1.   Cities are not independent entities - they reflect national and regional considerations.

2.   Corporate power is not merely a matter of the resources and Market share of formally independent entities.

3.   At the beginning of the novel the people are unconscious of self, to the extent that parts of the body are treated as independent entities.

4.   An approaching tide of internal defections could not be halted, experts said, if Andersen survived as an independent entity.

5.   Another is to join with the handful of moderate-sized military contractors that remain as independent entities or to purchase related units from larger companies.

6.   Baptist churches are independent entities that call, or hire, their own clergy and lay leaders.

7.   But soon after, Wal-Mart, determined to tackle the problem more systematically, spun off the site into an independent entity with venture capital backing.

8.   China considers Taiwan as a renegade province, while Taiwan sees itself as an independent political entity of a temporarily divided China.

9.   Ciena managers said they were disappointed that the deal fell through but would proceed as an independent entity.

10.   Conceived as a fiscally independent entity financed predominantly by private funds, see United States Trust Co. v.