bloc voting in a sentence

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1. They are also owed assurances that vote-trading, bloc voting and other backroom judging deals will no longer be tolerated.
2. From 1295 to 1885, Leominster was a parliamentary borough which until 1868 elected two bloc vote system of election.
3. Competition between ethnic groups in mixed areas also spurred tribal elders to marshal a bloc vote from their women.
4. "Racial bloc voting really does restrict the ability of minorities to elect the candidates they prefer, " he said.
5. The bloc vote electoral system was used in two seat elections and first past the post for single member by-elections.
6. But while Catholic lawmakers offered Trimble their unanimous support, his own Protestant bloc voted 30-29 against his return to office.
7. This term is sometimes also used to refer to elections for multiple winners in a particular constituency using bloc voting.
8. Stapleton, chairman of the increasingly powerful athletes'portion of the board, estimated that 80 percent of his bloc voted for Baldwin.
9. Asked about the differing opinions in the church, she said in an interview, " We don't have a bloc vote.
10. Their support of Kerry is not an automatic bloc vote, they say, but a carefully thought-out referendum against Bush's policies.