(1) The Soviet bloc

(2) A center-left voting bloc

(3) Let me add two of my many college encounters with regard to the Soviet Union and the communist bloc .

(4) Yet because they maintain a crucial majority if voting as a bloc they can help dictate the eventual appointee.

(5) A parliamentary bloc

(6) It's too soon to call this a party or a bloc , but it is now a visible group with true independence and popular status.

(7) If it votes as a bloc , it will be capable of imposing its concept of the good society on all the other groups.

(8) The Second World War began with Germany's attack on Poland in 1939 and ended with the continent's division into two hostile blocs .

(9) Parties and electoral blocs were free to organize, with few exceptions, and a large number managed to register.

(10) We really do seem to have two voting blocs here that are basically stuck in concrete and are going to go, it looks like, right up to the wire that way.

(11) The parliamentary members tended to coalesce in blocs , which were alliances in support of particular philosophies.

(12) It is depressing to see how people mostly voted in racial blocs .

(13) If so, then the freer we remain the less we need to worry about losing ground in the long run to nations and blocs of nations that aren't as free.

(14) The major blocs in French politics each valorizes a collectivity: the nation, the class, the race.

(15) Individual member states were also in other, competing political and economic blocs , which made integration no easier.

(16) The centre of gravity in Europe is shifting decisively east, to where new blocs and alliances are already forming.

(17) They are almost certain to end up with strong parliamentary blocs .

(18) Arithmetically nothing's happened - five seats lost here, six gained there, but the great blocs of party power are still intact.

(19) They say that trade blocs provide benefits to their members, so they want you to reason that if we didn't join, we would be adversely affected.

(20) Or do we want them to emerge as resentful rivals in a world permanently divided into hostile trading blocs ?