Sentence examples for consolidate around from inspiring English sources

He dropped out of the race a few weeks later as establishment support begun to consolidate around the eventual nominee, Bob Dole.

The idea would be to consolidate around two populous regions, central Helmand and Kandahar, and the main road between them.In this section Out of tune Tactical retreat?

"Regardless of who takes the lead, we collectively as a national society have to consolidate around three or four different ideas," Mr. MacDonald of I.B.M. said.

"Both parties wanted exactly this, they wanted to consolidate around a candidate early," Mike McCurry, the former spokesman for President Clinton, said on CNN.

The idea is that Iraq, which an Iraqi official recently described as "a country near death," will somehow begin to consolidate around the government of Prime Minister Maliki, and the violence will somehow begin to subside.

Wisconsin can have a rebellious political culture and would not necessarily be the first state to consolidate around an inevitable-seeming nominee, especially considering how poorly Mr. Romney did in neighboring Minnesota.

It's the latest shot in the battle for dominance in the market for software training content — a sector that is increasingly consolidating around larger, better-funded companies.

"We all consolidated around the object quite quickly," Gardner said.

Audiences are at once fragmenting into niches and consolidating around blockbusters.

Then, as now, the not-Romney vote seemed to be consolidating around a single rival candidate.

Or at least a "we" could be consolidated around these beliefs.