Just compare the sizes of the black blocs at the G240 Summit and the Paris May Day riots — thousands of people — to the blocs at Berkeley, Charlottesville, and even the inauguration — hundreds.
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"You must differentiate the two blocs of sanctions," Weafer noted.
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The EAC is the most successful of Africa's regional blocs.
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The blocs have mostly plundered the ministries under their control.
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Both candidates face major resistance from key voting blocs. Mrs.
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Most countries in Latin America fall into two diverging blocs.
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The group called for competitive elections for all geographic blocs.
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Quality and quantity have moved in blips, blocs and waves.
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Opinion Columnist There are two power blocs driving politics today.
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Regional blocs have often been biased, shielding their members from criticism.
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Kurds, Sunni Arabs and Shias no longer vote as united blocs.
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The other winning blocs would have to agree on the nomination.
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That's part of the reason for developing and implementing trade blocs.
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What are the biggest blocs that vote in a Democratic primary?
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But he is also making progress with other important voting blocs.
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The two blocs argued mainly over Hezbollah's big arsenal of weapons.
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Buttigieg remains a wholly unproven commodity among those influential voting blocs.
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The parliamentary blocs will simply regroup once the elections are over.
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Together, their voting blocs easily beat corporate standard-bearer Joe Biden.
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The move could unravel one of the world's biggest trading blocs.
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Clinton's success is built on holding together those blocs of voters.
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In Malaysia's now-U-shaped Dewan Rakyat, MPs sit in party blocs.
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Once, he argues, European politics was made up of "solid" power blocs.
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The two political blocs are also at odds over defense spending levels.
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U. states Norway and Iceland to fly anywhere between the two blocs.
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These partners could include new humanitarian aid blocs, including pan-Islamic humanitarianism.
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Young people had made up one of the strongest blocs against leaving.
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As trading relationships unravel, countries may organise themselves into rival economic blocs.
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Hence, Clinton comfortably wins in states with large blocs of black voters.
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Key blocs of voters — millennials and independents — have voted for him overwhelmingly.
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These two power blocs are driving the debate and setting the agenda.
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Even citizens of the same regional political and economic blocs find travel challenging.
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The Pacific Alliance is one of two large trade blocs in Latin America.
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Instead it endorses an undivided Jerusalem and keeping all the major settlement blocs.
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And that is for the really big political blocs to act in concert.
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The party was built for an age of monolithic, class-based political blocs.
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Currently, the companies are partners in 16 exploration blocs in Brazil, Petrobras said.
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"We have two blocs that don't want to work with us," he said.
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Currently, regional blocs of countries often rally around one nation to represent them.
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But even within these new regional blocs, supposed allies disagree on vital issues.
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Policy design can be used as a powerful signal to key voting blocs.
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One reason is that these blocs are spread out across the West Bank.
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All the three main political blocs have been implicated in one scandal or another.
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A ban by a few American allies risks splitting the world into two blocs.
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Trump faces two competing blocs of intraparty opposition, whose goals are in direct conflict.
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So a successful candidate needs to connect with lots of different blocs of voters.
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Seven of the blocs are for exploration and extraction, while five are for exploration.
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Tullow, which operates the blocs, and Worley Parsons, were not immediately available for comment.
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In the run-up to the ballot, opposition groups have coalesced into three blocs.
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Mr. Trump is hampered by a high level of contempt among important voting blocs.
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It hasn't helped that in this century politics split the region into rival blocs.
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In a world of big blocs, integration has many potential benefits for Latin America.
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In the past, some have linked up with the settlement blocs Israel does authorize.
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The protesters were from far-left anarchist groups known as Black Blocs, police said.
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However, it appears the president is slipping among some key voting blocs, including women.
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Instead, the court will consist of two distinct blocs — five conservatives and four liberals.
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Some of their protests have been marked by rioting, partly blamed on black blocs.
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Salih called on the rival political blocs to resume talks and agree a nominee.
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Today, the number of settlers living outside the blocs has grown to over 103,000.
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Some of their protests have been marked by rioting, partly blamed on black blocs.
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Another would annex the Gush Etzion and Ariel settlement blocs plus the Jordan Valley.
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As a result, political blocs began heated talks about the formation of the next government.
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In hemicycles it is natural to think of politics in terms of wings and blocs.
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The blocs are estimated by the government to contain some 854 million barrels of oil.
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The two blocs are also at odds over digital services taxes, aircraft subsidies, and Huawei.
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The core countries are becoming more isolated; collusion among voting blocs is on the rise.
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At this stage, it's not clear what the new European parliament voting blocs will be.
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Both political blocs also agreed to develop a comprehensive strategy for dealing with blockchain technology.
