His power was consolidated last summer, when the French police detained the senior E.T.A. leader, Ignacio Gracia Arregui.
His case was consolidated last week with similar, earlier lawsuits brought by families of some victims of the attack and by other property owners.
Some officers have retired and have not been replaced, and those who remain gained much broader duties and territories when fishery and wildlife agencies were consolidated last year.
The appeals were the first to reach the court after dozens of suits against the government and telecommunications companies over N.S.A. surveillance were consolidated last year before the chief judge of the federal trial court here, Vaughn R. Walker.
It consolidated 2,800 people into two buildings from five, eliminated its offices and desktop computers and added "jump-in" rooms for private conversations and phone calls.
Four pairs of institutions were consolidated this year, but the Savannah universities were not included, and a second round of mergers is not expected in the near future.
The federal government filed notices of appeal in both decisions and gained the extra time when the two cases were consolidated earlier this month.
Her position as queen of comedy (in what has been largely a boys' club) will be consolidated this summer with the release of Ghostbusters.
The new entente was consolidated a year later, when French moves to take over Morocco as a protectorate were resented by the Germans, who thought they saw an opportunity to break up the new entente.
The report said that credible accusations were also made against employees of the F.B.I., the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Immigration and Naturalization Service; most of the immigration agency was consolidated earlier this year into the Department of Homeland Security.
"We have consolidated last year's strong gains and I am confident that we have gained further market share".
