Sentence examples for bloc on from inspiring English sources

From the 1950s to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, there was intense athletic rivalry between the Soviet bloc on the one hand and the United States and its allies on the other.

People do not always form one bloc on all subjects.

"We stated this categorically in a note at the meeting," said Debabrata Biswas, general secretary for one of the communist parties, the Forward Bloc, on Wednesday.

There are seven members of the conservative bloc on the board, but they are often joined by one of the other three Republicans on crucial votes.

Entire teams can resign en bloc on a trifle.

Those legislators formed a new bloc on Friday called Future and Liberty for Italy.

The Greens are the fourth largest voting bloc on the floor of the EU parliament.

Instead, he called a secret ballot of the party's parliamentary bloc on Tuesday to decide the issue.

Calls for an "anti-capitalist anti-fascist bloc" on Inauguration Day had begun circulating soon after the election in November.

Mr. Benizri said the parties would vote as a bloc on the issues that mattered most to them.

Compared to small-scale cylinder-on-plate and bloc-on-ring tests, friction coefficients measured on large-scale tests are much lower due to large polymer transfer, while wear rates are much higher.