This is consistent with their concern for the rights of entities rather than individuals.
This is the first time England has played as such: the World Bridge Federation now recognizes England, Scotland and Wales as separate entities, rather than Britain.
Imagine also that the display screen and the computing functions that drive it become separate entities rather than part of the same thing.
In doing so, the majority embraced an open-ended concept of state immunity that sees it as an aspect of the states' "dignity" as "sovereign entities," rather than anchored in the actual constitutional text.
This could be done by expanding the products covered, perhaps to include trusts or foundations, or by applying the law to legal entities rather than just individuals, Mr. Kovacs said.
Foreign funding of civil society organizations (CSOs) is antithetical to democratization, he said, as it makes civil society leaders accountable to foreign entities rather than their own members, turning the concept of democratic accountability on its head.
This travesty of the truth has been given force by the way in which these groups have been represented in the media as alternative political entities rather than, echoing Byrne, gangsters.
Their findings led Koffka, Wertheimer, and Köhler to stress the holistic approach that psychological phenomena cannot be interpreted as combinations of elements: parts derive their meaning from the whole, and people perceive complex entities rather than their elements.
Politicians sometimes avoid creating identifiable victims when they raise taxes, as they do, for example, with the corporate profits tax, which seems to be paid by abstract entities, rather than real people.
The name string theory comes from the modeling of subatomic particles as tiny one-dimensional "stringlike" entities rather than the more conventional approach in which they are modeled as zero-dimensional point particles.
Both these ideas treat crowds as entities, rather than groups of people — an idea that has its origins in 19th-century sociology, which, according to scientists studying crowd behavior today, is deeply flawed.
