.
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With the Google Play app store blocked in China, there is a need for a centralised app market for Android users, which WeChat could meet.
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Had the EU a longer history before it faced this existential crisis, enough power might have shifted to Brussels to make a more centralised response inevitable.
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The idea is to replace a centralised firm with a decentralised organisation, held together by incentives created by a token—a kind of "crypto-co-operative".
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Created in 2008, bitcoin uses encryption and a blockchain database that enables the fast and anonymous transfer of funds outside of a conventional centralised payment system.
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Rather than being run as a centralised state, Russia would work much better as a federation in which each region can develop in its own way.
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SECRET FACTS With Xi's tightening grip on the internet, the flow of information has been centralised under the Communist Partys Propaganda Department and state media network.
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Yet they have also delivered huge rewards to despotic, rentier regimes, encouraged cartels and over-centralised economies, and never borne the cost of their environmental impact.
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"Spain is more like [decentralised] Germany, but it has tried to be like [centralised] France," says Jordi Alberich of the Cercle d'Economia, a business think-tank.
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The system, which involves sending information to a centralised computer linked to the city's transport networks, is part of a trial by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
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The land bank centralised city control over abandoned and vacant properties, replacing an antiquated registry scattered across 18 data sets, some of them still on paper.
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Bosniak Muslims gave up their aim of a centralised state, which, as the largest of Bosnia's three peoples (Bosniak, Serb, and Croat), they could have dominated.
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Created in 2009, bitcoin uses encryption and a blockchain database that enables the fast and anonymous transfer of funds outside of a traditional centralised payment system.
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Still, the Google proposal—based on users sharing their blacklists via a centralised database—is precisely the sort of crowd-sourced technology carriers could easily implement.
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FCF metrics are weaker than LG's best performing assets, largely due to new build capex and the centralised vendor financing role that UPC has traditionally played.
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"China will inevitably suffer losses, but China has the political advantage of a centralised and unified leadership and support of a massive domestic market," it said.
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Islamic banks have traditionally used internal sharia boards to ensure the religious compliance of their products, but a centralised model is gaining favour across the industry.
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China did not allocate any subsidies for centralised solar stations in 2018 as Beijing tried to ease a payment backlog that stands at 120 billion yuan.
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They would differ from cryptocurrencies like bitcoin which are produced by solving complex math puzzles, and governed by disparate online communities instead of a centralised body.
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He noted that France, for example, is the only G20 country without a centralised credit bureau, only a repository that logs "bad marks," not good behaviour.
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Costs and calculations The industrial states which fought the first world war brought their economies under centralised control to a degree Europe had never seen before.
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In the rest of America large, centralised donut bakers such as Dunkin' Donuts and Krispy Kreme hold sway, but neither has successfully penetrated the Los Angeles market.
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Foremost among these will be to unpick a highly centralised state in which the president wields almost untrammeled power to make appointments to thousands of important posts.
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But with centralised tax collection greatly diminished, public debt has piled up - to 68 billion dinars in the west, including unpaid state obligations such as social insurance.
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They could also enable "edge computing", the idea that more and more number-crunching will not happen in centralised data centres but at the fringe of networks.
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LifeBank, a startup in Lagos, is working on a system that will do much the same for blood deliveries in a city without a centralised blood bank.
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Because the platform is smaller, the network of computers used to validate transactions and enforce the rules on which a crypto-currency is based is more centralised.
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Once a locker owner swipes a card detector, it issues a command to a centralised computer system, which activates Toyota's hidden conveyor belt and fork lift tech.
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Germany's big centralised power producers have been hammered by the rise of renewable energy, plunging wholesale prices and the government's plan to abandon nuclear power by 2022.
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It also expects about 50 GW of solar power projects, including centralised power stations, rooftop projects and systems under the poverty relief programme, are planned for 2019.
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"The gig economy is dead [in relation to e-scooter rentals]," Leuschner says emphatically, noting that swappable battery tech means a centralised system makes even greater sense.
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For much of their history banks were local, with people interacting with branch managers, but in recent years a more centralised sector has emerged to weaken trust.
