Sentences with phrase «together as a bloc»

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.

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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.

Another factor was that DeFrancisco and the Republican leadership thought it was crucial for the Republicans to stick together, to vote as a bloc, on this issue.

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.