consolidation
n[U]
consolidating or being consolidated 巩固; 联合
the consolidation of the party's position at the top of the opinion polls 在民意测验中该党名列第一的地位得以巩固.
There are even stories of half-trained elephant calves who have refused to feed and pined to death when by some unavoidable circumstance they have been deprived of their own trainer.