With three further mergers in each of 2009 and 2010, and a demutualisation and a merger in 2011, the current number of building societies is at 47.

With the completion of the merger in 1970, the Cleveland Browns were moved to the AFL-based American Football Conference and placed in the AFC Central, the same division as the Bengals.

With the merger, there was the challenge of what to call the new movement.

* With regard to a European company formed through a merger, the standard principles relating to worker participation will apply where at least 25 % of the employees had the right to participate in decisions before the merger.

With the merger of the AFL and NFL the Colts and Jets were placed in the new AFC East.

* 1998 – With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business.

With the 1996 Time Warner merger, the channel's archives gained the later Warner Bros. cartoon library.

The merger was also the subject of a book Taken for a Ride: How Daimler-Benz Drove Off With Chrysler, ( 2000 ) by Bill Vlasic and Bradley A. Stertz.

With the Disney merger, Touchstone Television began to produce the bulk of ABC's primetime series.

With the merger of Shanghai Medical University and Fudan University in April 2000, the two graduate schools were joined to be a new Graduate School of Fudan University.

With this merger it also acquired the imposing Dutch conductor Willem Mengelberg.

With the 1998 merger of Daimler Benz and The Chrysler Corporation, the company was renamed DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG on November 7, 1998.

With this most recent merger, the elementary school is located in Gildford.

With the municipal reform in the 1970s, Värmdö was created through a merger between six small municipalities and adopted the coat of arms of Gustavsberg, with two porcelain ovens.

With this merger, a great deal of Steele County is now groups for extracurricular activities together, laying the groundwork for a possible future merger of the entire region into one school district.

With this announcement and with no clear goal, the PFP face an uncertain future which could speed up any merger with the Kuomintang.

With this merger, the company began to sell off their land holdings in the area.

They initially disapproved of the merger, With bankruptcy imminent and no other purchasers interested, the authority gave the green light on 23 October.

With the merger of the Wallasey and Birkenhead fleets in 1969, the ferries lost their Wallasey colours to be replaced with the primrose yellow and powder blue of the MPTE, and latterly emerald green and black.

With the acquisition of the Bank in Baden in 1906, the bank gained a branch in Zurich and a seat on the stock exchange, one of the cornerstones for the successful merger in 1912 with the Toggenburger Bank to form Union Bank of Switzerland.

With the merger of Loyola University and Marymount College in 1973, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange joined the Society of Jesus and the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary as one of the sponsoring religious communities of Loyola Marymount University.

With the merger of Carlton and Granada on 2 February 2004, the brand became ITV1 Central.

With the first overall selection in the 1961 NFL Draft, the Vikings selected running back Tommy Mason of Tulane.

With the Oakland Raiders wearing their white jerseys at home for the first time ever in a game against the San Diego Chargers on September 28, 2008, the Seahawks have become the only NFL team to have never worn their white jerseys at home.

With that improvement, the team was sold to Robert Kraft in January 1994 for a ( then ) record price of $ 200, 000, 000 — an astonishing price considering the Pats had generally been considered a laughing-stock and second rate team, had the worst stadium in the league, and couldn't sell out save for select home games resulting in most games going without television coverage — sports in New England centered on the beloved Bruins, Celtics and Red Sox, not the NFL team orphaned in remote Foxborough, Massachusetts, forty miles outside Boston.

With the maturation of quarterback Doug Williams and future 4-time Pro Bowl tight end Jimmie Giles, the first 1000-yard rushing season from running back Ricky Bell, and a smothering, league-leading defense led by future NFL Hall of Famer Lee Roy Selmon, the Bucs kicked off the season with five consecutive victories, a stunning performance that landed them on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

With his 199th career sack, broke Reggie White's all-time NFL mark ( Smith finished the season with 200 career sacks ).

With a sports division now established with the arrival of the NFL, Fox acquired over-air broadcast rights to the National Hockey League ( 1994 – 99 ), Major League Baseball ( since 1996 ), and NASCAR auto racing ( since 2001 ).

With the uncertain labor situation, the WFL had the opportunity to provide players with a better deal than the NFL would give them, along with the promise of employment.

With the relative financial stability of the Birmingham and Memphis clubs, both attempted to join the NFL but were refused.

With respected college and NFL coach John Ralston as the first employee, Dixon signed up 12 cities — nine where there already were NFL teams and three where there were not.

With 1, 021 rushing yards in 2001, Smith became the first player in NFL history with 11 consecutive 1, 000 yard seasons and the first to post eleven 1, 000-yard rushing seasons in a career.

With this change, five of the six teams in the league's final incarnation were from Germany, with one from the Netherlands, leading some of the league's detractors to refer to it as ' NFL Deutschland ' or ' NFL Germany '; even speculating that the Admirals were only still in the Netherlands because they had won World Bowl XIII, and it wouldn't look good if the league moved its champions, or simply to justify its " European " identity by keeping one team outside the German borders.

With Wilson graduated and in the NFL, McMahon beat out Royce Bybee to claim the starting quarterback position.

With the onset of World War II, NFL suspended its National Tournament.

With the exception of the three teams that have direct descendants still in the NFL, the Chicago Bears, Arizona Cardinals and Dayton Triangles ( whose remains reside in the current Indianapolis Colts — or the St. Louis Rams, depending on the perspective ), Buffalo was the longest-lived of the league's original teams.

With a population well under a thousand people, LaRue remains the smallest town ever to have been the home of an NFL franchise, or probably any professional team in any league in the United States.

With their 1920 success ( and a crackdown by the NFL on playing non-league teams ), the Lumberjacks joined the league in 1921 as the Tonawanda Lumbermen or Tonawanda Kardex, named for ( and presumably sponsored by ) the office supply company of the same name, still in business today .< sup ></ sup >

With that, he expected to be chosen in the third or fourth round of the 2003 NFL Draft.

With no NFL teams willing to give him a chance, Warner turned to the Arena Football League in 1995, and signed with the Iowa Barnstormers.

With the support of running back Marshall Faulk and wide receivers Isaac Bruce, Torry Holt, Az-Zahir Hakim, and Ricky Proehl, Warner put together one of the top seasons by a quarterback in NFL history, throwing for 4, 353 yards with 41 touchdown passes and a completion rate of 65. 1 %.

With quarterback Peyton Manning, wide receiver Marvin Harrison, and running back Edgerrin James, the Colts had scored 79 points in their 2 playoff victories against the Denver Broncos and the Kansas City Chiefs, including a 38-31 victory over the Chiefs in the first puntless game in NFL playoff history.

With his TD catch against Green Bay on November 29, Owens became the first player in NFL history with at least one touchdown catch and six receptions in seven straight games.