Xi rapidly consolidated power after assuming party leadership in late 2012 and then the presidency the next year.
Consolidated will assume $3 million in the communications unit's debt.
América Móvil, the wireless telephone company controlled by the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helú, will buy the wireless company BCP, based in São Paulo, for $625 million in cash and assumed debt, consolidating its dominant position in Latin America.
An older and probably more-wealthy senatorial class, or aristocracy, in the West consolidated its great estates and assumed a form of protection or patronage over the labouring rural classes, depriving the state of desperately needed military and financial services.
Ever since Bertelsmann, the German media conglomerate that owns the publishing group, appointed Markus Dohle, formerly head of the company's printing unit, to head Random House in May, most people assumed he would consolidate some imprints and make staffing changes.
UBS consolidated four affiliated mortgage lenders and assumed their domestic retail operations.
Assume that demand elements are consolidated on a daily basis.
Because none of Gediminas' siblings had strong heirs, Gediminas and his children were in a favorable position to assume and consolidate power in the Grand Duchy.
A year ago, most commentators assumed that the 2012 parliamentary elections would consolidate the ruling party's hold on power.
Judging by some of the descriptions of her regal roles while in power, including the general honorific "carer for Egypt", she effectively consolidated the Theban power base in the years before Ahmose assumed full control.
Had only one been in the race, and assuming similar voting levels, that candidate would have consolidated around 42% of the vote: more than the first-place finisher, David Perdue, but not quite enough to avoid a runoff.
