The Yoruba capitals were externally allied both by a confederation of rulers with the ooni (oni; "king") of Ile-Ife at its head and by a series of interlocking arrangements between the ruling families of each state.
The hills run from near Suez to the Sudanese border; they are not a continuous range but consist of a series of interlocking systems more or less in alignment.
So Farmville is essentially a series of interlocking systems based around planting crops, harvesting them and getting in-game cash to spend on new items – which can then be fed back into the agricultural process.
Kotkin proposes a series of interlocking arguments to explain the Stalinist outcome: the conspiratorial rigidity of Bolshevism; the state's total domination of life in the absence of private property; the peculiar personality of Stalin; and the pressures of geopolitics.
The agreement involves a series of interlocking commitments on welfare reform, a balanced budget and public sector redundancies .
'There are a series of interlocking cells.
She radically re-imagined the novel genre by writing a series of interlocking stories.
The rest of the house is conceived as a series of interlocking zones.
At a breezy 113 pages, it charts pretty much the entire 20th century, through a series of interlocking lives.
Mr Chirac's now-defunct, centre-right party, the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR), was, they say, funded for years by a series of interlocking scams.
But with so many volatile elements in play, including a series of interlocking scandals in Greece that are gaining momentum, analysts said that it was unclear if the Samaras government could survive under the pressure.
