| Parties and electoral blocs were free to organize, with few exceptions, and a large number managed to register. |
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| Strategies to nurture the party's attractiveness to blocs of non-white voters will be increasingly important as the population changes. |
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| Or do we want them to emerge as resentful rivals in a world permanently divided into hostile trading blocs? |
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| Individual member states were also in other, competing political and economic blocs, which made integration no easier. |
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| The majority of settlers are concentrated in two main blocs along the northern border and southern Mediterranean coast. |
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| The days of the two great immovable blocs of seats held by the major parties alongside a minority of perpetual marginals is long gone. |
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| The fight for control of the oil is a fight for control of power of one bloc of capitalists over other blocs of capitalists. |
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| What the proposals amounted to was a plan to trisect the West Bank into three cantons by annexing blocs of settlements. |
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| In addition, there are significant individual holders of blocs of shares and institutional shareholders. |
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| The centre of gravity in Europe is shifting decisively east, to where new blocs and alliances are already forming. |
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| Maintaining these blocs rigid and unchanged was the key to peace and security. |
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| 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. |
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| Deals and manoeuvres are still being made, and there has been no final determination of international axes and power blocs. |
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| Nonvoting young people represent one of the largest swing-voter blocs out there, and we better get more effective at how we target them. |
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| It is to be expected that each of the world's blocs have their own interests and will try to protect them. |
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| The parliamentary members tended to coalesce in blocs, which were alliances in support of particular philosophies. |
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| The Second World War began with Germany's attack on Poland in 1939 and ended with the continent's division into two hostile blocs. |
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| Will it be a World War in the sense of two blocs of allied forces fighting each other? |
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| Several blocs within the alliance are vying for top government positions. |
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| Nice places to live, where the kids can run through the hilly yards behind sandstone apartment blocs. |
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| They are almost certain to end up with strong parliamentary blocs. |
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| Eighteen political parties and five electoral blocs are running. |
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| 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. |
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| It is depressing to see how people mostly voted in racial blocs. |
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| Eschewing the model of the totalitarian monolith, Neumann's was the first influential attempt to analyse the structures of the regime in terms of a multitude of power blocs. |
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| 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. |
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| The New Deal Coalition consisted of politicians, special interest groups, including labor unions, and voting blocs that supported New Deal initiatives. |
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| Thanks to the good intensions of all parliamentarian blocs concerned, the policy statement could see the light at last, he added. |
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| Regional voting blocs were formed in 1961 to encourage voting to various UN bodies from different regional groups. |
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| Several trade blocs exist, with the most developed being the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. |
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| Peru is an active member of several regional blocs and one of the founders of the Andean Community of Nations. |
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| Economic regions included those formed by trade blocs, such as the North American Trade Agreement bloc and Central American Trade Agreement. |
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| Many are from the Hyderabadi and Malayali communities, two of the largest blocs of Indian expatriates in the Kingdom. |
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| In addition to the United States, Canada also has relations in Central American trade blocs. |
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| Another study concludes that as of 2006, voting blocs have, on at least two occasions, crucially affected the outcome of the contest. |
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| Political groups and parliamentary voting blocs exist, although most candidates run as independents. |
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| However, numerous political groups function as de facto political parties in elections, and there are blocs in the parliament. |
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| After World War II, the world split into two large geopolitical blocs, separating into spheres of communism and capitalism. |
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| These blocs formed the basis of the concepts of the First and Second Worlds. |
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| The circumstances of these two blocs were so different that they were essentially two worlds, however, they were not numbered first and second. |
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| They tended to vote in blocs, and politicians negotiated with group leaders for votes. |
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| Mixed economies are going to be the building blocs for a single world. |
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| The Western European and Others Group is one of several unofficial Regional Groups in the United Nations that act as voting blocs and negotiation forums. |
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| Once elected, many deputies form voting blocs in the National Assembly. |
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| When the ambassadors withdrew, the GCC was reportedly on the verge of a crisis linked to the emergence of distinct political blocs with conflicting interests. |
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| Geographers have considered the role of exotic locations in the movies in the dynamics of the Cold War, with power struggles among blocs playing out in the peripheral areas. |
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