Sentence examples for consolidating positions from inspiring English sources

By nightfall there were also reports of Isis forces moving towards the ethnically sensitive city of Kirkuk and consolidating positions throughout Nineveh province, which borders the Kurdish north and Arab centre of the country.

The Sunni Muslim insurgents, led by an al-Qaeda offshoot called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), have been consolidating positions in Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown, which they took on Wednesday, after capturing Mosul, Iraq's second city.

Employees would be affected by the budgetary adjustments of eliminating or consolidating positions.

For Assad, the main concern may be less about IS and more about fighting groups like Jabhat al-Nusra, which is consolidating positions in territories to the northwest and putting pressure on regime strongholds like Latakia.

Byng planned for a healthy reserve for contingencies that included the relief of forward troops, help in consolidating positions and aiding the 4th Canadian Division with the capture of the Pimple.

Although he recommended then that the city streamline government by consolidating departments, there was "no plan or conscious effort to consolidate positions," he said.

It expanded its own authority to consolidate positions, assign work and subcontract, which resulted in layoffs and loss of pay," the union said.

"The market continues to grow, and the leader continues to consolidate position," he said.

Callahan paid $2.7 billion for a big system, consolidating its positions in the North Rhine and Baden-Württemberg regions.

Security forces were consolidating their positions in the south and southwest of the town of Razmak, he said.

Isis fighters are within 30 miles of Aleppo, the largest city in Syria, and have been consolidating their positions elsewhere.