It has clear goals — preserving the Assad regime and its access to critical ports, preventing an Islamist victory that could destabilize Russia and consolidating influence, while simultaneously eroding U.S. influence in the Arab world — and a clear strategy for achieving them.
In the south, the elite few pursued an agricultural-based economy which would lead to their control of political power through consolidating influence in state and local governments.
Now, more than at any point in modern history, Iran and Saudi Arabia are squared off against each other as a race to consolidate influence nears a climax from Sana'a to Beirut.
With the U.N. talks achieving little success, the Sochi conference is part of a broader Russian push to consolidate influence in the region and hammer out a road map to end the almost seven-year conflict.
Today there were reports that Iran is working to consolidate influence with a local ruler in the city of Herat by sending aid shipments, which may include weapons.
Turkish officials have repeatedly pointed to Kurdish manoeuvres along its 500-mile frontier as evidence of a plan to move Arabs from the area and create a buffer allowing the Kurds to consolidate influence in the area.
She gets how mainstream authority in America impels markets, the state, the elite, the media and religious groups to consolidate influence and keep the opposition in check.
Despite his place as the establishment's first choice candidate for many months now, Rubio has failed to consolidate influence among the establishment.
"This is just a consolidating day".
Further studies have demonstrated that patients with VKH disease who were HLA-DRB1*0405-positive recognized a greater range of melanocyte epitopes than HLA-matched control subjects [[38]], consolidating the influence of HLA-DRB1*0405 in affecting the susceptibility to VKH disease.
"I think it's not a coincide that it coincided with the period of time of Kim Jong-il consolidating his influence behind the scenes in the propaganda and entertainment department, and absolutely was part of the state's drive to lay the groundwork for the first succession in North Korea," Richardson told me.
