(1) An amalgamation of two separate companies

(2) There is a national procedure for amalgamations involving a joint managerial body and provision for a set of discussions leading to preferences for amalgamation .

(3) The threat of amalgamation with a competitor

(4) The threat of amalgamation with another college

(5) How do communities stay intact in the midst of the hurricane of forced political amalgamations , wider bureaucratic policies and gigantic conglomerates?

(6) But Moloney is opposed to mergers or amalgamations .

(7) The number of religious secondary schools has fallen from 472 to 380 in 15 years, mainly due to closures and amalgamations .

(8) Soon after the club went out of existence and did not return to competitive fare again until 1940 when the club was reformed following a number of amalgamations within the parish.

(9) There will be some amalgamations - some are already in train.

(10) There are implications here too for areas with falling numbers and proposals for school amalgamations or closures.

(11) Emslie admits that no-one is sure how the industry will evolve and that mergers, acquisitions and amalgamations are on the horizon.

(12) We will fight for these cuts to be reversed and for no amalgamations .

(13) By that time it was halfway into reorganising itself for April 2001 into 42 new areas, eight of which were amalgamations needing new budgets and plans.

(14) That presumably means potential closures or amalgamations .

(15) The job losses are a combined result of school amalgamations , closures and budget shortfalls across both the primary and secondary sector.

(16) By 1928, again through the process of absorptions and amalgamations , there came to be only 12 factories.

(17) If there is one argument against amalgamations , this is it.

(18) And yet at the same time, the death of a language takes with it a disappearance of a culture, amalgamations which ultimately limit the diversity in the way we communicate and the way we think.

(19) All of these will be automatically assimilated into the new school, but as is the practice with all school amalgamations , an enhanced early retirement scheme will be on offer.

(20) Mr. Forde said that experience in Ireland and abroad did not confirm that large scale amalgamations of cooperatives were a guarantee of successful future development or of clear benefit to shareholders.