This was the most centralized bureaucratic state the world had yet known.

As a strong, centralized state, France had few legal impediments to such action.

Being a very centralized state, it took till the 1990s to have the local administration given more focus.

This revelation also caused many to consider why they needed a centralized state that so obviously could not care for its people.

Local government traditionally had limited power in Egypt's highly centralized state.

The committee's proposal would make Georgia's system similar to the centralized state public defender systems in 25 other states.

And the instinctive fear of a centralized state remains as strong today.

"Russia was created as a centralized state, and it has existed exactly this way," he said.

But this type of development was more evident in the centralized royal states.