devolve

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Most people would rather devolve this sort of responsibility to the authorities.
大多数人宁愿将这种责任移交给当局。
These arguments relate little, if at all, to the business problem at hand and tend to devolve into pedantic arguments of semantics.
这些争论根本与手头的业务问题关系甚微，如果有的话也非常少，并退化为书生气十足的语义学争论。
It ended with the intervention of a NATO ceasefire monitoring force and the government promising to devolve greater political power and cultural recognition to the Albanian minority.
在北大西洋公约组织的干涉下，和政府允诺移交更多政治权利，以及认同阿尔巴尼亚的少数民族的文化，结束了这场对抗。

"If we devolve or get to a two-tier it will weaken the alliance and we will have much work to do.

In modest ways, the city itself tries to devolve some of its own powers.
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He should resist the temptation to use them, and instead devolve power away from the presidency.
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If you devolve power, authority, or responsibility to a less powerful person or group, or if it devolves upon them, it is transferred to them.