Sentence examples for solidify its grip from inspiring English sources

The acquisition of The Globe in 1993 was part of the company's strategy to solidify its grip on the eastern corridor advertising sector and to have a presence that stretched from Maine to the District of Columbia.

The Brazilian on-demand food delivery company, iFood has picked up $30 million in new financing to expand regionally and solidify its grip over the online food delivery markets South of the US border.

Yemen's government will pass draconian legislation aimed at stifling independent broadcast and online media in a bid to silence opponents and solidify its grip on power, Yemeni journalists and NGOs reported.

"Israel worked on establishing an Israeli-friendly network, both military and civilian, inside southern Lebanon," Abu Abdullah, one resident of southern Lebanon, who grew up under the Israeli occupation, told Syria Deeply, adding that Israel capitalized on and manipulated the local population's sectarian and anti-Palestinian sentiments to solidify its grip.

The case has brought into sharp relief a fierce battle between the country's secular establishment — including intellectuals, judges and business elites — and a governing, Muslim-inspired party that has solidified its grip over the country since it came to power in 2002.

The rebel coalition, known as Seleka, the word for alliance in the Sango language, solidified its grip on the capital, Bangui, and pledged to stick to the terms of an earlier transition plan negotiated in neighboring Gabon that was to lay the groundwork for new elections in two or three years, Reuters reported.

Instead, the government has focused on solidifying its grip on a strip of land that extends from the capital, Damascus, in the south, up to Homs in the country's center and west to the coastal area heavily populated by Mr. Assad's sect, the Alawites.

We see already now what an Iran without a nuclear weapon is doing — destabilizing Yemen and solidifying its grip on Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and the Gaza Strip.

But those machines likely will help IBM solidify its hold on the high-end server market.

Pittsburgh (5-1) had seven sacks and solidified its hold on first place in the A.F.C. North.

Major League Soccer is still struggling to solidify its appeal.