Word: blocs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...voting bloc - as in many of the key House and Senate races that will determine who controls Congress - may well be white women, the soccer/security moms who often decide later than other groups on how they will vote. The Free Press poll found 83% of blacks opposed the measure to ban affirmative action, while 53% of white men supported it. But white women were about equally divided on the issue, with 20% undecided. Affirmative action proponents are pitching their arguments squarely at them, warning of the loss of funding for programs that promote women in traditionally male-dominated fields like...
...facing investigation by Israel's State Prosecutor into allegations of wrongdoing in the course of the state's sale of its controlling interest in a major bank in 2005), Olmert needs help. Lieberman brings with him 11 seats in the Knesset, along with the party's constituency, a large bloc of the roughly 1 million immigrants from former Soviet republics now living in Israel. (Lieberman himself was born in Moldova.) That raises the Olmert coalition's majority to 78 out of the Knesset's 120 seats, compensating, perhaps, for a steep postwar decline in his public support, and girding...
...album opens with a relentless, heavily distorted bass line in “Jique,” which carries the song to an eerie, heavenly bridge before descending once again into the dance-inspiring mire of bass. “Never Met a German,” a Bloc Party-esque rock track, has Sciubba fantasizing about being a general, telling the listener, “I almost have an orgasm when the tanks are rolling/ Crashing through the borders...
...Says Bennett: "Malaki's under a lot of pressure to rein in the militias and clean up the Ministry of Interior. He's got pressure from the Americans and the Sunni bloc in Parliament. Disbanding a corrupt unit of the police force looks good and proactive and decisive. He's making the right noises. The question is, how far can he really go? His main political support comes from the Sadr movement, which is connected to the militia that is doing a lot of the sectarian killing and infiltrating the police. He can only crack down on this...
...that mark the expansion of the European Union. The frontiers that seem most important at one time shrink into insignificance at another. The demarcation between Western and Eastern Europe took on paramount importance during the cold war, but especially since 2004, when 10 nations, mostly of the old East bloc, joined the E.U., that line seems increasingly less relevant. The end of colonialism, too, has changed what Europe means. On the one hand, European nations have seen an influx of those from lands that Europe had colonized - bringing with them traditions and religions to which many Europeans were not accustomed...