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bloc

/blok/US // blɒk //UK // (blɒk) //

块状物,块状,块状结构,块

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a group of persons, businesses, etc., united for a particular purpose.
    • : a group of legislators, usually of both major political parties, who vote together for some particular interest: the farm bloc.
    • : a group of nations that share common interests and usually act in concert in international affairs:the Soviet bloc.

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Examples

  • Meanwhile, nearly 30 percent of the Republicans who voted — a surprisingly large bloc — ignored McCarthy’s pleas for unity and chose to oust Cheney from her leadership post.

  • Its CEO said the firm would not divert Covid-19 vaccine doses intended for the UK to the EU, after announcing a major shortfall in deliveries to the bloc.

  • Frustrated by delays in AstraZeneca’s delivery of coronavirus jabs, the bloc said it will demand advance notification of the export of all EU-produced vaccines.

  • According to Advocate General Michal Bobek, a senior legal adviser to the CJEU, the national privacy authorities in any EU country can sometimes take action against a company, even if the firm has its main EU office elsewhere in the bloc.

  • Now is the time to build infrastructure and pump money into Democratic organizing in each of these states, to cement a progressive power bloc, and to create the context for an inclusive, democratically powered national leadership.

  • However, in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections they were the largest bloc of voters.

  • The group seems to blend “black bloc” anarchist street violence with social-media campaigns.

  • Two years later, he had released all Soviet dissidents from prison and was beginning to loosen the reins on Soviet bloc countries.

  • Now Lyovochkin complains that several of the Opposition Bloc members have suffered attacks while on the election trail.

  • But politics are volatile in Ukraine and Opposition Bloc is pushing hard.

  • Pederson headed a bloc against 'Carmack's Folly,' but he backed the wrong horse, and when the bubble burst he was out in the cold.

  • He didn't feel it—he had thrown up a nerve bloc—but it rattled his teeth together.

  • Sometimes he becomes wholly insensitive in some part of his body via a nerve bloc.

  • Can true converts be made to order by constraint, motives of self-interest, or by baptizing them en bloc?

  • The French Socialists were returned with important majorities, and the Bloc found itself stronger than ever before.