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Bitcoin's capacity is higher than it was, but the maximum is still about ten transactions per second, compared with the thousands that a centralised payment system can handle.
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Some of them explicitly embraced the Gaullist legacy, notably Jacques Chirac, who denounced the American "hyperpower", urged a counterbalancing multi-polar world, and relished the strong, centralised presidency.
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Although they disburse about a quarter of all government spending, they are responsible for raising less than 10% of taxes, making England one of Europe's most centralised countries.
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As Paul Goodman, a writer at Conservative Home, sees it: "the prime minister's brand has been dented, her style of management—collegiate yet intensely centralised—has been exposed".
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Centralised wage negotiations in manufacturing industries have so far resulted in 2.4 percent pay increase for 2017, but could see some adjustment after local wage talks are conducted.
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Over the course of Mr Orban's three terms in office since 2010, political and economic power has been centralised to a degree unprecedented since the collapse of communism.
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More ominously, Energoatom, the nuclear utility and market monopolist, is financially bankrupt due its huge debts and a poorly functioning, over-centralised power market with rampant non-payment.
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The controls include collateral coverage, guarantees, use of information from Taiwan's centralised credit bureau, and the adoption of risk-based pricing following the implementation of credit-scoring models.
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Industry body the International Capital Market Association has called, among other proposals, for bond-lending to be centralised at the ECB, taking it away from national central banks.
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Outsourcing and delegation is common in fund management and in broking, whereby the processing of transactions or other activities across several EU states are centralised in one country.
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He also pointed to the benefits of a centralised fiscal instrument, like the federal budget in the United States, as a key tool to smoothing the business cycles.
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This week he launched a new "GE Operating System" which promises less centralised decision-making and red tape, and a spinning down of resources from headquarters to business units.
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Because of the overheads involved in shuffling data between all participants, blockchains are less efficient than centralised databases, a problem that gets worse as the number of users rises.
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As his regime starts to resemble an Arab nationalist dictatorship—socially liberal but centralised, paranoid and built on fear—his promise of a new, tolerant Saudi Arabia is receding.
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That would seem consistent with a Downing Street operation that is highly centralised, with all significant policies going through Mr Timothy and Fiona Hill, the other chief of staff.
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To spur the local bond market, the regulator last year launched a Bond+Sukuk Information Exchange (BIX), a centralised platform which consolidates bond and sukuk prices and credit data.
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Centralised budgets make it difficult for local authorities to respond flexibly to changes in local conditions, and strict planning rules limit the construction of new homes when demand surges.
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He drastically scaled back his predecessor's policy of extraditing drug bosses to the United States, and imposed centralised control on contacts between Mexican law-enforcement agents and American ones.
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That came amid news that a senior Chinese central banker had said authorities should ban centralised trading of virtual currencies and prohibit individuals and businesses from providing related services.
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Efficiency ratios might also improve because centralised management will probably ensure that all banks, and not only some as is the current case, share common platforms and operating systems.
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Long reliant on its oil and gas revenues, the economy is still emerging from a centralised model following its independence from France, and the state controls most strategic sectors.
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The paper, the official publication of the city's Communist Party organisation, said all people entering the Chinese capital will be subject to centralised quarantine and testing for the coronavirus.
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Banking union, which centralised responsibility for policing and winding up big lenders, has already reduced the risk that states will have to step in, as they did in 2008.
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Earlier on Saturday, Hainan capital Haikou city said it would start a 14-day centralised medical observation for tourists from the central Hubei province, centre of the coronavirus outbreak.
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For starters, there is the centralised content management system that runs the sites, "an open CMS system that allows any casual fan to create rich content," Peled told TechCrunch.
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Known as Datahub, the centralised power market information exchange had originally been scheduled to launch in April 2021, but now faces the prospect of starting in February 2022 instead.
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In essence, it is a ledger without a centralised administrator, maintained collectively by some of its users, called "miners", who also protect the blockchain and keep each other in check.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - The head of the European Union's election observer mission in Kenya said on Thursday it had seen no signs of "centralised or localised manipulation" of the voting process.
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In an over-centralised, economically polarised country, the emergence of powerful elected officials overseeing wide urban regions is the best hope of solving crises in living standards, productivity and housing.
