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Mr. Icahn and his main partner, Southeastern Asset Management, together own more than 12.5 percent of the company's shares, posing a formidable bloc of opposition.

As an evangelical Christian, he is the most prominent member in Washington of the Christian Zionist movement, a formidable bloc of conservative Republicans whose support for Israel is based on biblical interpretations, sometimes putting them to the right of Israeli government.

Among hard-liners, who still form a formidable bloc in the Communist Party Central Committee, and in the population at large, Azerbaijan may seem to discredit the very idea of decentralization.

That combination creates a formidable bloc that spans the country's two largest ethnic groups.

Mr. Shaw said the Nationalists could still cobble together a formidable bloc in the Legislature by allying with a third party that split off from the Nationalists in 1999.

In highly politicized Long Beach, where elections can turn on slim margins, the tenants posed a formidable bloc, and the council postponed action.

Finally, creating a fairer and sounder tax system would mean taking on the formidable bloc of conservative Democrats in the House.

The show of support crystallized the gay community as a formidable voting bloc, making one of the first historic turns in the gay rights movement.

The reason is that the governors, all of whom won office last October, have organized into a formidable political bloc that has harshly criticized the central government for everything from the handling of finances to the drug war.

Still, Tea Party conservatives are a formidable voting bloc.

If we have learned anything from the recent election, however, it is that Latinos are a formidable voting bloc.