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.
In fact, it is the most decentralized movement in the world today.
The whole proposition can be decentralized for the good of the service.
He has a social consciousness and a social passion of his own, but it is decentralized, one might say.
The plan is national in scope and operation, yet it is decentralized.
New marches were formed, traversing the previous Lombard fabric and introducing divisions that decentralized the kingdom.
1840 (implied in decentralized), probably a back-formation from decentralization. Related: Decentralizing.
