These banks fear that entities like Fannie Mae, which guarantee the loans, have become a lot more demanding when asking banks to take back troubled loans.
Scottish and Newcastle balked at the prospect of Philip Morris's owning a large stake in the new entity; it feared that Philip Morris's plan to sell the stock eventually would depress the share price, people close to the talks said.
I do know there is no entity more feared, more hated by the mullahs who run Iran, than the MEK -- which is perhaps the finest compliment that could be paid to that organization".
Grameen transferred the ownership of the Norwegian funds from one Grameen entity, fearing its tax-exempt status might be changed, to another.
But those who hope for the emergence of a Superpower Europe that can rival the United States -- and those who fear such an entity will be an anti-American menace -- will have their expectations disappointed.
The government is loath to bring criminal charges against a corporate entity, fearing job losses and economic damage, but will pursue a case if it believes that the wrongdoing at the company is pervasive or condoned by management.
In addition, consumers have traditionally been reluctant to share personal information with any non-human entity, fearing some misuse or privacy invasion.
Mixing among people of many faiths, writing copious observations for readers and correspondents back home, and bringing Arabic and Turkish texts back to England, the pashas helped shape British understanding of the Ottoman empire as an entity to be feared, respected and at times admired.
Consumption of large quantities of alcohol was an "essential component", he told Keppel, and later Michaud; he needed to be "extremely drunk" while on the prowl in order to "significantly diminish" his inhibitions and to "sedate" the "dominant personality" that he feared might prevent his inner "entity" from acting on his impulses.
