Sentence examples for he was consolidating from inspiring English sources
Back in the 1990s, when he was consolidating his stardom and working his id in epochal comedies like "Billy Madison" and "The Waterboy," Mr. Sandler's puerile aggression had a naughty, anti-authoritarian kick.
Since August, the team has discovered 50 trenches containing the skeletons of what may be thousands of the 39,488 people the post-Soviet government reckons were executed by Stalin's secret police while he was consolidating absolute power.
In his speeches in the 1970's and 80's, when he was consolidating power and even during the chaos of the Iran-Iraq war, Mr. Hussein, while never an orator, gave a sense of determined purpose.
In the years he was consolidating his power base, Kim Jong-il was credited with masterminding a 1968 commando attack on the South Korean presidential palace in Seoul and the 1976 ax killings of two American military officers at the border, said Baek Seung-joo, a North Korea specialist at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses.
Among the 18 executives named in the jaw-dropping indictment released that day by the US department of justice was Warner, the Trinidadian former Concacaf president, a veteran of ticketing and bribery scandals who was one of Blatter's closest allies when he was consolidating his grip on world football.
(As with Donald Trump, Bolsonaro's "populist" gestures served mainly to distract from the support he was consolidating among the reactionary fancy classes).
Having achieved a complete remission at all metastatic sites on first-line chemotherapy, he was consolidated with high-dose chemotherapy (HDC) followed by stem cell transplantation (SCT) and irradiation to the primary site.
He's consolidating the destruction of democracy.
He is consolidating ownership of the buildings he developed, buying the stakes of his Japanese financiers.
He is consolidating his four shops into one which will be located in a tax-payers building on 57th Street.
For now, random and sometimes brutal eliminations allow the young leader to demonstrate the power that he is consolidating.
