Sentence examples for ideological bloc from inspiring English sources

"There is now an ideological bloc in Congress that says we can't change Medicare," he said.

Of course, Europe's far right does not represent a cohesive ideological bloc.

Yet the board has some power, as last week's vote showed, and a determinedly ideological bloc can organise accordingly.

According to a recent Gallup poll, 31% of Americans identify themselves as both, making economic and social conservatives the biggest ideological bloc in the country.

Brazilian businessmen are forever complaining that Mercosur is now an ideological bloc, not a trade pact - although some Brazilian companies are doing well out of infrastructure contracts in Venezuela.

Indeed, there were signs here that Latin America might be breaking up into ideological blocs.

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.

Its central understanding is that all economic thought is relative not just in terms of competition between nation states and ideological blocs, but within them, too.

We recognise that environmental degradation, not conflict between competing ideological blocs, is the pre-eminent issue which unites the wealthy and the developing world in common peril.

Ideological blocs get their grease, too: Western progressives, Northern liberals, all these groups have to be addressed specifically, not only in terms of their economic interests but also of their specific identities.

But in Israel's coalition system of government, individual parties are less important than ideological blocs, and most recent polls have suggested that Ms. Livni and other existing opposition candidates will have a hard time taking enough votes from right-leaning and religious parties to prevent Mr. Netanyahu from winning a third term.