Sentence examples for powerful bloc from inspiring English sources

The seven once formed a powerful bloc.

But such a move would also alienate farmers, one of Japan's most powerful bloc of voters.

For years they have benefited from the powerful bloc voting of their Senate delegation.

While the opposition may claim a moral victory, its dream of forming a powerful bloc in parliament is dead.

With polls suggesting a tight race, neither candidate wants to risk alienating a powerful bloc like the Jewish vote.

"Between the mentality of the powerful bloc run by competent, educated people and the mentality of 'trust the people'".

There are already murmurings that potential African-Caribbean candidates are being squeezed out by powerful blocs within the Labour party.

Parliament has gone unattended as Iraq's most powerful blocs have tried for seven months to negotiate an agreement on the government's top posts.

Perhaps the most egregious was a last-minute budget item on infertility, a pre-Election-Day reward primarily to powerful blocs of Orthodox Jewish voters in Brooklyn and Rockland County.

Exhaustive television coverage attracts mainly political wonks, but the conferences can present hazards for the party leaders, especially when powerful blocs are close to open revolt, or at least in vigorous dissent.

At least two of his bodyguards died.Democrats were also worried by Mr Haftar's hostility to the country's elected congress, Libya's proto-parliament, where various Islamists, ranging from the Muslim Brotherhood to hardline Salafists, have formed powerful blocs.