But the block-grant provision of the Congressional bills would shift such authority to the states.

His opponents also accused him of shifting too much authority to the party leadership, while reducing the power of local associations.

We should be careful about shifting the criteria and authority for medical decision-making, for the sake of either compassion or finance, away from the legal requirement of informed consent.

A complex arrangement would shift authority gradually from the current Planning Commission and the Board of Estimate to the new Planning Commission and the City Council.

But it's another reason we need to shift authority and security in Iraq to Iraqis as soon as they can handle it.

It also shifted to the states immense authority to determine how to craft their individual welfare and work programs.

It will shift most authority from the school system's central bureaucracy to parents and principals.

Members of the new Congress frequently invoke the amendment to explain why they want to shift decision-making authority from Washington to the states.

In this, they conspicuously followed the model of the political and consumer movements of the era, which shifted authority away from experts and institutions to individuals.

He has announced plans to shift resources and authority from the central office to the schools.