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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Equally, so-called autonomous bodies are subject to a high degree of central government control.
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However, as we have seen, central government has always had power to control capital spending and still does.
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Market testing procedures in central Government have often taken far too long.
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Mr Yeltsin's appeal looks like a gesture of despair after his failure to influence the central government .
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Overall, more diversity in local spending priorities emerged in the 1980s within the constraints central government imposed.
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The risk was to be shared by central government , local authorities and building societies.
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Welfare benefits, local and central government were most affected.