Sentence examples for sizeable blocks of from inspiring English sources

Sizeable blocks of seats will be reserved for the army, and the commander-in-chief will have extraordinary powers.

The conservative speaker was promptly ousted and replaced by Joe Straus, who depended for his election on a sizeable block of Democratic votes.The mild-mannered and charming Mr Straus has turned out to be a bipartisan and moderate figure, though he insists that he made no promises to the Democrats who backed him.

If that level of support continued, it would give Miss Megawati's PDI-P a sizeable block in the DPR, Indonesia's lower legislative body.

Blocks upon blocks of boarded-up homes.

Roughly 4.5percentt of Canadians list their ethnic origin as Chinese — nearly 1.5 million people — and make up sizeable voting blocks in numerous swing constituencies across the country.

The stairways were flanked and separated by ramps that terminated in sizeable masonry blocks at the top.

North of the A11, hemmed in by the Olympic park and Westfield, is the 1968-built Carpestate estate, a sizeable site of tower blocks, low-level flats, houses and neat green spaces, which in the last 10 years has gone from being an area of land worth next to nothing to a piece of prime property.

Though the shop itself -- with its white-fringed blue awnings -- is rather small, Nasto's takes up a sizeable chunk of the block.

With a solid morphostat block, a sizeable number of aberrant cells were created.

"This represents a potential sizeable stumbling block to the already challenged fiscal compact," Rabobank said in a research note.

She seems to have done a lot of work on the latter objective: I have to put an entire large block of cheddar in, and a sizeable slab of gruyère.