Sentence examples for governing bloc from inspiring English sources

Calls by conservatives for at least a partial ban on face coverings have swelled as the governing bloc — Ms. Merkel's Christian Democrats and a sister party in Bavaria — has lost ground to the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany.

With 99percentt of the vote counted, the governing bloc had won 89 of the 179 seats in Parliament, and the New Alliance Party had won five, The Associated Press reported.

The partial ban has received the support of conservatives from German Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing bloc, but still needs parliamentary approval to become law.

Partial results released Tuesday morning by the Sri Lankan election commission showed Rajapaksa's coalition in a close race with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's governing bloc, each side short of an absolute majority in the multi-party contest.

A large part of the community supports the Free Patriotic Movement, a member of the March 8 governing bloc.

As the leader of the biggest party, Mr Rajoy is desperately trying to form a governing bloc in the 250-seat parliament before it returns on 13 January.

Ezzat Darag, a member of the governing National Democratic Party bloc in Parliament, defended the government's actions.

Their demands about transition fly in the face of government efforts to secure a standstill period in which the EU would expect the UK to maintain all the rules governing the bloc.

At the end of a two-day summit meeting in Brussels, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany made clear her determination to rewrite the economic rulebook for the European Union, even if that means a long and bruising battle to revise the treaty governing the bloc.

Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, said he saw "no impending need to open the E.U. treaties" to address the complaints of countries like Britain that are outside the euro zone and that object to "federal Euroland" rules governing the bloc.

The election observer mission of the Organization of American States, in a preliminary report, said incidents of fraud and intimidation did not affect the overall legitimacy of the election, in which the governing Lavalas bloc of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide appeared poised to win a landslide.