1.   Five months later, Diem consolidated his power.

2.   Foremost among these was his need to consolidate his power.

3.   This seemed the best way to draw the wavering states away from Washington and consolidate Southern power.

4.   And when politicians suffer a crippling charley horse in the conscience when they use war criticism to consolidate personal power, it might be over.

5.   As he consolidated his power, Salinas made a very public effort to fight corruption.

6.   As her life with Mao proves lonely and difficult, her motivation changes to consolidating power, imprisoning and executing her opponents, and achieving immortality.

7.   As the KGB-military-oligarch clique consolidates power behind Putin, it faces a new U.S. president with firm ideas about a national missile defense.

8.   At every level in Iraq, petty mafias are consolidating their power over monopolies of one kind or another.

9.   Basically, Sonju enveloped himself in a web of finger-pointing deceit, all in an attempt to create doubt among his bosses and to consolidate his power.

10.   Behind the scenes, Lucchino consolidates power in a modernized Sox front office.