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83. Devolution, which is the redeployment of power from the central Government to the representatives of the State in the departments (departmental authorities), has not really worked, and the heads of departments interviewed during the various visits all argued that their managerial role, without human resources and with no capacity for budgetary action, was in practice an empty shell entirely dependent on the ministry to which they were attached.
83. La desconcentración, que de hecho es un nuevo despliegue de competencias del poder central a los representantes del Estado en los departamentos (dirección departamental), en realidad no funciona, y todos los directores departamentales entrevistados durante las diversas misiones manifestaron que su dirección, sin recursos humanos y sin capacidad de actuación presupuestaria, era en la práctica una cáscara vacía totalmente dependiente del ministerio al que estaba adscrita.
Except it was no egg, and not nearly an empty shell.
Excepto que no era un huevo, ni siquiera una cáscara vacía.
Now time had eroded it to an empty shell.
Ahora, la erosión la había convertido en una cáscara vacía.
I left behind an empty shell, without a consciousness.
—Dejé allí una cáscara vacía, sin conciencia.
He was the empty shell of the man I loved and married.
Era la cáscara vacía del hombre que amé y con quien me casé.
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