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By uniting industrial production under a centralised authority the ECSC was, in the words of Robert Schuman, France's foreign minister, designed to make war "not only unthinkable but materially impossible".
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Increasingly, China embodies everything that Tocqueville warned against: power centralised in the hands of the state; citizens reduced to atoms; a collective willingness to sacrifice liberty for a comfortable life.
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Britain is the prisoner of a cult of centralised government that was created in the age of mass production but is increasingly irrelevant in the age of tailoring and customisation.
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For while power has become increasingly centralised in both parties in recent decades, the Democrats have muddled that transition by maintaining some of the architecture of a more fragmented past.
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It will be interesting to see how this develops both in terms of innovation, but also where people will potentially draw a line on too much centralised and digitised information.
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"Interest in digital currencies has spiked recently as proponents tout benefits such as a lack of centralised control and limited supply," said William O'Loughlin, an investment analyst at Rivkin Securities.
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To avoid a repeat, Congress in 2002 passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), which required states to maintain a "single, uniform, official, centralised, interactive computerised statewide voter registration list".
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The details remain unclear but it is likely the merger will involve more centralised decision-making as well as the dissolution of ethnic parties, including Abiy's own Oromo Democratic Party.
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BHP's previous commodities trading stretches back to when it merged with British peer Billiton in 2001, setting up a centralised marketing model across its operations in Singapore and The Hague.
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LONDON, Nov 3 (IFR) - Euronext has formed a joint venture with Algomi in a bid to become a centralised market for pan-European corporate bond trading, the exchange said on Thursday.
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"A stronger gross profit margin and well-controlled costs demonstrate the value of the Group's increasingly centralised supply chain and greater operating efficiency in a low-growth environment," the firm said.
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And it could extend its centralised ownership structure to lower divisions, so that income from all tiers would always be pooled among MLS shareholders to insulate them from relegation-related losses.
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Mr Seehofer considers the long-term solution "anchor centres", centralised immigration camps currently in operation in Bavaria, where applicants can be monitored and promptly deported if denied the right to stay.
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Such conservatives are suspicious of centralised government power—especially in the hands of demagogues—and set store by a range of other institutions, such as monarchies, the armed forces and churches.
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Hayek thought that the governments of the early 20th century, in responding to the concerns of the masses, had over-centralised economic decision-making, a road that led eventually to totalitarianism.
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The row escalated to an extent that there were fears both boats would need to change coach in the months leading up to Rio or step outside the centralised program altogether.
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For the technology industry itself, the decline of Moore's law strengthens the logic for centralised cloud computing, already dominated by a few big firms: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent.
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Many, though, say investors must take responsibility and must not expect protection if they lose money because of the difficulties of regulating an opaque, complex market that has no centralised authority.
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It re-centralised some decision-making over land use (in part to restrain corrupt provincial officials) and required party bigwigs to use stricter tests when evaluating projects that would require mass displacements.
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Spain anyway needs to review its system of decentralisation, recognising that a diverse country is best governed in the manner of federal Germany rather than, as is the PP's instinct, centralised France.
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That was expected, but the strong showing (in a highly loyal, centralised party) for Tommy Sheppard, an outspoken Edinburgh MP and one of the flag bearers for the radical tendency, was striking.
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He was told he should be grateful for the prince's reforms and keep quiet, but he could not make that Faustian bargain, or abide the growing cult of personality and centralised power.
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Its coal-fired power plant is shutting down, and the city plans to eliminate gas heating in homes by 2040, replacing it with electric heat pumps and centralised neighbourhood hot-water systems.
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At the heart of their disenchantment, this special report will argue, is that the internet has become much more "centralised" (in the tech crowd's terminology) than it was even ten years ago.
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Central banks already use electronic money - only a small proportion of their assets are now backed by gold - but this is exchanged in a centralised fashion, across accounts at the central bank.
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Lendlease tied up with Carnegie after working with EMC to develop a residential community called Alkamos in Western Australia, where every house has solar panels connected to a centralised array of batteries.
