Sentence examples for a sizeable block of from inspiring English sources

The conservative speaker was promptly ousted and replaced by Joe Straus, who depended for his election on a sizeable block of Democratic votes.The mild-mannered and charming Mr Straus has turned out to be a bipartisan and moderate figure, though he insists that he made no promises to the Democrats who backed him.

If that level of support continued, it would give Miss Megawati's PDI-P a sizeable block in the DPR, Indonesia's lower legislative body.

Sizeable blocks of seats will be reserved for the army, and the commander-in-chief will have extraordinary powers.

Though the shop itself -- with its white-fringed blue awnings -- is rather small, Nasto's takes up a sizeable chunk of the block.

With a solid morphostat block, a sizeable number of aberrant cells were created.

North of the A11, hemmed in by the Olympic park and Westfield, is the 1968-built Carpestate estate, a sizeable site of tower blocks, low-level flats, houses and neat green spaces, which in the last 10 years has gone from being an area of land worth next to nothing to a piece of prime property.

She seems to have done a lot of work on the latter objective: I have to put an entire large block of cheddar in, and a sizeable slab of gruyère.

A sizeable number of transcripts (391) were excluded because they contain pig repeats (red block in the pig column on Figure 1).

It keeps a sizeable amount of cash off the books.

But there have been a sizeable amount of stinkers, too.

A sizeable number of Tory MEPs are anti-European zealots.