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Chile's centre-left government is especially keen to promote co-ordination between the two blocs.
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Political blocs that control a majority in parliament were unhappy with Abadi's initial line-up.
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Start with a couple key voting blocs increasingly vital to the Party of Ryan's prospects.
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One of their most reliable voting blocs — college-educated white women — now overwhelmingly favor Democrats.
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In recent years Lebanon's rival blocs have essentially agreed to confine their fight to Syria.
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The two blocs could form a "grand coalition," but so far, they are not talking.
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And the case of Ariel serves to illustrate the contentiousness of unilaterally defining the blocs.
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The two main political blocs almost tied with a margin of 0.3 percent separating them.
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So Mighlaj is building a small hut with cement blocs along the wall for shelter.
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The ACLU contends that the measure disenfranchises minority and poor voters — blocs that lean Democratic.
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In Greece as a whole, the past is often presented in discrete, hermetically sealed blocs.
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The Shia factions that comprise the largest blocs in parliament co-ordinate closely with Iran.
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Senior voters are considered one of the most reliable and important voting blocs for Democrats.
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"Until now there has been very little cooperation between these two blocs," Mr. Larsson said.
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The SPD and conservative blocs, which both bled support to the far right in the Sept.
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One concerns which of the two rival left and right multi-party blocs gets more votes.
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They're avatars for the coalition of interest groups, voting blocs, and ideologies that got them there.
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In exchange for their endorsements, candidates could earn cash, technology, or direct influence over voting blocs.
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The Sweden Democrats have 62 seats, giving them the balance of power between the two blocs.
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Some of the southern-most blocs being auctioned overlap with maritime territory also claimed by Israel.
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The deal would loosen the regulatory barriers to trade between the world's two largest trading blocs.
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The two blocs are also at odds on the repatriation of Syrian refugees accused of crimes.
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The new parliament, like the old one, will comprise three big blocs, none with a majority.
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Successful bidders will have the opportunity to explore and then develop and produce blocs with ADNOC.
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These groups of voters are critical voting blocs for the GOP ahead of the November elections.
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Companies bidding would have to compensate Petrobras for investments that Petrobras already made in the blocs.
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Both the mainstream political blocs suffered their worst post-war election results in the September election.
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The blocs, Kenya's only source of oil so far, are estimated to contain 750 million barrels.
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Both blocs would be short of the 22.58 seats needed to secure an outright parliamentary majority.
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Different candidates use it to target different voter blocs, leading to sometimes divergent, even contradictory ideas.
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He predicted the emergence of separate, competing economic and political blocs—the polarization that Westad fears.
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No wonder candidates like Mr. Ossoff struggled to connect with key blocs of the Democratic coalition.
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And for all you Mac users out there, Blocs 3 Website Builder is a fantastic option.
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Unlike other website builders, Blocs 3 lets you work offline and build unlimited websites from scratch.
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Defining settlement blocs, and defining permissible construction within them, is open to endless debate, he said.
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But this stalemate between the country's two dominant "values" blocs may turn out to be benign.
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And Chinese retaliation has hit hard at voting blocs Trump depends on, especially in farm states.
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Even before a single vote was cast, electoral rules blunted the power of certain political blocs.
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As you probably know, Season 32 was filmed before Cambodia, so there's no talk of voting blocs.
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Yet regional tensions have had less impact on the competition than another political phenomenon: collusive voting blocs.
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The main opposition blocs refuse to field candidates, saying they do not wish to legitimise the process.
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Countries and regional trade blocs apply substantial tariff protections on sugar imports to protect their own producers.
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It could be reduced somewhat with a free-trade area or if African regional blocs clubbed together.
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In the original Cold War, two ideological foes created rival geopolitical blocs that were effectively non-interoperable.
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Israel says it intends to keep large settlement blocs in any future peace agreement with the Palestinians.
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Migration, climate change, technological standards, and spillovers from economic policy require coordination between countries and economic blocs.
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He maintains hefty leads among his most loyal voter blocs, notably older whites without a college degree.
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The AfCFTA will further integrate transport and infrastructure networks, not only within but between sub-regional blocs.
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The businessman's numbers with Hispanics, white women and young voters — three crucial swing blocs — border on disastrous.
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That agreement, which took seven years to negotiate, removed almost all tariffs between the two trading blocs.
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"It was our ambition to unite the efforts of all politicians, political blocs and lawmakers," he said.
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This trade agreement will be freer and fairer than the recent trading relationship between the two blocs.
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Whereas Democrats have grown in urban areas, appealing to more diverse blocs of voters and educated whites.