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Roderick MacFarquhar of Harvard University says that Leninism may be the part that most appeals to Mr Xi. Lenin has a lot to offer someone trying to establish centralised one-party rule.
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But it will do nothing to tackle the root causes of the country's tensions—a history of antiquated and over-centralised governance which allows bigwigs in Bangkok to hog influence and resources.
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Blockchain, which first emerged as the system underpinning cryptocurrency bitcoin, is a shared ledger of transactions that is maintained by a network of computers on the internet, rather than a centralised authority.
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Potentially standing in the way of the formation of this European champion is one of the EU's purest examples of centralised power: the European Commission's antitrust enforcement arm, led by Margrethe Vestager.
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Instead, it is looking at practical solutions and raises the possibility of more centralised supervision, such as the bloc's securities watchdog, ESMA, "developing, implementing and running a more consistent regime for marketing".
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Nuckols-Cosby is now working to establish her project as a non-profit so she can raise money to create a centralised hub that can distribute food items throughout the pantry network.
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Cisco's bet is that computing will never be fully centralised in vast data centres (ie clouds), but will live on many systems, big and small, says Rohit Mehra of IDC, a research firm.
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The organisation, based in France, operates centralised criminal databases that contain fingerprint records, DNA samples and stolen documents: a treasure trove so valuable that police consulted it 146 times every second in 2017.
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Last week, we learned and confirmed that Postmates laid off all its city managers, affecting about 15 employees, as it cut costs and centralised more reporting to a smaller group of general managers.
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The rising cost of war meant that keeping a state secure required a powerful, centralised government capable of raising large sums of money—through tax, or via modern, central bank-tended financial systems.
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Network Rail centralised timetablers at its head office in Milton Keynes in 2012, and the resulting loss of local expertise harmed its ability to make big changes, says Christian Wolmar, a rail expert.
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Any data you recieve from the Etekcity Bluetooth body fat scale can be synced with Apple Health, Google Fit, and Fitbit, to help store all your data in one convenient and centralised location.
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Inspired by the demise of the centralised party structure and the rise of social media, the left-wing activist world she represents has rarely been more vibrant or intimidating to the Democratic establishment.
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The Social Security numbers are especially valuable: they are the closest thing America has to a centralised national-identity system, and are far harder to change than a password on a compromised account.
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In its report, the Fund also called for centralised supervision of money-laundering risks at banks in the euro zone, after a string of cases that exposed national shortfalls in countering financial crime.
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Mr Back says it all comes down to a trade-off: let bitcoin grow too large too quickly and it will turn into a more centralised payment system that governments can interfere with.
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Democracy—especially in a system as centralised and majoritarian as that of Britain—assumes some common premises and experiences, a foundation that thanks to the great educational-cultural divide is now at risk.
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Two years later, in April 2010, Mr Orban stormed to power with a two-thirds majority, rewrote the constitution, centralised political and economic power to a degree unseen since the collapse of communism.
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The first 13 billion yuan tranche would have a tenor of three years, and the coupon is intended to be a fixed rate determined through book building and a centralised placement, they said.
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That leaves a major gap, since British experts carry out around a fifth of the work for the centralised European Medicines Agency (EMA), the EU's equivalent of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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Many of the roads on and between Indonesia's 13,000 islands are still terrible, having been all but ignored for decades under the highly centralised government of Suharto, Indonesia's president for three decades until 1998.
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The need for such co-ordination means there is no escape from centralised control of clocks and calendars—which explains, in turn, why the tendency to tinker with them for political purposes is timeless.
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Zhitong is one of several NGOs trying to educate the broader Chinese population on HIV and AIDS — an uphill battle, to reach a billion people with little support from the centralised Communist news agencies.
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The president's office released a statement after the meeting insisting that nothing but the weather was amiss, although it also argued that an overly centralised grid is unstable—another reason to invest in renewables.
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Major shareholders must not sell more than 1 percent of a listed company's share capital through stock exchanges' centralised bidding system every three months, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) said on its website.
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Henri de Castries, the boss of Axa, a French insurer, lauds how "family-owned global firms keep their roots in small towns" in Germany, spreading wealth more evenly than in his centralised home country.
