Sentence examples for bloc from inspiring English sources

Blatter is popular in Africa, Fifa's biggest voting bloc, for bringing its first World Cup in 2010 and using Fifa cash to fund hundreds of facilities for national associations across the continent.

The same of course is also true of the Labour-SNP bloc of seats: even if Nicola Sturgeon's party were to win in 30-40 constituencies, and not in the 50 or more implied in the polls, most of those seats would be staying with Labour.

"In this fast-changing world, China and the EU, as the biggest developing country and the biggest bloc of developed countries in the world, share common interests and have a greater need for each other".

King pushed him, and Johnson continued: "I can't get it through, because I need the votes of a southern bloc to get these other things through… it's just not the wise and the politically expedient thing to do".

To get around this scenario, a senior UUP strategist told the Guardian that they would create a united unionist bloc.

"The party has a basic rule that forbids fighting anyone other than Israel and thus it bans its elements from fighting in Syria," Rifai, who belongs to Loyalty to the Resistance bloc, told the Daily Star.

From that time on, Jaruzelski said, Poland became the heretic in the bloc: he moved towards a settlement with Solidarity and paved the way for democratic reforms that led to Wałesa's election as president in 1990.

He was recently elected chairman of a regional bloc of 15 southern African nations and looks set to become chairman of the African Union, while western powers have lifted most of the sanctions against Zimbabwe.

Palmer has also recruited another senator, Ricky Muir, a representative of the Motoring Enthusiast party, to vote with the PUP as a bloc in the upper house when the new Senate sits in 2014.

The EU is an important bloc, but its influence is inexorably waning.

Jagland admitted that the 27-member bloc was not in great shape, wracked by its worst crisis of confidence.