Previously separate forces such as Strathclyde are now amalgamated.
This time round, three previously separate Arab parties are running together on a joint list tipped to do well.
Our age has seen an almost complete conflation of the previously separate spheres of the private and the secret.
Ominously, Congress acquiesced to NASA's request for authority to help pay the bills with dollars from the previously separate science account.
Calatrava has also opened up most parts of the building to the public, as part of a pedestrian route that connects two previously separate areas of the city.
Sony had long espoused vague ideas about exploiting the convergence between previously separate digital devices and forms of media.
It has, for example, chunked together four previously separate diagnoses, including autism and Asperger's syndrome, into one disorder of varying severity, known as "autism spectrum disorder".
Data scientists at Kaggle, a pattern recognition start-up in which Mr. Elbaz has invested, have matched previously separate data sets on buyers, colors and after-purchase problems.
With the transition to fast, flash storage, previously separate parts of computing, like networking, computer servers and storage, are merging into one another.
But though bringing such hospitals to heel may help in gathering statistics, their previously separate status does not help explain why Beijing's SARS figures were so seriously understated.
Thompson said the expected reduction would see the force of 7,667 officers "come close to being the size it was in 1974", the year West Midlands police was founded from the merging of the region's previously separate police services.