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The 'Adhaar' number, which works on similar lines as Social Security numbers in the U.S., is unique to every Indian citizen and stores biometric and demographic data of the user at a centralised database.
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To spur interest and better understanding of the bond market, the regulator launched the Bond+Sukuk Information Exchange (BIX), a centralised information platform on Monday, which consolidates bond and sukuk prices and credit information.
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"People who returned from or passed through Hubei to enter the (Shanghai) municipality must actively submit to temperature monitoring ... and consciously implement home quarantine or submit to centralised supervision for 14 days," it said.
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Sagarika Ghose: I'm a liberal because I believe in the ideal that aims for greater social, political and economic freedom for the individual as against the massive, coercive powers of a centralised "Big State".
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Yet the highly centralised presidency of the French Fifth Republic, and Mr Macron's tendency to micro-manage, mean that he is the one who needs to show that he has regained control of the agenda.
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The core refers to centralised institutions, like central banks or the "Encyclopedia Britannica"; the crowd refers to the decentralised, self-organising participants, be it bitcoin nodes that manage the virtual currency or contributors to Wikipedia.
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The policy manager may be essentially a score-keeper who tracks and reports on policy progress and maintenance, or s/he could run a tightly controlled and centralised policy-writing function, or anything in between.
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It wants to abolish regional governments and parliaments (including the one in Andalusia in which it now has 12 out of 109 seats) and make Spain a centralised unitary state, as it was under Franco.
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She called for a centralised European asylum system in which the authority to grant refugee status would shift from national to EU officials, a proposal so radical that it has no chance of becoming law.
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Fractured into mini-states except in the south, the territory of present-day Italy was once easy prey for the centralised powers, including France, which began to flex their muscles in the late 15th century.
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The AI-powered glasses, made by LLVision, scan the faces of vehicle occupants and the plates, flagging with a red box and warning sign to the wearer when any match up with a centralised "blacklist".
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Rogue AIs in science fiction, such as HAL 9000 in "2001: A Space Odyssey" and SKYNET in the "Terminator" films, are big, centralised machines, which is what makes them so dangerous when they turn evil.
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The boom in green energy with its intermittent output and the fall in traditional, more centralised thermal production has prompted Terna - like other European transmission operators - to invest more in digital technology and storage systems.
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Key Offshore Financing Platform: BRI's linkage with and importance to Baowu Steel is evident from its unique position as the group's key centralised fund management and financing platform; this excludes Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.
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With Europe in the middle of a laundering scandal centred on lenders including Danske Bank, the document also suggests a centralised anti-money laundering supervisor and making the bloc's rules to prevent such crime more binding.
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"Ultimately the timeline for Papua will be dictated by Exxon's patient and disciplined centralised decision making process, and all other parties will just need to fall in line with that," said Credit Suisse analyst Saul Kavonic.
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The strongest antipathy to his views, however, may be found among his fellow economists, because he argued that information was too scattered for either a state or an individual to make realistic assumptions or centralised plans.
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The island operates a centralised electricity grid: the plants in the south-east provide power to beach resorts in the north-west and metropolitan San Juan; 21% of the power lines were destroyed by the storm.
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If this is indeed the principal strategy behind the various violent, extremism-motivated actions taking place in Europe, then the continents' security services should know not to look for centralised command structures which simply won't exist.
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Many utilities across Europe are at a crossroads requiring a new business strategy as the decades-old model of centralised, predictable energy production and consumption is giving way to a modern and more flexible energy system.
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He was echoed by Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki who said a "strong, integrated Europe" should be based on a group of sovereign, national member states rather than an increasingly centralised federation as some western states want.
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The watchdog said the investigation was looking at a tender launched by Consip - Italy's centralised procurement agency - in March last year for services supporting the country's auditing authorities regarding programmes co-financed by the European Union.
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The deal does give the partner the right to request in the future the installation of automated mechanical handling equipment in centralised warehouses, using Ocado technology, but the terms of that would have to be separately agreed.
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The Arab Regional Payments System (ARPS) will act as a correspondent for its participants such as banks and financial institutions, through a single, centralised platform for cross-border payments, the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) said on Thursday.
