Sentences with phrase «as a bloc behind»

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Among the pundits, the New York Times» Paul Krugman has come out behind Clinton, while Noah backs Obama, on the grounds that if all the plans are, as Noah maintains, gradually introducing socialized medicine, there's no point in antagonizing a large bloc of voters with a mandate.

The assumption behind the Ostpolitik was that the Eastern bloc would always be there and so had to be accepted as apermanent fact of life: the future Pope John Paul II already knew that it must not be accepted as a fact of life, and that it was itself vulnerable, especially to the Catholic Church.

By Monday, Ms. Mark - Viverito already had the lions share of the 22 - member Progressives bloc behind her, as well as a small handful of other break - off members — but her team needed more names to declare a decisive win.