noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
en bloc
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You cannot dismiss these stories en bloc.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
communist
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Geography, with special attention to the disposition of the Communist bloc and the free World.
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Why do you think everything throughout the old Communist bloc looked so bad?
eastern
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I had already begun an outline for another book and for that I needed some local colour in an Eastern bloc country.
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Information about the success or otherwise of control measures in the Eastern bloc is scarce.
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The country's main benefactors are the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc - which can supply guns but not bread.
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Throughout the alliance the will was lacking to create conventional forces on the scale needed to balance those of the Eastern bloc .
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The Eastern bloc desperately needed Western goods but had no hard currency to pay for them, even if they were available legitimately.
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Other former Eastern bloc countries also face growing concern over their ageing nuclear power stations.
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The rise of ethnic violence throughout the Eastern bloc is unfortunately the other side of the coin to self-determination.
large
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With 464 delegates out of the total of 1,276, they are by far the largest bloc .
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Independents, who number 46, 708, form the largest bloc of registered voters.
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Communists and their allies control the largest bloc of seats in the 450-member Duma.
military
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The texts still contained an important difference on the issue of maximum overall foreign troop deployments allowed to the two military blocs .
regional
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Formation of regional party bloc Five regional autonomy parties moved towards forming a political bloc under the leadership of the Lombardy League.
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Countries splinter, regional trading blocs grow, the global economy becomes ever more interconnected.
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Regional trade blocs Rather than act independently, many developing countries have tried to increase their competitiveness by forming regional trade blocs.
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A new system of trading rules has to be developed to govern the behavior of regional blocs .
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As a result regional trading blocs are emerging as natural stepping-stones in an evolutionary process toward a truly global economy.
soviet
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In time the Soviet bloc might begin to break up as nationalism reasserted itself among the satellite states.
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The Soviet bloc collapses; same story.
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Or perhaps she is a kind of Soviet bloc Norma Desmond.
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The demise of the Soviet bloc deprived revolutionaries of powerful sponsors.
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The president himself ordered studies of the feasibility of tougher policies than had been been pursued under Truman against the Soviet bloc .
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Nearly all of it was imported, at preferential prices, from Soviet bloc countries.
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No Soviet bloc representatives sat on the Commission.
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Pacepa was not the first defector from the world of Soviet bloc secret services to make such a claim.
trading
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These harmful effects can also be exacerbated by the adoption of increased protectionist measures by trading blocs against non-bloc countries.
■ NOUN
country
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I had already begun an outline for another book and for that I needed some local colour in an Eastern bloc country .
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Nearly all of it was imported, at preferential prices, from Soviet bloc countries .
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Other former Eastern bloc countries also face growing concern over their ageing nuclear power stations.
power
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The sheer destructiveness of the H-bomb could force the rival power blocs to negotiate and seek ways to avoid general war.
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Yet racial, national, and religious power blocs have always been integral to how power is wielded in this nation.
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The honour was historically linked with the honour of Pontefract and together they formed a single trans-Pennine power bloc .
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He agreed with Wedgie about the dissolution of the power blocs .
trade
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Regional trade blocs Rather than act independently, many developing countries have tried to increase their competitiveness by forming regional trade blocs.
■ VERB
form
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Formation of regional party bloc Five regional autonomy parties moved towards forming a political bloc under the leadership of the Lombardy League.
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Independents, who number 46, 708, form the largest bloc of registered voters.
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Regional trade blocs Rather than act independently, many developing countries have tried to increase their competitiveness by forming regional trade blocs.
vote
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With Carpenter, Kelly and Davies acting as a voting bloc , the board adopted a conservative legislative agenda.
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They lose the massive voting bloc which otherwise might double and, in certain urban areas, quadruple their constituencies.
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The middle-class elderly are a powerful voting bloc , quick to mobilize against any attack on their benefit programs.
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Representing a distinct, highly opinionated voting bloc , his was a political voice that could not be ignored.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And most of the money coming in was offset by spending on imports into the bloc .
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And of course we have to maintain friendships with all blocs.
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But in class terms it marked a split within the ruling bloc , not the totalizing rupture from without that repealers claimed.
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Formation of regional party bloc Five regional autonomy parties moved towards forming a political bloc under the leadership of the Lombardy League.
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Regional trade blocs Rather than act independently, many developing countries have tried to increase their competitiveness by forming regional trade blocs.
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The government sold a controlling 35 percent bloc of shares to a group led by Telefonica de Espana in March 1994.
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Yet racial, national, and religious power blocs have always been integral to how power is wielded in this nation.
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Yet that is precisely the aim of the substantial anti-environment bloc Republicans have assembled in Congress.