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Example sentences for: bloc

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He abandoned segregationism when South Carolina's blacks became a powerful voting bloc, throwing his support behind the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, hiring black staffers, and recommending a black man for appointment as a federal judge.
An industrial city, Santiago was hit especially hard when Cuba lost its Soviet support and Eastern bloc trade partners during the Special Period.
The transition from communism to capitalism has not been easy, as all the former Eastern bloc states have found, but Hungary, at least, has a significant share of Western investments to help support its rather fragile economy.
The WP 's Al Kamen reports that in the sheriff's race in Storey County, Nevada, a much-prized voting bloc is working women.
A party called the Stalinist Bloc for the USSR is hoping to break through the 5 percent barrier that would give it members of the Duma.