Sentence examples for coherent bloc from inspiring English sources

The priority that individual states give to pursuing their own national interests challenges their ability to function as a coherent bloc.

This should not however be taken to suggest that donors act as a coherent bloc directing the Global Fund.

Emerging markets fall well short of a coherent trade bloc, but they may find common cause.

R. Scott Appleby, a professor of Catholic and religious history at the University of Notre Dame in the United States, said that among American Catholics, there was no longer a coherent voting bloc.

Yet I remain sceptical of the widespread progressive idée fixe that the super-duper wealthy constitute a coherent political bloc, unified by common interest and ideology, that works to rig the politico-economic system to their narrow class advantage.

A consistent, biddable bloc it is not.

So the implied suggestion that religious authorities represent a coherent and significant political bloc simply because they are religious authorities is nonsense.

But the sorting of Congress into coherent right and left blocs has also involved the near-extinction of the once common Northeastern liberal Republican.

This helps fuse ideological blocs into coherent, hard-to-dent juggernauts.But such claims have the opposite effect on anyone who doesn't belong to the ideological base.

These might have been recruited individually from pools existing within the primitive eukaryote (e.g., from mitochondria), but an en bloc recruitment of this coherent collection of enzymes can also be envisaged (de Duve 2007).

From 1899 to 1905 a fairly coherent coalition of left-wing and centre parties (the so-called Bloc Républicain) provided France with stable government.