Traditionally, the data processing department has been an organisational entity - independent of all the user departments for which it processes information.

Returning to al-Qaeda for a moment, there is considerable doubt about its existence as an organisational entity, as distinct from an ideological one.

Armed Services is a collective term that refers to the major organisational entities of national armed forces, so named because they service a combat need in a specific combat environment.

This implies a decline in the role of the school as the sole agent of the delivery of education, and the emergence of new organisational entities nourished by partnerships.

The Crowther Centre for Learning and Innovation is organisational entity auspiced by Brighton Grammar School to provide "support services" for "the educational community".

Government agencies (similar but not the same as executive agencies), which are separate organisational entities from the ministries, are fundamentally independent in their handling of individual cases, and only the government (by collective decision-making) can issue instructions to agencies.

Unless existing custodial protection can be extended to include software, the first step towards systematic acquisition will have faltered, and a justification for special provision will need to be articulated ab initio in much the same way as film and sound archives emerged as distinct organisational entities outside the object-centred museum establishment.

Be that as it may, in the latter part of January 1847 the disparate parts of the fledgling German Communist movement began to congeal in a single organisational entity when the London center of the League of the Just first broached the idea of organizational unity with the Communist Corresponding Committee.