On the one hand, his rock solid support among black voters gives him the biggest single electoral bloc of any candidate.

It now controls the largest single bloc in the 128-seat Parliament, with seven seats of its own and influence over perhaps 50 others.

The administration itself is of course no monolith and does not act as a single bloc, pursuing its interests whatever they may be.

He won several Northern states by building the largest single bloc.

They would remain separate sovereign countries but act as a single bloc in foreign policy and security issues.

On 20 March 2001 Solidarity announced it would "be as a single bloc".

Their Democratic loyalties cut across all income and geographic lines to form the single most unified bloc of voters in the country.

If they unite in a single political bloc, a more balanced and stable power structure would result.

But whether these members can be organized into a single bloc is an open question, given the regional and ideological differences.

Eventually, however, the two parties agreed to contest the 1996 election as a single bloc.