And while the region is often portrayed as a single entity, this is misleading.
From a business standpoint, the NFL, like any sports league, has always predominantly acted as a single entity.
Another possible, though less likely, outcome is that Vodafone and Verizon could merge to form a single entity.
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The XFL, by contrast, was a single entity under the leadership of Vince McMahon , the WWFE's chairman.
Vivendi and Vodafone will probably merge their fixed-line assets into a single entity.
This week, the group said it will bundle its disparate e-commerce activities into a single entity, to be called Bertelsmann E-Commerce Group.
Kerr also pointed to companies that want to consolidate 10-20 servers into a single entity as prospective users of the new system.
Not just for security types and sociologists, but also for theologians, Britain and its ex-dominions in South Asia are virtually a single entity.
States must also establish a single entity to receive Internet sales tax revenue, so retailers don't have to send them to individual counties or cities.
Overall, the middle class will not vote as a single entity.
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"Restricting common generic strings for the exclusive use of a single entity could have unintended consequences, including a negative impact on competition, " the country's government wrote.
As Africa emerged from colonialism in the 1960s, some leaders such as Ghana's Dr Kwame Nkrumah argued that Africa could only survive as a single entity.
It would lose that weapon if the NFL is treated as a single entity, forcing it either to accept the owners' future demands or to strike.
The fact that there were so many separate affiliates also meant that a single entity could declare bankruptcy without dragging all the affiliate companies down with it.
In March its two biggest components his own Forza Italia and the National Alliance, which grew out of the neo-fascist movement united in a single entity, the People of Freedom.
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The four players in the backline must operate as a single entity, pushing up and dropping deep simultaneously to catch opponents offside and starve them of time and space.
It turns out that the NYSE's usual corporate governance requirements don't apply to foreign firms or those with 50% or more control in the clutches of a single entity.
Boeing, the world's largest aircraft maker, has said it will merge its defence, government, intelligence, communications and space operations into a single entity that will employ nearly 80, 000 people.
In conceiving the exhibition, the curators were especially inspired by Mr. Hamilton's work and his belief that human and machine share a "dream-like life, " having come to act as a single entity.
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By the end of the year, News Corp plans to float its global satellite TV businesses as a single entity, Sky Global Networks, with stock market listings in London and New York.
Rationalisation is a popular strategy at the moment: in addition to merging the various inspection bodies, the government has plans to weld the Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise into a single entity.
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If we were to assume the Plains States forming a single entity, the U.S. would be broken into 27 new states, freeing up 23 statehouses and all the costs of running those extra governments.
Whereas the appeals court had held that the NFL could be considered a single entity only in the context of licensing, the league is asking the Supreme Court to grant that status to all aspects of its business.
Pro forma first came in vogue in the merger-mad 1980s, as it was used to help investors see what the new combination would have looked like financially had it been a single entity for the previous year or so.
Ultimately, if yoga is to be conceptualized as a single entity, we have to take into account all parts of it, good, bad, and ugly, according to Traci Childress, who works with Omega Institute on their annual Being Yoga conference.
At some point, therefore, it makes sense to conduct the associated transaction within a single legal entity rather than on a market.
Zogenix's painkiller Zohydro is a single-entity product containing hydrocodone -- a narcotic painkiller.
Economic liberals, racists, homophobes, the wrong sort of feminists and male-bonding groups are seen as a single malevolent entity.
CASA, the top European military-aerospace firms, insisting that they would love to come together in a single corporate entity if only governments would help them solve certain problems.
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