Sentence examples for election bloc from inspiring English sources

In recent days, the Obama administration has once again stepped up its efforts to court support for the law, sending out mailings to women in battleground states, reaching out to Hispanic voters, another critical election bloc, and enlisting "nurses for Obama" nationwide to advocate for the law.

Mr. Mutlaq, a member of Parliament since 2006, held the No. 2 spot on the ballot of Iraqiya, a secular coalition of Sunnis and Shiites that has emerged as a strong rival of the election bloc led by Iraq's prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.

"No, it's not possible, while there are other laws which ban the creation of election blocs".

That is why I have already pledged that a post-election bloc of SNP MPs will be prepared to vote on the English NHS, to restore and protect it as a proper public service, rejecting the pernicious impact of privatisation and protecting Scotland's budget in the process.

At the time, there were worries that the change of Ukrainian leadership would drag the country away from the European Union, and since the election the bloc has expressed worries about worsening human rights in Ukraine.

Although he ran in the latest election, his bloc won only 10% of the vote, with the majority of voters rejecting austerity.

His deputy, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va)., is not expected to challenge him, but during the last election a bloc of insurgent tea partyers threatened to derail Boehner's election by depriving him of the 218 votes he needs to hold the gavel.

Or is he more of a centrist, as he said in the South over the weekend, who can appeal to general-election voting blocs that have seemed highly antagonistic to each other?

His fiery rhetoric has also struggled to gain him voters: at the last election, the Left Bloc lost half of its MPs.

Next Sunday, too, votes for the Greek parliament could lead to the election of a bloc opposed to austerity measures regarded as necessary to secure bailout funds.

With each election this decade, the Bloc has bumped downstairs, winning 54 parliamentary seats in 1993, 44 in 1997 and 38 last Monday.