devolve

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It added that under devolved school management, each school could implement mobile phone policies to "match the context of their individual setting".

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That will be the point, they fear, that they lose so many of their councillors or devolved parliament members – and so the foot soldiers that so many local political campaigns depend upon.

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In the Senedd, Davies said he wanted "equality for our country within the United Kingdom", having earlier argued that policing powers should also be devolved to Wales.

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"It was pandemonium and chaos," another attendee, who identified himself as Barry, said as he described watching a throng of people trying to escape the scene that had suddenly devolved into a nightmare.

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But he demonstrated Wednesday that his leadership remains intact—and strong enough to prevent tension in the Fed’s dual mandate from devolving into deleterious tension within the committee.

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