Whereas in the 1970s many in the North-East greeted the prospect of a Scottish Parliament with alarm and helped to block it, now many Geordies regard the shift of power to Scotland as something of an inspiration.
The Bill is a big boost for the creation of academies and free schools and, according to government sources, this is in itself a shift of power down to individual school level.
These proposals reflect the desire of supporters' groups to shift the balance of power back in their favour.
When they are, Mr Asada says, the consequence will be a seismic shift of power away from Tokyo to the regions.
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Ms Blears has called for a revival of local political culture, a significant shift of power from the centre to the community and politicians who look and sound like the people they represent.
"This project removes one of the main barriers to the shift to solar power - lack of financing, " said Jyoti Painuly, a UN senior energy planner.
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There are more and more of these stories every week, and they speak to the transformative power and economic opportunity of the global shift to sustainable cleantech industries.
If Bayern's 4-0 win over Barcelona on Tuesday night was supposedly the beginning of a power shift from Spain to Germany, then Dortmund's dominance confirmed it.
It has arisen because of a fundamental shift in the balance of power in the marketplace from seller to buyer.
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The deals to come will shift the balance of power between the big groups, and they will matter greatly to the countries affected.
Perhaps the most radical difference is the shift in the balance of power from merchant to consumer.
"We've seen the balance of power shift from the financing sources to the entrepreneur, " says Wendy Phillips, a venture capitalist at the Menlo Park office of Advent International.
On Monday, the report " Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds" forecast that U.S. economic and international influence will decline in the next two decades as a shift of global power moves from the West to the East, and from the North to the South.
For example, the first phase of the EU Emissions Trading program, which contained several design flaws that have since been rectified, has already been found to have reduced emissions by around 100 million tonnes of CO2 mostly by forcing a shift of load from coal to gas power plants and providing an incentive for inefficient coal plants to improve the thermal efficiency of their boilers.
In 2005 voters in the Netherlands and France rejected a new constitution to shift power from member nations to Brussels, reduce the requirement of unanimity for E.
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With its location at the intersection of three continents, Dubai captures not only the shift in economic power from West to East, but also the rise of the South.
MPs are keen to see any shift of power towards the second chamber.
Innovation that will only germinate when we embrace a shift in perspective towards the power of allowing ourselves to be vulnerable.
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As the trend becomes more pronounced, it is one more indicator of an economic power shift from the west to the east.
The balance of power is about to shift dramatically within the NHS, with GPs and other clinicians given much more responsibility for spending most of the budget in England.
While both Hillary Clinton and Rice are now hotly debated as presidential contenders, a few other women operating behind the scenes are battling to shift the balance of power in Congress toward their parties.
Not all national governments are happy about the apparent shift of power: expect tussles as national leaders attempt to push back.
Like most things, the inertia of power is very hard to shift.
Coming on the back of another (not yet implemented) shift in quotas in April 2008, this promises to alter the balance of power within the fund quite substantially.
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Scandal also contributed to the shift in the balance of power in the House.
One reason for this shift of power is the simple wish of an elderly man to enjoy life a bit.
With the shift in the balance of power in the marketplace from seller to buyer, the customer is now the boss.
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It means recognizing that we are living through an epochal shift in the balance of power in the marketplace from seller to buyer.
Although unlikely to rival the economic might of India and China or the resources of Russia and Brazil, this motley crew of emerging markets make the CIVETS the next band of countries to profit from a shift in global power.
The answer lies in a huge yet barely acknowledged shift of power within government: from the civil-service machine to ministerial personal advisers and spin-doctors.
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