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1. Not just in Russia where diplomatic relations were known to be a foreign – in every sense of the word – concept to the new president elect, but throughout the United Bloc of nations: a committee, including the non-aligned (neutral) countries such as Japan, Korea (north & south), and India, which had at the heart of its ethos the slogan finding the middle way
2. Thus: A huge pro Obama voting bloc is the nearly one half of all adults who not only do not pay any taxes, but receive money from the government
3. President Bush‘s flawed Immigration Reform Bill providing ―conditional‖ amnesty to 12 million illegal aliens must be reassuring to 1) (Moderate) Republicans who would consider its passage a political opportunity to place the party in better stead with Hispanic Voters and the Business Community, 2) Corporations seeking to attract Cheap(er) Labor, 3) Democrats who, for the same reasons indicated above, are uncomfortable with the idea of controlling our nation‘s borders at the risk of alienating a sizeable voting bloc and (who) would otherwise seize the moment, for purely political reasons, to challenge Republican proposals that (surprise!) ―don‘t go far enough,‖ 4) Multiculturalists and Internationalists likely to embrace such ―reforms‖ as a (positive) first step towards achieving their (respective) Universalist Agenda, and 5) Shakers of Western Culture who would seek its destruction at any cost for its own sake and who would therefore (also) consider such measures as an appropriate step in the ―right‖ direction
4. Reagan Democrats, a vital voting bloc that spear-headed his unexpected victory over presidential incumbent James Earl Carter, should not be casually dismissed as an electoral anomaly lest we forget Richard M
5. Jean Chretien supported the powerful third world bloc of the UN
6. For some Third World countries with dictatorial governments, state-run economies and close ties to the Soviet bloc, it becomes a fine judgement whether to count them as ‘Communist’ or ‘Third World socialist’):
7. the Environmental Bloc which donates much funds to members of
8. to negotiate leverage with the communist bloc
9. high alert because the president thinks the Eastern Bloc might try to move in and help them
10. But en bloc refers to larger periods of memory loss
11. People who experience fragmentary blackouts can typically recall forgotten events once they are reminded of them, but not so with en bloc blackouts where a region in the brain integral to memory formation is damaged
12. Sufferers with en bloc lose days; they don’t know what they did or what happened while they were under the influence even when people remind them or tell them what occurred
13. ‘’Start the car and do slowly a complete tour of the bloc, Misha: we have a young woman to pick up at the next corner, after our tour
14. Doing a complete tour of the bloc as ordered, the driver then stopped at the designated street corner, where the woman was now waiting
15. millions of American voters who could coalesce into a bloc, and bring your political career to an
16. from a minority bloc – with the help of all Liberal elements, including ‘far Left’ loonies, and a
17. This political concept was to promote a self-sufficient bloc of Asian nations led by Japan, free of Western colonialism and influence
18. At around the same time, the ZX Spectrum was released in the UK and quickly became the most popular home computer in most of Western Europe, and later the Soviet bloc due to the ease with which clones could be produced
19. Exerting his control of the Communist Bloc countries, Stalin severed ties with the west
20. Communist Bloc countries in order to maintain communist rule
21. The Eastern bloc of the Roman
22. other is the Shia bloc led by Iran
23. Sunni power bloc and Iran is the head of the Shiite bloc
24. shift of power to the Shiite bloc and if Saudi Arabia truly is the Harlot of
25. Added to this, the only time Mark had ventured there on his only previous trip to the then Eastern Bloc, he'd had everything stolen, including his bike and been arrested - neither experience of which we fancied repeating
26. * In May 1939, Subash Chandra Bose formed a new group which came to be called the Forward Bloc
27. For an instant, he thought Ned followed him into the bloc
28. ” Locke strolled to the cell bloc door
29. Not a sound came from the cell bloc, as if every prisoner held his breath
30. bloc better do what the Soviet Union said, or they would invade the country
31. bloc nations under the subjective rule of the Soviet Union, we can find no
32. whatsoever in what the old Soviet Union did to the communist bloc countries
33. From his Hollywood exploits, to his trips to Eastern Bloc communist countries as an ambassador of the World Veterans Federation, where he would bring used prosthetic and orthotic devices, he would keep his eyes and ears open for anything and everything
34. There were children from all over the eastern bloc on the programme
35. An area, as large perhaps as Sussex, has been lifted up en bloc with all its living contents, and cut off by perpendicular precipices of a hardness which defies erosion from all the rest of the continent
36. For those fortunate or important enough to get a bloc of the stock at the opening price, holding for a few hours and then selling the shares has been an extremely rewarding tactic
37. In fact, most of them tended to sympathise with the communist bloc on a my-former-colonial-ruler’s-enemy-is-my-friend basis, but the fact remained that the world now seemed to be divided into three camps: Capitalist, communist, and non-aligned
38. Brutal dictatorships operated at various times in Indonesia, in North Korea (and, you could argue, in South Korea too), in Iraq and Syria, in Iran, in Afghanistan, as well as in the Soviet bloc in eastern and central Europe
39. So in the 1970s Castro tied Cuba into the increasingly stagnant Soviet economic bloc
40. He was the undisputed leader of the communist bloc and he loved it
41. Mao Tse-tung – new kid on the bloc
42. In 1989, as the Soviet bloc began dismantling and the Berlin Wall came down (see the next section ‘Meanwhile, Back in the USSR
43. The reason? Because Gorbachev’s policy of reform led to the collapse of the communist bloc and of the Soviet Union itself
44. Tracing the rise and fall of the communist bloc
45. The rest of the Soviet bloc didn’t get any choice in the matter: It had to go along with it
46. All governments use spin and propaganda and all politicians can be caught out avoiding the truth, but life in the Soviet bloc was based on a regime of systematic lying
47. Government news programmes would announce endless lists of statistics which were supposed to prove that production was breaking all records and that life in the communist bloc was better than anywhere else
48. One eastern bloc leader stood by the Czechs in 1968
49. Hungary: Had been more liberal than the rest of the bloc since 1956 anyway
50. In 2004 ten countries, eight of them from the former Soviet bloc, joined the European Union, which meant their citizens could travel within the EU looking for work