Sentence examples for bloc on the 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.

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.

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

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

"There is much fear," said Mohammed Khalil, the leader of the Arab bloc on the provincial council.

The left-wing bloc, on the other hand, would struggle to come up with more than 56 seats.

The various freelance joint Israeli-Palestinian variations on the 2000 Clinton parameters have them all – maybe a one-to-one land swap to compensate for settlement blocs on the Palestinian side of the green line that would stay in Israeli hands, and the division of Jerusalem with the Arab Eastern sector as the Palestinian capital.

Social conservatives -- still one of the largest political blocs on the right -- point to the Bible as a basis for the death penalty.

To reach its pretty hilltop you have to drive through the sprawling settlement of Gush Etzion, one of the largest of Jewish settlement blocs on the West Bank, close to the 1967 border.

If passed, the referendum would introduce a system that would force small parties to coalesce into two blocs on the right and the left.

In his mid-twenties, he won the presidency of the Harvard Law Review because he was the only candidate who was trusted by both the conservative and the liberal blocs on the editorial staff.