With several event risks in the form of two central bank meetings, and with the ever-publicised US non-farm payrolls data later this week, equity markets are mainly consolidating before deciding on the next move.
Diplomats and pundits rush to assure us that what we're really seeing in north Africa is just an oriental variation on the east European uprisings of 1989, or the subsequent "colour revolutions" – uprisings that served mainly to consolidate rather than challenge the global status quo.
But right now this is mainly about consolidating text-based messages.
"This round is mainly to consolidate our position in the markets where we are, in Spain, Mexico, Peru and Chile, and also to expand our operations to additional markets.
Two other fragments in southeastern China, the Huan'an and Dongnanya, have basements that had been consolidated mainly in the late Proterozoic and that also may have rifted from Gondwanaland sometime during the middle Paleozoic.
The assumption is that memory representations are formed while an animal is awake and interacting with the environment, and these memories are consolidated mainly while the animal is asleep.
In the past he has consolidated power mainly at the expense of Sunni Arabs and Kurds.
The day clinic is mainly focused on consolidating techniques the patients have learned, enhancing mindfulness in daily-life, promoting self-care and self-knowledge, coping with the individual illnesses, and advising patients about lifestyle.
Attendance has halved since the 1980s, mainly because the industry has consolidated into a small number of mega-farms rather than lots of minnows, he reports.
Though IS appeared to have consolidated its grip on the mainly Sunni province of Anbar, some Shia militias, invited in perhaps surprisingly by local Sunni tribal leaders, have made advances.
