1.   Those who did well out of coffee growing started employing labourers and consolidated their control over the best land.

2.   Persons who, pursuant to an agreement or understanding, actively co-operate to obtain or consolidate control of a company by acquiring its shares.

3.   Persons act in concert if, pursuant to an agreement or understanding, they actively co-operate to obtain or consolidate control of a company by acquiring its shares.

4.   Another pink slip has been handed out at the Joseph Papp Public Theater as George C. Wolfe consolidates his control.

5.   As its troops consolidated control in Erbil, there were indications that Iraq might be prepared to attack other parts of the Kurdish enclave, the official said.

6.   Besides raising money for the war effort, the practice helped consolidate control over the peasantry.

7.   A failure to accept that possibility makes people accede to demands that put their lives at progressively greater danger as criminals consolidate their control over them.

8.   But even those provincial forces have limited strength, and Hun Sen seems to be on his way to consolidating full control.

9.   But if Bashar Assad consolidates control, he might be able to make the deal his father could not.

10.   But Les Hells have sought to consolidate control in Montreal only in the last couple of years, the police say.