Other rightwing factions, including Tea Party-aligned congressmen keen to translate the upset of Cantor into their gain in the upper ranks of the GOP, appeared to be coalescing around Jeb Hensarling, another Texan.
WITH eminences like Larry Summers sparking new interest in the idea of "secular stagnation", a particular view about the macroeconomics of the pre-crisis period seems to be coalescing.
The left in America defines "extremism" as any disagreement with progressive dogma.The American right is simply coalescing around an idea that, while not new, is regaining ascendancy; government is too big, it spends too much, and is intruding upon individual liberty.
An equally plausible read is that last-minute deciders tend to be low-information voters who swing for the establishment candidate.11 32 : Mr Barbour's argument that now is the time for Republicans to begin coalescing around John McCain is already getting a lot of air time.
Past arrests of suspected militants in Canada, Germany, Britain, France and Jordan, as well as the United States, leave a picture of like-minded individuals providing one another with frequent support, occasionally coalescing into groups for specific attacks.Many of these comrades, including Mr bin Laden, made one another's acquaintance while fighting in Afghanistan.
For Italy, which has become the biggest net contributor and fears its position will worsen, paying in to the EU makes getting its finances in order even harder.Countries are coalescing around loose (yet often divided) groups.
More and more investors are coalescing into groups, hopeful of reaching the threshold at which they can instruct mortgage-pool trustees to act against servicers (25% of note-holders in a given issue).
But it does accuse four international oil traders of "coalescing to dominate" the Iraqi oil market during the final years of Saddam Hussein's regime by dint of paying the surcharges.
The world's 221 international airlines are coalescing into a first division, consisting of four groups (see chart), and a long tail in the second division, keen to win promotion or confused about what to do next.
The fear, rather, is that with all the state institutions now in conservative hands the unelected centres of power are coalescing behind a single hard line and taking over all the top jobs.
In December two Supreme Court judges were sacked.Opposition is coalescing.
