By the mid-1890s Barnato's Witwatersrand interests had been amalgamated into the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company.
But beneath that rapid growth, many members of the city's electorate especially in the suburbs, which had been amalgamated in 1998 were feeling the strain.
Although some departments have been amalgamated, the main bureaucrats have all kept their jobs, leading to an abundance of deputy directors (which also makes dealing with Beijing difficult).
By that time the Medes had lost their distinctive character and had been amalgamated into the one nation of the Iranians.
Then, late last month, she went to pay a cheque into the Marsack account, only to be told this was not possible as the two accounts had been amalgamated under the name of Airlie.
If you've read The Rum Diary, you'll notice that certain characters and events have been amalgamated, erased or enlarged, often cleverly and wisely, but that Robinson's gentler tone is slightly at odds with Thompson's marvellously splenetic and bilious prose.
In Thursday's announcement, the Ministry of Justice said that six prisons would be closing, as well as one of the three jail facilities on the Isle of Wight that have been amalgamated with each other.
Although subsequently touted as the "new" aspect of evolutionary theory in the guise of evolutionary developmental biology, many of the old ideas that Gould and others espoused in the 1970s and 1980s had been amalgamated under the banner of "heterochrony," a term coined by Haeckel.
A different approach is used when dealing with cases like Re Faraker, which dealt with a situation where the charity named in the gift had been amalgamated with others.
Still, it was never meant to be like this, so fast and furious a victory for their mortal enemies, the Red Liberal Beast their party had been amalgamated to destroy.
