Sentence examples for has consolidated control from inspiring English sources

Under Mr. Putin, the state has consolidated control over television, which airbrushes real news.

Barcode follows the adventures of a group of digerati rebels, the Data Jammers, as they hack away at the edifice of global domination by Earth Corp., the parent corporation that has consolidated control over most of the globe.

The Assad regime has consolidated control over most of the country and all its major cities.

They add that he has consolidated control over the security apparatus by establishing extra-constitutional security bodies.

Now, press freedom has dwindled as the Kremlin has consolidated control over media, particularly by forcing the sale of independent television stations and newspapers to government-friendly owners.

Many opposition politicians and independent journalists have been arrested, prosecuted, attacked and even killed over the last year as the Kyrgyz president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, has consolidated control in advance of elections on Thursday, which he is all but certain to win.

Now "our" warlords -- and by extension our counterterrorism strategy -- have been dealt a crushing defeat by the Islamists, as the latter have consolidated control of Mogadishu.

Ownership of Curlin, the reigning Horse of the Year, remained divided after a judge's surprise ruling rejected a proposed sale that would have consolidated control of the horse under Jess Jackson.

The President and his national-security advisers have consolidated control over the military and intelligence communities' strategic analyses and covert operations to a degree unmatched since the rise of the post-Second World War national-security state.

The President and his national-security advisers have consolidated control over the military and intelligence… In July, 2003, two months after President Bush declared victory in Iraq, the war, far from winding down, reached a critical point.

ROGEBAN, Libya — Having consolidated control over almost all of Libya's western mountains, rebel leaders here say they are now pursuing a two-pronged strategy to bring down the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi: starving it of resources while covertly arming a growing guerrilla force within Tripoli itself.