Sentence examples for had a bloc from inspiring English sources

By 2007, he had a bloc of six seats in the senate.

By 1999, he had a bloc of seats in the state assembly that owed allegiance to him.

Having a bloc of votes under presidential control proved a masterstroke.

Asked about the differing opinions in the church, she said in an interview, "We don't have a bloc vote".

(The 2008 data is from exit polls in which by definition there are no undecided voters; the 2012 data still have a bloc of the undecided).

"With the end of the cold war, there is no reason to have a bloc mentality," he told Russian diplomats at a meeting in Moscow.

"They held the elections before just to show the United States that elections would bring Islamists, who are organized and have a bloc".

The foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, resigned and his group of six in the Knesset declined to join Mr Netanyahu's new coalition, which as a consequence will have a bloc of only 61 in the 120-seat parliament.

"Whichever constituency, whatever your former party allegiance, think of what it would mean to have a bloc of Ukip MPs at Westminster large enough to hold the balance of power," he said.

The Committee must let the attorneys know they will have a bloc of support on the Hill.

Residents of 62% of the county are underrepresented on the LACMTA board, while the city of LA has a bloc which gives it outsized voting power.