Sentences with phrase «as a bloc»

Malloy says the GOP «should be held accountable» for voting as a bloc against a candidate who has been endorsed by various law schools and legal scholars.
Trump and his campaign did not treat his remark as a joke; instead, they insisted he was merely urging gun rights supporters to vote as a bloc against Clinton.
BERLIN (AP)-- Britain's decision to leave the European Union puts German Chancellor Angela Merkel at center stage as the bloc seeks to preserve its unity and win back skeptical voters across the continent.
While the government's front benchers sat together in the House of Commons and the two parties acted as a bloc during PMQ, [11] the Liberal Democrat and Conservative backbenchers sat apart and each had their own whips, [11] and the two parties competed in by - elections.
Then, after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the ensuing decades saw this demographic flip, with Southern whites becoming a core constituency of the Republican Party and the African American community voting as a bloc for Democrats.
We can say and do whatever we want and the Chinese and the Indians, Brazilians, and beyond are likely going to move as a bloc of developing countries, to their own rhythm, at a pace that doesn't harm their emerging industries.
One of the regions slated for casino development includes the Catskills, which has a growing Orthodox community that has voted as a bloc on major issues.
The senator said that if elected he would want to forge relationships between city and state legislators to bring back resources to the borough, encouraging legislators to vote and work together as a bloc instead of simply for their own district.
This means that ASEAN as a bloc has lower emission standards compared with advanced countries such as Germany, Korea, and Japan where clean coal technology is mandatory.
Swinburne told BI: «I think there's a greater understanding now than there was two years ago, in terms of what trading relationships with the EU as a bloc actually entail.
OECD countries as a bloc are forecast to grow a little faster in 1993 — perhaps by about 2 per cent, compared with around 1 1/2 per cent last year.
In fact, without nuclear weapons, I doubt anyone other than the rest of NATO as a bloc could seriously hope to prevent the US from doing what they wanted militarily.
The EU itself is not a direct signatory of the Paris climate treaty (it can't be, it's not a UN member state) but its member states decided to stick together and ratify the Paris treaty as a bloc.
Voting as a bloc for whoever the Rebbe designates has its advantages politically.
The plan, which some in the Legislature contend could have enlisted the support of Gov. Cuomo, a Democrat, would have had the Assembly's 44 Republicans vote as a bloc with a minimum of 32 of the Assembly's 106 Democrats to cast the 76 votes needed to elect someone other than Silver, the Manhattan Democrat now being probed by US Attorney Preet Bharara.
Valesky says he has consistently supported progressive Democratic ideals, like the Dream Act, the Women's Equality Act and campaign finance reform, noting that the Democratic Party does not always vote as a bloc anyway.
The digital component is also evolving as a bloc.
As the EU negotiates as a bloc, then unless these objections are overcome, the 30 % target will not be instituted but Johnson was hopeful that with sufficient incentives the tail - enders could be brought on board.
But that's still not enough guarantee that they will all stand together as a bloc behind their red lines preventing the lock in of a deal of inaction for the next 8 years.
That is, if interveners are shifting judges in a more conservative or more liberal direction, it appears that interveners are shifting the members of the Court as a bloc or, alternatively, not so far or so differentially as to cause judges to occupy a different ranking in policy space vis - à - vis his or her colleagues on the Court.
Envision a world where the three North American countries act as a bloc to trade freely among themselves in all things energy, are regulated in a cost - effective and coordinated system — and rival every other nation or bloc in its ability to influence world markets for oil and gas.
The 30 Republicans in the Senate have voted as a bloc against most of the year's budget measures.
The South, voting as a bloc on measures that challenged slaveholding interests and augmented by defections from Free State Senators with Southern sympathies, was able to tally majorities.
However, ASEAN as a bloc has CPPs emission standards ranging from 200 - 850 mg / m3 for SOx, 380 - 1,000 mg / m3 for NOx, and 80 - 400 mg / m3 for PM.
But the proposed measure could be a useful tool for gay marriage opponents to use on potential fence - sitters in the Senate Republican conference, which so far has voted as a bloc against expanding the state definition of marriage.
SYDNEY, March 19 - Australia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed during a weekend summit in Sydney to establish a regional infrastructure pipeline, Australia's foreign minister said, as the bloc seeks to balance rising Chinese influence.
The EU considers itself at the forefront of the fight against climate change and as a bloc it's on track to meet its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, which limits the emissions of gases that warm the planet.
EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard focused on the fact that as a bloc, the EU is delivering on its Kyoto commitment.
Under new voting rules, the eurozone will have as a bloc an automatic majority for most decisions.
This is simple math: Because of its size and willingness to vote as a bloc, the Freedom Caucus will almost certainly provide the margin to crown the next speaker.
And the at - large system in the East Ramapo Central School District denies them that opportunity because what we have there is heavily racially polarized voting in which the white community votes as a bloc, and black and Latino voters vote as a bloc and, because the white community outnumbers them they're able to win elections again and again and again,» Grossman says.
And will specific groups vote as a bloc?
Second, in November Ulrich also said that he expected to vote as a bloc, albeit a small one, with the two other Republicans in the new council.
Yet none of that could convince the mayor's appointees on the panel from voting as a bloc to approve the lucrative contract at their Aug. 17 meeting as hundreds of striking workers and their supporters, including many teachers, protested.
The progressive caucus, of which both Mr. Williams and Ms.Mark - Viverito are a part, had vowed to vote as a bloc — creating a counter-weight to the county leaders who usually rule the race.
Delegates from all 169 Connecticut cities and towns will cast their votes as blocs or individually for governor Saturday until one candidate gets 50 percent of the vote plus one.
She however assigned herself the role of promoting «Latino Power» as the bloc that would put Hillary over the top.
He indicated there was opposition, too, within the GOP conference to a proposal to raise the age of criminal responsibility, a key issue for the Independent Democratic Conference, which has pledged to vote as a bloc against a budget that does not include the policy.
The Bronx and Queens council delegations will vote as a bloc, perhaps excepting one or two, giving Joe Crowley control of 22 votes.
Next week the Labour policy forum will meet to discuss the party's future direction and the unions, holding nearly a quarter of votes, will act as a bloc to push through their changes.
Dems will not necessarily vote as a bloc (although the size of Obama's victor margin may change that...)
Schumer and Cuomo are calling on the state's congressional delegation to vote as a bloc to oppose the proposal.
Despite this, 43 countries will sign a declaration urging the UN to adopt a 1.5 °C target, and the V20 — the 20 countries most vulnerable to climate change — are expected to vote as a bloc, urging stronger global aims.
Using data obtained from Democratic and Republican presidential primaries from 2000 - 12, Deltas and Polborn ran experiments such as replacing the current primary system with a simultaneous system in which all 50 states voted at once, individually or as blocs.
And we can't really expect all employees to vote as a bloc (although the prime role of occupational self - interest certainly promotes such an outcome).
This month, the 18 teachers on the committee voted as a bloc to accept as a «working model» an 81 - point evaluation instrument developed at their request by the education dean at a state university.
The European Union executive will propose at least a 30 percent reduction target for CO2 emissions from trucks by 2030, an EU source said on Monday, as the bloc seeks to slash greenhouse gas emissions.
We, as a bloc, are much more comfortable spending low - value time in minimum - wage jobs that pay at least something, than in volunteering, which continues to carry the stigma of mundane work.
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