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DUBAI, May 9 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates' cabinet has approved the creation of a centralised sharia authority that will monitor and set standards for Islamic finance in the country, aiming to boost growth of the industry.
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So the UAE and other countries, including Oman, Pakistan, Morocco and Nigeria, have in the last few years been moving towards a Malaysian-style system with a centralised authority that can impose uniform standards on the industry.
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Intended to make financial markets more transparent—and thus, in theory, safer and more competitive—MiFID2 will restrict trading in securities on banks' internal venues and force more derivatives hitherto traded "over the counter" onto centralised exchanges.
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"Steinhoff will continue to be a controlling shareholder in the company, while STAR will continue to leverage off Steinhoff's strategic, centralised sourcing, manufacturing and logistics expertise to maximise operating efficiencies across its retail operations," the company said.
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The former were favourites of Franco during his reign and were, to him, a symbol of a centralised, homogenous, Castilian country, or at least that is how competitors in other regions sought to explain their incredible success.
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The firm still claims to have a family of new clinical diagnostic methods that can reduce the amount of blood needed for testing and that can perform a wide range of tests in centralised and decentralised settings.
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Though the project is a trial, it represents a step toward banks and clients adopting blockchain, a de-centralised record-keeping concept known for hosting payments in cryptocurrencies but confined to experiments in the mainstream business world.
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Ritter said Zalando planned a new centralised warehouse to process shipments of garments from brands before they are sent to regional centres for delivery to customers, as it seeks to increase the efficiency of its logistics network.
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Fitch believes that risks in this portfolio are limited as exposures mostly relate to low-risk money market funds and are further mitigated by Amundi's sound risk control framework, which is centralised and integrated into CA's risk function.
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Though it brooks no dissent and has a taste for strongman politics and centralised leadership, the Communist Party has shown an admirable willingness to let small areas of the country try out reforms before they are introduced nationwide.
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Much of the altruism faded during the first dot-com bubble, as people realised that an easy way to create value on top of this neutral fabric was to build centralised services which gather, trap and monetise information.
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Ethereum would allow developers to program not only smart contracts, but entire "Decentralised Autonomous Organisations" (DAOs)—entities that, like bitcoin, do not need centralised management and operate beyond the direct control of self-interested institutions such as governments.
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OPEC member Algeria's economy has been largely based on a state-run and centralised system since its independence from France in 1962 and it remains reliant on an energy sector that still provides 60 percent of its budget.
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A transition from a centralised economy, beginning in 1985, kept it from an inflationary meltdown, while it also hung on to popular parts of its socialist legacy such as a free national-health service and a decent education system.
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At their heart, argues Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures, a venture-capital firm, these are gigantic centralised databases, keeping track of products and purchase histories (Amazon), users and their friends (Facebook) or web content and search queries (Google).
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After 22 years of rule by Yahya Jammeh, a dictator who suppressed political freedoms, centralised powers within his ethnic group and used the army to instil fear, the country enjoyed its first-ever democratic transfer of power last year.
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Xavier Caitucoli, Chief Executive Officer of alternative energy supplier Direct Energie said that although the plan is a positive first step, there were concerns about some aspects of the plan, notably the centralised tenders for new power production capacities.
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Various Islamist movements over the years have learnt from previous groups' failures to protect themselves and have survived by aborting centralised hierarchical structures and opting to work in "cells" with little or no direct contact to a central organisation.
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It has been hailed by London Review Of Books' John Lanchester as potentially the most important development in the history of money since the Medici bank popularised and centralised the use of the balance sheet in 16th century Florence.
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The plan follows repeated pressure from EU states to scrap the existing system based on a centralised EU-wide rate-setting mechanism, which limits countries' powers to decide reduced levies for specific products, ranging from ebooks to sanitary products.
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First, there is a view, promoted in many initial coin offerings, that everyone will be able to use the blockchain and cryptocurrencies to trade locally-generated energy (rooftop solar, for instance) with each other, without a centralised utility in the middle.
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Maintenance and other costs should be lower for fleets of hailable AVs, because centralised facilities ought to enjoy productivity advantages over distributed mechanics' shops, and because individual owners are at an informational disadvantage to their mechanics, which creates opportunities for overcharging.
