Example sentences for: blocs

How can you use “blocs” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Both the NYT and LAT note that he is a moderate, with the LAT stating he has something that will be much needed as Indonesia tries to dig itself out of two solid years of political upheaval and economic failure--good relations with all the major blocs of Indonesian society: the military, former presidents Suharto and Habibie, and the country's students.

  • The Majority 2000 site, which plans to launch next January, is part of a growing trend of powerful voting blocs using the Internet to flex their political muscles.

  • But while Eleanor's agenda looks separatist--women-only press conferences, an attempt to avert World War II through a Lysistrata -style "women's strike for peace"--it also succeeds in grafting onto Roosevelt's coalition new blocs of the hitherto-disenfranchised without which the New Deal would be impracticable.

  • The world would remain strife-torn, he said, only now the main actors would be not ideological blocs or nation-states or superpowers, but distinct "civilizations"--Western, Islamic, Confucian, Japanese, Slavic-Orthodox, Latin American, Hindu, and African.

  • Blocs of ethnic or religious voters are frequently against certain politicians, and maybe all those politicians get frustrated about it.


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