Sentence examples for vote bloc from inspiring English sources

Indian elites have not forgotten that eighteen years ago the LTTE killed the grandson of Jawarharlal Nehru, India's political founder; while at the same time the central government does not want to stir the ire of a crucial vote bloc of 60 million Tamils in one of the country's largest states during an election cycle.

But since Shas has a linchpin 17-vote bloc, its support prevents any immediate parliamentary motion to dissolve the faltering government and provoke a political crisis in the midst of an unsettling diplomatic one.

Ms. Snowe, typically a favorite target of Democrats as they try to build a 60-vote bloc to break filibusters, said that Republicans representing Democratic states — or vice versa — tend to push the debate toward the middle to appease their diverse political constituencies.

His internal support remains solid despite a shaky stretch for a leader who has managed to confound and frustrate Democrats and President Obama for much of the past two years, even when Democrats controlled a 60-vote bloc that was, theoretically at least, sufficient to overcome a Republican filibuster.

"We're a pretty good voting bloc".

That's a mighty big voting bloc.

"[Young people] are a voting bloc.

Latinos: This is the fastest-growing voting bloc.

So what will this critical American voting bloc do this year?

Demographic ascendance is producing a burgeoning ethnic voting bloc nationwide.

Catholics, once a solidly Democratic voting bloc, are now fractured.