Very few of them will exist as independent entities in 2010.

By taking away their unique language the government gave them one less way to identify themselves as an independent entity.

They can be a part of a big organization or an independent entity.

These parties continued as independent entities until the 2009 election.

Today, China's court system is far from an independent entity that can curb government power.

Social Security, they say, isn't really an independent entity - it's just part of the federal government.

The colony was one of the first such independent political entities.

The company had existed as an independent entity for less than a year.

And they now feel their work is an independent entity, with a life of its own.

The company is an independent entity of its own, separate from the state government.