Sentence examples for bloc work from inspiring English sources

As Mr. Chubais and Mr. Deripaska were doing the political bloc work, the two men were also negotiating a business deal.

It is currently showing "Under the Iron Curtain: Modern Art From the Soviet Bloc," work by 18 artists made in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc after the death of Stalin, when restrictions on artistic expression were relaxed and artists were finding their way out of Socialist Realism into more recognizably modernist and personal visions.

Thirty, twenty, ten years ago it was commonplace to think of Europe as a trade bloc and of the growth of European companies, European brands and European flows of capital - and then to debate the internal rules, disciplines and institutions necessary to make the trade bloc work.

The cardinals in the Roman bloc, who work in the Vatican bureaucracy, number only 38 and come not just from Italy but also from other countries.

Figures released Friday showed euro zone unemployment rising to a new high in October, with nearly 19 million people — 11.7 percent of the 17-nation currency bloc's work force — without jobs.

But it is far from clear how a temporary exit from the 19-nation euro currency bloc might work.

The problem for Mr. Turnbull will be corralling that bloc or working with the opposition Labor Party to pass laws.

As history has regularly shown, picking the best club side en bloc rarely works, even in the most dominant days of Neath, Pontypool or Bath.

In recent years, East Germany's marginal status has inspired the country's best writing: Herta Müller's controversial Nobel prize is a tribute to an eastern bloc writer working in German.

If the U.N. can't help us, this poor, dispossessed Muslim nation, then who is it for?" Many Kurds believe that Iraq's friends in the U.N. system, particularly members of the Arab bloc, have worked to keep the Kurds' cause from being addressed.

But his prospective opponent — no one has thrown a hat in the ring, though a men's bloc is working on enlisting a particular candidate — wants to make sure that men can have a refuge where they can play their ancient game of bowled balls, without feminine interference.