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To some extent, it's because such lopsided election results just don't appear among loyally Republican voting blocs.
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Over the past several decades, the political parties have sorted into more unified liberal and conservative blocs.
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"Once you start down this annexation road, it's not going to stop at the blocs," he insisted.
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D.N.C. staffers instead contend that the party's broader messages will filter into military and veteran voting blocs.
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He specifically noted historic turnout among Latino and African-American voters, voting blocs that typically go blue.
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The most serious of those is proliferation of West Bank settlements beyond those in historically recognized blocs.
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Conservative blocs in both chambers are deeply opposed, but don't have the numbers to sink the bill.
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Read more " _____ • Perry Bacon Jr. at FiveThirtyEight: "If you're looking for defections from Trump, watch these blocs.
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Authorities blamed attackers from an anarchist group called the Black Blocs for disrupting a peaceful workers march.
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"If the blocs attempt to impose their candidates on me, then I will tell you," he said.
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Vying political blocs in the country had earlier expressed support for Mr. Mahathir's continuing as prime minister.
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As left-leaning blocs weighed possible alliances, far-right Jose Antonio Kast threw his weight behind Pinera.
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Even before any talks get under way, the two blocs have started to spar over policy priorities.
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There is nothing new about U.S. biofuel policy being set by bipartisan blocs of senators and representatives.
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When the W.H.O. was founded in 1948, three power blocs struggled over the direction it would take.
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Each country in the two trade blocs must approve the terms of the treaty before full implementation.
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Leaders of the center-right, center-left and liberal blocs represent nearly two thirds of Parliament's 751 seats.
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Abdul-Mahdi said it was up to the political blocs to propose new names to fill the posts.
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The selection process is less about the candidate's talents than about governments and regional blocs vying for influence.
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This makes them especially vulnerable if Trump's protectionist moves spark retaliation by the world's other big trading blocs.
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The vote also indicated increasing support for candidates not aligned to the traditional Catholic or Protestant voting blocs.
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Following the session, the two largest electoral blocs, the Conquest Coalition and Sairoun, called on Abadi to resign.
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The result—a world increasingly divided into rival economic blocs—might well have emerged even without Mr Trump.
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The formation of Iraq's government has stalled as well amid intensifying discord between the Islah and Bina blocs.
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That fact has an outsize impact among ethnic, racial and socio-economic blocs with low rates of turnout.
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I am going to extend (Israeli) sovereignty and I don't distinguish between settlement blocs and the isolated settlements.
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Negotiators from both political blocs agreed that more time was needed to reach a deal, the sources said.
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And black women, one of her most reliable voting blocs, stuck with her: 79 percent voted for Clinton.
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Bernie Sanders have been competing for the African-American vote, one of the Democratic Party's largest voting blocs.
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Exit polls revealed voting blocs split across age, gender, race, education and income, just to name a few.
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In a parliament where left-wing and right-wing blocs are closely matched, that may tilt the balance.
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All major parliamentary blocs supported him, except for Hezbollah, the Shiite Muslim group supported by Iran, which abstained.
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There are other pollution control laws, but enforcement has been lax for fear of alienating important voting blocs.
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In many rural areas, Indigenous Canadians are key voting blocs, and they tend to avoid the political right.
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The difference between success and failure often comes down to who best builds a coalition of voting blocs.
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Ryan and Trump have been struggling to satisfy enough members of both blocs to get the bill passed.
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As soon as the final results are announced, the blocs will begin scrambling to announce their coalition partners.
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He designated Mr. Abdul Mahdi, the consensus candidate of the major blocs in Parliament, to form a government.
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But some could organize themselves into blocs — perhaps by state, by issue, or by ideology — and make demands.
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Some in black blocs say they have heard of people placing weights in belts to alter their gaits.
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Center-right and center-left blocs finished with the most votes, but neither has a majority in Parliament.
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The St. Pete Polls survey also shows Biden with wide leads over his opponents among key voting blocs.
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She controlled no committees, commanded no voting blocs, owned no budgets, was the key vote on no legislation.
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The U.N. General Assembly elected a total 14 Human Rights Council members on Thursday from five regional blocs.
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Abdul-Mahdi was appointed prime minister just over a year ago as a consensus candidate between political blocs.
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In the second, blocs of opposition voters are parcelled out among several districts, to achieve the same goal.
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But the site remained ground zero of the Cold War division that split the world into opposing blocs.
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When a government treats energy sources and fuels individually, organized groups like the rural blocs can capture policymaking.
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Bolsonaro's tiny coalition has almost no campaign time on government-regulated candidate commercial blocs on television and radio.
