South Africa joined the bloc in late 2010 primarily for political reasons.

The All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) is a left wing nationalist political party in India.

The BASIC bloc, however, is founded on political opportunism, and thus is unlikely to hold together for long.

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At first glance, it seems reasonable that political parties might be able to translate women s gender consciousness into a unified voting bloc.

In 1936 Quwatli invited al Asali to join the National Bloc, an umbrella group that led the political struggle against the French occupation.

He clashed with the Bloc leadership that failed to prevent the annexation of Alexandretta to Turkey in 1939, and resigned from Bloc ranks.

Mr. Hariri and his parliamentarian bloc voted in its favour.

Our world is today no longer one of bloc confrontation.

Stalin therefore prevented Eastern Bloc nations from receiving Marshall Plan aid.

It is not for them to denounce treaties generally, en bloc.

It was an open style regionalism and not a trading bloc.

They hoped that establishing a monetary union would generate irresistible pressure for the creation of an EU that functioned in all respects as a cohesive economic and political bloc.

In a parliamentary system of government, a hung parliament occurs when no single political party (or bloc of allied parties) has an absolute majority of seats in the parliament (legislature).

The newly free nations of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet bloc may be inclined to align their political and diplomatic voices with the economic Powers of the European Union.

By the end of the decade, many Soviet bloc regimes had collapsed.

First, there is no such thing as a bloc of emerging countries.

The US has profited from a longstanding alliance with the Sunni bloc.

The Favorit was very popular in Czechoslovakia and other Eastern Bloc countries.

Such laws were common in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries.

He also details, according to his analysis, the positions of the different parties involved in these negotiations. Especially those of the of the March 14 bloc and the opposition bloc.

A votebank (also spelled vote bank or vote bank) is a loyal bloc of voters from a single community, who consistently back a certain candidate or political formation in democratic elections.

But most people of the former Soviet bloc don t see it that way.

When the Cold War raged, one bloc or the other propped up weak states.

Their decision to act as a bloc in Copenhagen is an important step forward.

Iraqiya, which I lead, was the largest electoral bloc to emerge from that vote.

But, in the former communist bloc, the benefits brought by transparency have been undeniable.

The CSCE was born of diplomatic pragmatism, despite the difficulties imposed by bloc antagonism.

When the East Bloc unraveled, India had to start paying for imports in hard cash.

No flexibility existed within either bloc for smaller groups of members to deploy alliance assets.

20 years ago, Bonnier, Swedish publisher, started to set newspapers in the former Soviet Bloc.

The problem is that these favorable attitudes vary considerably in intensity and constitute a soft bloc of support for the EU in the 2008 referendum, this soft bloc crumbled in the final week of the campaign.

In 1989, liberal democracy triumphed over the socialist ideology incarnated and promoted by the Soviet Bloc.

This cleared a path to the peaceful dismantling of communist dictatorship throughout the entire Soviet bloc.

Suppression of the protests image from the Facebook page of the 'youth bloc' used with permission

In any case, the state has to cast its votes en bloc , i.e., without vote splitting.

The representatives of Syrian Turkmen National Bloc participated in the meetings for the Syrian Turkmen Assembly.

The risk of East West confrontation has faded away with the disappearance of the Eastern bloc.

The phrase dichotomy of gender versus party referred in particular to situations where women in elected positions responded to the interests of their political bloc or partisan group, while not genuinely taking into account women's specific needs.

We knew, too, that its peaceful victory would be a lesson for the rest of the bloc.

In September 1989, Poland had the first government ever led by democratic parties in the Soviet bloc.

At the same time there was increased intelligence and espionage activity, Eastern Bloc defections and diplomatic expulsions.

The internal disputes and confrontations reported during 2003 between the Cacique Nutibara Bloc and the Metro Bloc ended with the disappearance of the latter group and the killing of its main leader, Comandante Rodrigo , or Doble Cero , in May 2004.

Initially, the US backed Maliki in order to keep the Sadrist bloc from gaining a share of power.

One of those who actually had their citizenship revoked is the former MP of Alwefaq Bloc Jawad Fairooz.