Sentence examples for small bloc of from inspiring English sources

Even a small bloc of members of Parliament that once aligned with Mr. Ahmadinejad has largely given up, officials said.

Mr. Massa, 41, will lead a small bloc of 16 politicians in the lower house of Congress.

But, with his small bloc of parliamentary seats, he has spent his career moving from one faction to another, making and breaking Lebanese governments.

WASHINGTON — The hard-line stance of Republican House members on the government shutdown is generating increasing anger among senior Republican officials, who say the small bloc of conservatives is undermining the party and helping President Obama just as the American people appeared to be losing confidence in him.

And so, though the Slovenes were initially hopeful losers as they exchanged postmatch pleasantries with the English players and applauded their small bloc of Slovene fans, they were soon reeling from the unlikely news that Landon Donovan had produced a winning goal for the United States in Pretoria.

But he became a leader in the Brotherhood after his return to Egypt, and he won election in 2000 to the Mubarak-dominated Parliament, and was chosen to lead the Muslim Brotherhood's small bloc of 18 members, playing a key role in the group's experiments in multiparty democracy and coalition-building.

Islamists, including the mainstream Muslim Brotherhood as well as a smaller bloc of ultraconservatives known as Salafis, have won about two-thirds of the votes in the first round of parliamentary elections.

Among the candidates she had chosen to run with her as regional councillors are several hardline figures once kept at arm's length from the party by her aunt, including Philippe Vardon, a former leader of the small Bloc Identitaire, which is even further to the right than the Front National.

A surprisingly small bloc (16 percent) thought China would have the best rating of the lot, while 34 percent picked the United States.

trades, all small blocs, are now electronically executed.

What Zinki and Ayubi did was to bring together those small blocs into one big organisation but the largest role was played by those small blocs".