Sentence examples for several blocs from inspiring English sources

The independent candidates include several blocs of prominent business people, as well as a number of "B-list" Baathists, not figuring on the party's main ballot.

The last decade, however, witnessed the emergence of new power-centers with the ability to restructure the world into several blocs.

The nooks and crannies of the facade became the most popular urinal in a several bloc radius.

Inside the stadium, there were several big blocs of Puerto Rican fans waving flags and chanting Puig's first name.

Mr. Mashhadani said during Wednesday's news conference that he had been forced to resign as part of a plot by several parliamentary blocs to depose Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's Shiite-led government.

This is significant, if true, because Israeli leaders have argued that ultimately a deal with the Palestinians will allow it to keep several settlement blocs and neighborhoods in East Jerusalem in exchange for land swaps.

But John Weaver, a Republican strategist who worked on the presidential campaigns of Senator John McCain and Jon M. Huntsman Jr., said that the attention Republicans were paying to social issues at the state level could cost the party support from several important blocs of voters, including independents, women and young people voting for the first or second time.

That requires a strategy of disengagement from the Palestinians -- even unilaterally if necessary -- and a gradual process of establishing secure, defensible borders, demarcated so as to encompass more than 80percentt of the Jewish settlers in several settlement blocs over about 15percentt of Judea and Samaria, and to ensure a wide security zone in the Jordan Valley.

This also justifies the need to continue because the system could end up with several rival blocs or power centers in the future.

Peru is an active member of several regional blocs and one of the founders of the Andean Community of Nations.

That was consistent with the judgment Wednesday of the European Commission, which gave France and several other bloc members additional time to meet the bloc's mandated budget deficit targets.