Blocs in a sentence

The Village is a group of residences where students who have similar interests or academic goals apply as small groups of 4 to 24, known as BLOCs, to live together in clustered suites along with non-BLOCs.

After lining up the votes to put a member in “bad standing,” meaning to strip him of his authority and sources of revenue, these voting blocs “decide what is going to happen and when,” Castellanos wrote.

Blocs in Kuwait can register as a group and independent candidates can run independently within the MMP system, while with the STV system is more straightforward.

Democrats and Republicans are growing increasingly anxious that third-party bids could take away crucial voting blocs to get their candidate four more years in the White House.

From this perspective, there is still a belief that Russia could somehow be pulled away from the Chinese sphere of influence, in a hypothetical division of the world into two geopolitical blocs: democracies and authoritarian dictatorships.

In any peace proposal, Israel always wants to keep four settlement blocs on the West Bank.

Instead of setting the global geopolitical agenda, Asia is stuck following a US intent on dividing the world into rival blocs.

It is precisely the collective security approach offered by China’s Global Security Initiative that currently holds out the most hope for world peace through its rejection of the “Cold War mentality” and military blocs.

It is these blocs where the global order is now shaped.

The new treaty allows for the exchange of information, the creation of joint investigation teams, and agreements with other international police blocs, such as Interpol, in the fight against transnational organized crime.

Voting blocs, like young Americans, that are considering voting for independents like Kennedy must make a serious decision in 2024 to support their nearly-certain-to-fail candidate or to back a major-party candidate who is more likely to win.

Will the logic of emergent strategic competition eventually impact ties between Iran and India as nascent members of two rival emergent blocs (in a contest where India neither wishes nor is able to be non-aligned)?

But is such an order possible, or will unmitigated great power rivalry produce a world increasingly divided into Cold War-style blocs, with a swathe of middle powers and less developed nations hedging in between?

Former President Donald Trump has led Harris in multiple states as the vice president with key voting blocs.

It could cause the fragmentation of existing economic blocs.

Meanwhile, as Russia continues to increase its influence in eastern Europe through interference in elections, and China increases its hegemony in the Far East, the Eurasia and Eastasia blocs are forming.

Mr. Biden has fiercely criticized the court decision and used it to galvanize key voting blocs as he seeks re-election.

Ódor stressed that Hungary, whose economy is deeply integrated with the German automobile industry and Chinese battery manufacturers, “exemplifies successful cooperation” between the two blocs.

Other members of the party agree, urging the party to focus on winning back the blocs of voters that made up their winning coalition in past election cycles.

Some are also consolidating the far-right presence in by attempting to create political blocs among themselves.