Our weight has been added to, not distinguished from, that of the countries of the Soviet orbit and the Afro-Asian bloc in their support of Egypt.
The protests were picking up again, led now by a smaller, more militant group, the anarchist Black Bloc, who had smashed shopwindows and set fires in Rio and São Paulo, in support of striking teachers.
Their mobilisation in support of immigrants would make a big difference to the national conversation, divide the anti-immigrant bloc and help hold back the racist tide.
Sadr, a Shia cleric who led uprisings against the US before American forces withdrew last December, is an influential player in government after his bloc's support of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki helped secure al-Maliki's position.
The two remain embroiled in a dispute over the bloc's support of an independent Kosovo, about which Vuk Jeremic, Serbia's young, pro-European foreign minister, said Tuesday, "Serbia will not consider ceding one millimeter of ground".
In 1993 he founded his own political party, the Nonpartisan Bloc for Support of Reforms (BBWR – the initials echoed those of Józef Piłsudski's "Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government," of 1928 35, likewise an ostensibly non-political organization).
The pro-Kuchma bloc commands the support of former Soviet industrialists in the southern and eastern regions of the country where Russian is still the predominant language.
Mr. Norcross would deliver a solid bloc of support in the seven South Jersey counties.
The Green Party's bill collected only 17 votes in the 230-seat legislature; the Left Bloc's won the support of 11 lawmakers.
From conferences and meetings in Western Europe and the United States and from dissidents in the Eastern bloc, messages of support were arriving with every post outside the main gate.
