A bloc of Democratic convention time Wednesday night was set aside specifically to highlight gun issues, with emotional appearances by survivors and relatives of those killed in the mass shootings at the Connecticut elementary school, the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., and the Emanuel A.M.E.
Disembodied voices from the eastern bloc sit over recordings of time signal pips, speak-and-spell machines, wartime submarines.
But Bill Clinton won this bloc of voters both times he ran.
"I was told that he was a fanatic," said Edward McMillan-Scothe the leader of the Tory bloc of MEPs at the time.
That would mean, in effect, a four-year process with Britain waltzing out of the bloc some time after the scheduled 2020 election.
At the same time, a large bloc of antiwar Democrats unwilling to provide new money for the conflict voted against the financing, causing it to fail on a 149-to-141 vote.
The current plan to buy back spectrum from television companies and sell it to wireless carriers is a bad idea in his eyes, as we're selling a bloc of public assets for a one-time fee.
America should have prepared for today: saving for the time when that large bloc of people switched from being taxpayers to entitlement recipients.
The bloc of Democrats from the conferedate states had, time and again, strangled reforming legislation and, particularly, attempts to enfranchise black Americans.
PRAGUE — The Czech government lost a parliamentary vote of no confidence on Tuesday, suffering an embarrassing defeat midway through its presidency of the European Union and casting doubt on the country's ability to shepherd the world's biggest trading bloc during a time of economic crisis.
