The dynasty tried to eradicate local warlords and concentrate power in its hands, but this in fact only increased the level of hostility.

He was concerned for the good of the collective and ever suspicious of those who wished to concentrate power in the hands of the few.

And union mergers have concentrated power in fewer and fewer hands.

They have concentrated power in the hands of the apparat and its activist followers.

The problem with the 'trusts', to use the term of the time, was that they concentrated power in private hands to the detriment of the commonwealth.