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The euro zone has already centralised banking supervision under the European Central Bank, and in the meantime the bloc has launched a capital markets union project to spur more funding for the economy from securities such as stocks and bonds.
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The Decentralised Web envisions a future world where services such as communication, currency, publishing, social networking, search, archiving etc are provided not by centralised services owned by single organisations, but by technologies which are powered by the people: their own community.
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" This system has received significant criticism from those who argue there are serious privacy rights at stake, with civil liberties advocacy group Statewatch asserting last year that it would lead to the "creation of a Big Brother centralised EU state database.
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Analysts said there were big challenges ahead, as Volkswagen strives to cut costs at its underperforming VW brand in the face of union opposition, and reform a highly centralised company structure blamed for lax controls and delays to new models.
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Orban told public radio that Pinter would be responsible for national security under a revamped structure at the top of his cabinet, which would establish a centralised office under Orban that is also in charge of a unified intelligence service.
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Asked to elaborate and help me cut through the data bullshit that most startups push these days, Boldt says that Gousto has a centralised data warehouse, with hundreds of real time dashboards to help power its "amazing data science capabilities".
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He added that Interior Minister Pinter would be responsible for national security under a revamped structure at the top of his cabinet which would establish a centralised office under Orban that was also in charge of a unified intelligence service.
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Like regular currencies, Libra would be highly centralised, an "extremely concerning" setup since it is not backed by a lender of last resort and it is ultimately accountable to shareholders, who are not seen as repositories of public trust, Mersch added.
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Mr Freeman, a historian at Queens College in New York, travels from Britain's textile mills, which centralised tasks that were previously carried out in homes and small workshops, to monster steel and carmaking factories in 20th-century America, Europe and the Soviet Union.
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A possibility for the centralised redistribution of wealth more compatible with the dignity of labour might be endowing all children with "baby bonds", a policy Gordon Brown tried in Britain and which Cory Booker, another senator running for president, champions in America.
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It is possible that they will find a way of delivering the original Monnet-Delors dream of a centralised federation in which Brussels is the government and central tax-raising powers of the EU Parliament are somehow transformed into the equivalent of Congress.
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Bitcoin evangelists recommend steering clear of centralised exchanges, arguing that the whole point of decentralised currencies was to not hand over control to third parties, such as central banks, commercial banks and exchanges, which raises the risk of mismanagement, scams or hacking.
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If heaven's mandate comes from controlling the waters, might the demands of hydrology, including the need for considerable resources and legions of workers for flood control and irrigation, have created the highly centralised, authoritarian states of Chinese dynastic rule, the Communists' one included?
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Banco CLM is highly integrated into the group, including in terms of capital and liquidity fungibility between the entities, hence Fitch assigns a common VR. The group's management is centralised at Liberbank, underlining Fitch's view that individual credit profiles cannot be meaningfully disentangled.
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The euro zone has a partial banking union, a centralised bail-out fund and a European Central Bank (ECB) prepared to act as a lender of last resort, but its architecture remains incomplete and there is little agreement over how to finish the job.
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The idea is that, because blockchains use distributed rather than centralised records and are more tamper-proof than other databases, they can be applied to tasks from streamlining medical record-keeping or trade finance to ensuring that diamonds and other minerals are ethically sourced.
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Humanity has long embraced what Peter Gleick, a scientist who co-founded the Pacific Institute, a think-tank in California, calls "the hard path" to solving its water problems: one that relies "almost exclusively on centralised infrastructure to capture, treat and deliver water supplies".
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The report also said those who enter the city and have travelled from overseas to China in the past 14 days will also be subject to centralised quarantine and testing for the coronavirus, which has killed nearly 3,300 and infected nearly 82,000 in mainland China.
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"To cover all transactions taxed by a future FTT anyhow, a system of self-assessment by financial institutions will have to be put in place, either as an addition to a centralised system or as the core system of tax collection," the document said.
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Migration policies that make sense and command diplomatic support in the abstract—the centralised border force, pre-screening at "disembarkation platforms" in third countries outside the EU, processing centres within Europe and national quotas for the admission of valid asylum-seekers—all run up against national reluctance.
