1.   Democracy has been consolidated.

2.   He also urged that the trans-Atlantic partners work together to expand NATO and aid former Soviet bloc nations in embracing free markets and consolidating democracy.

3.   On political reform, the NPC chief said last month that China must develop systems and legal codes to consolidate democracy.

4.   Putin now has the chance to consolidate democracy in his country.

5.   The alliance is being expanded simply to consolidate democracy in Europe and to enable NATO to better confront post-cold-war threats.

6.   This, I believe, can take us one step further in consolidating democracy.

7.   US officials said they welcomed the new administration as another healthy sign of consolidating democracy in Chile.

8.   Aleman has promised to consolidate democracy in the desperately poor nation.

9.   And efforts to consolidate democracy have been hampered by corruption, cronyism and court systems too weak to function.

10.   The Clinton administration, however, praised the elections as free and fair and said they were an important step in consolidating democracy.