"bloc about" is not a grammatically correct phrase.
Instead, "talk about" or "discuss" would be more appropriate and commonly used. For example: - Incorrect: The speaker gave a bloc about the importance of education. - Correct: The speaker gave a talk about the importance of education. - Correct: The speaker discussed the importance of education. - Incorrect: The article focused on a bloc about climate change. - Correct: The article focused on a discussion about climate change. - Correct: The article talked about climate change.
Of Britain's 1.6 million Muslims, Pakistanis make up the largest single bloc, about one million.
The last one looked into so-called "mad cow" disease and extracted proposals from the 15-nation bloc about tighter food safety.
Tomas Sedlacek, who served as an economic adviser to former President Vaclav Havel, noted that in the 1990s, the West lectured the former Eastern bloc about the need to privatize and deregulate.
His arrival began a week of meetings with European defense ministers, during which the United States is expected to reassure allies in the former Communist bloc about their prospects for joining NATO and the West, even as Russia seeks to show former Soviet republics and satellites that doing so comes at a price.
Additionally, a significant percentage of that bloc – about half, according to the Prison Policy Initiative – are black, who overwhelmingly vote Democrat.
Moscow, Gehl's first foray into the former Communist bloc, came about after a presentation last year in Montreal.
Take the 10 Southeast Asian nations in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, known as Asean, a regional economic bloc representing about 600 million people.
He did not analyze elephant jokes, one of several genres discussed by Holt, nor did he live to see the rise of Eastern bloc jokes about long lines, food shortages and bureaucratic ineptitude.
But Boehner, too, showed signs of paving the way for compromise Saturday, convening a meeting of the Tuesday Group, a bloc of about 45 moderate Republicans whose votes would be key to pushing any deal through the House.
But the unimpressive performance of the Liberal Democrats stood as a potential obstacle to that plan, since a Liberal Democrat bloc of about 60 seats would be likely to leave Labour and the Liberal Democrats together with barely as many seats as the Conservatives.
However, a shareholder bloc representing about 40% of a company's equity can have a strong chance in any vote, because small investors and index funds frequently do not vote in AGMs and EGMs, lowering easyJet's chances of seeing off its founder.
