They used elections to monopolize power, denigrate adversaries and solidify ties with Islamist hard-liners.
The vote, scheduled for Dec. 7, will test Mr. Yushchenko's drive to solidify ties with the United States and Europe and steer Ukraine, part of the former Soviet Union, toward membership in NATO, a step that would be likely to antagonize Russia.
Warby Parker, the hip purveyor of retro-style glasses, has solidified ties with two of its most prominent fans.
Instead, they have solidified ties with Salafist hard-liners in the Islamist camp; derided opponents, including many secularists, as "enemies of Egypt"; and demonized Shiite and Coptic Christian minorities.
Batista moved to the right, solidifying ties with both the wealthy elite and the United States, severing diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, suppressing trade unions and persecuting Cuban socialist groups.
Challenging the Conservative government's militarism, the GLC proclaimed 1983 to be "Peace Year", solidifying ties with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament CNDD) in order to advocate international nuclear disarmament, a measure opposed by the Thatcher government.
Hoping to solidify ties yet further, Venezuela participated in a recent BRICS summit in Brazil.
The labor council has extended invitations to Gov. David A. Paterson, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and scores of other politicians, many of whom will no doubt attend a pre-parade breakfast at the Roosevelt Hotel to show their support and solidify their ties with labor.
Specific goals To solidify economic ties with Southeast Asia, Washington should define and pursue specific objectives that deepen economic ties between it and the United States.
He is being strongly backed by the former king, Mohammad Zahir Shah, who recently returned to Kabul after decades in exile, the officials and diplomats say, and he has solidified his ties with several powerful former leaders of the Northern Alliance.
Whether as a child or an adult, such show of love and care solidifies your ties with home.