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"We very much look forward to responding to the growing interest in cryptocurrencies through the creation of bitcoin futures traded on a regulated derivatives exchange, with the many expected benefits that this brings, including transparency, price discovery, deep liquidity and centralised clearing," he said in a statement.
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Despite the absence of a centralised operator, says Angela Walch, a lawyer and member of the Centre for Blockchain Technologies at University College London, the coders whose efforts establish the system in the first place and the miners who maintain a cryptocurrency's ledgers do hold power.
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Like most countries in the West, where the licence to exert force tends to be centralised and the security services accountable to public scrutiny, Britain still sees Russia as a state adversary, not as an informal network of people with access to lethal substances and weapons.
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"They've been trying for years to come up with a centralised platform, but people are reluctant to share information," said Adrian Kemp, who runs the consultancy, which was awarded a A$1 million ($757,500) grant by AUSTRAC, Australia's financial intelligence agency, and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission.
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"NBIM believes that the proposed new service by the ECB, which aims to provide a single centralised neutral pan-European process for debt securities issuance, will help to enhance the current ecosystem," the fund said in a letter to the ECB dated Tuesday and published on the fund's website on Wednesday.
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GINGRICH: Look, I don&apost believe that if you look at the total number of things going on, I don&apost believe that an administration that as tightly centralised as the Obama administration, you could have had as many things going on, all of them illegal, without the president having been briefed.
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Mrs May has centralised decisions but is struggling to take some of them: witness the recently leaked memo by a consultant fretting that "no common strategy has emerged" between departments and the prime minister's cryptic warning against a "cliff edge" on leaving the EU (this apparent argument for an interim deal was soon disowned by Number 10).
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The demand for secure solutions covering all the different aspects of a company's IT stack has grown rapidly over recent years, spurred not just by an increased move to centralised applications served through the cloud, but also by the drastic rise in breaches where malicious hackers have exploited vulnerabilities and loopholes in companies' sign-on screens.
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The company has been acquiring, and taking strategic stakes in, a number of connected-home businesses as it builds its own connected home offering, where it not only brings broadband and entertainment to your TV and come computers, it also provides the tools to link up other connected devices to that network to control them from a centralised point.
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Dandelion is "off grid" in its approach to providing home energy, and while you might think that it doesn't make sense for a company that is investing in and peddling services and electronic devices connected to a centralised (equally electricity-consuming) internet to be endorsing a company that's trying to build an alternative, it actually does.
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Even inside China, some historians have long suspected that the country's founding story—in which Emperor Yu tames flooding on the Yellow river (with the help of a magic black-shelled turtle, pictured), earns for himself the "mandate of heaven" and establishes the first dynasty—was either a Noah's-Ark flood-myth or perhaps propaganda invented later to justify centralised state power.
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Changes in life expectancy will be a driver of long-term profitability, as the group is exposed to potential longevity improvements on its large annuity business in the UK. We consider JNL and PAC as 'core' to the group under our rating methodology, based on a history of supporting group objectives, centralised risk, capital and decision-making functions and the resulting geographical diversification benefits.
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Despite some opportunities for new security-related technologies and services to cater to an expanding market, Gartner's Deshpande argues organizations should be doubling down on "basic security and risk related hygiene elements" — citing the likes of threat centric vulnerability management; centralised log management; internal network segmentation; backups and system hardening as some of those key and core security elements which he says are now "more important than ever".
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) said on Tuesday that clearing houses, which are currently supervised by national regulators, warrant strengthened and potentially centralised supervision in the EU. It was responding to a European Commission consultation on whether changes are needed to financial supervision in the EU. The powers ESMA wants stop short of creating a European Securities and Exchange Commission, but would significantly beef up EU-level supervision.
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Built largely on fossil fuel systems and centralised operation models — you have large plants and generators located in one place that distribute their energy to smaller stations, which distribute to individuals — the idea behind Dandelion has been to build a heating and cooling system that is significantly more decentralised: it operates directly from a person's home — or more specifically, underneath it — leveraging the ground's natural state of being 23°F, in order to work.
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