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But imagine a world where, in addition, you have ideological blocs that are saying, We're the constituency for single-payer, we're the constituency for not instigating disastrous wars in the Middle East -- creating entire blocs of voters that hold firm to those principles -- and threaten any politician who disregards them.
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Elected in October, Bolsonaro has pledged to diminish Brazil's engagement with regional blocs like Mercosur and pursue bilateral relations.
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Beyond the major settlement blocs, Israel should stop settlement activities and remove outposts that are illegal under Israeli law.
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The deal has opened the way for North Macedonia to seek membership of the European Union and NATO blocs.
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The EU and Mercosur agreed a free trade treaty on Friday, concluding two decades of talks between the blocs.
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On Thursday, members from both blocs of Iraq's parliament said they would demand that US troops leave the country.
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But some of the features they built into it inadvertently encouraged politicians to concentrate themselves into just two blocs.
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Mr Abdul-Mahdi was backed by the two largest blocs in parliament, averting a potential dispute between Shia politicians.
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The district is comprised of more moderate voters, suburban mothers and Hispanics -- all voting blocs Trump has struggled with.
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Beginning in 2015, both the Sad Puppies and the Rabid Puppies mounted regressive "traditional" voting blocs among Hugo members.
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But with competing political blocs each claiming to hold a parliamentary majority, no vote was held on the appointments.
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As recent polls have shown, key blocs of the crucial Obama coalition continue to show hesitancy about her candidacy.
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President Barham Salih said on Thursday that Abdul Mahdi would resign if parliament's main blocs agreed on a replacement.
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Inside the stadium, there were several big blocs of Puerto Rican fans waving flags and chanting Puig's first name.
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But significant blocs of his strongest supporters do break with the President or his positions from time to time.
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They make up about one-fifth to one-fourth of the base, and they tend to vote in blocs.
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As far as identity voting blocs go, this is the one where Trump has the most work to do.
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Matthew Continetti recently identified the key blocs on the new right in an essay in The Washington Free Beacon.
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"Slowbalization" is expected to lead to stronger ties to regional blocs as supply chains seek sources closer to home.
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His presence could energize some crucial voting blocs, like young people, who formed much of his coalition in Texas.
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Both major political blocs are refusing to cooperate with it in forming a new government, and Parliament is hung.
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As one after another devalued, angry trading partners put up tariffs, and the world retreated into rival currency blocs.
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However, with both blocs struggling to stem a fall in support, it is by no means a done deal.
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But, more than just being a group of voters, black voters have often voted in blocs in presidential primaries.
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"And if linked to real suspension of growth outside the blocs, it may even advance Israeli ties with Sunnis."
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On the matter of duties, it said high import taxes on smartphones could lead to retaliation from trading blocs.
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On more technical cases, with lower stakes, these blocs are less important, and the justices frequently issue unanimous decisions.
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"If this passes, it will be a vote against large blocs from the political, business and civil establishment," he said.
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First off, this is patently false, and Avenatti manages to offend two huge blocs of Democratic voters: Women and minorities.
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But partly because of tariffs, partly because fleeting consumer tastes require shorter supply chains, commerce is splintering into regional blocs.
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It estimates the five blocs it owns around Karish and Tanin contain an additional 5 trillion cubic feet of gas.
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In today's frenetic and fast-paced game of (clears throat) voting blocs, maybe old-school solidarity is a revolutionary idea.
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It was not immediately clear if Saturday's announcement meant the top three blocs had now entered into one larger alliance.
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Those are crucial voting blocs for Democrats and could decide the election if they actually show up on Nov. 6.
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Some protesters had hoped Sistani would reject Allawi who was named last week ending weeks of deadlock between political blocs.
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It was not clear whether the problems would affect some parts of the country or political blocs more than others.
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Instead, once the results are announced, several electoral blocs will scramble to build a coalition large enough to take power.
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Casino employees make up about 15 percent of the Nevada electorate, one of the largest voting blocs in the state.
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The dominant blocs in the 328-member parliament back Abadi's modified line-up, which includes some of their own candidates.
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Italy has just introduced a new electoral system that is expected to handicap 5-Star, favoring instead mainstream political blocs.
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Nevertheless, leaders of all the major blocs vying to form a ruling coalition criticized one another's roles in the crisis.
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Justices break down into liberal and conservative blocs, with Democratic appointees on the left and Republican appointees on the right.
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The political blocs are due to meet separately on Tuesday before formal coalition negotiations, which could start later this week.
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Despite the presence of the slates and their small voting blocs, quality works and authors earned the genre's top prizes.
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Following Trump's nationalist agenda, he has pledged to diminish Brazil's engagement with regional blocs like Mercosur and pursue bilateral relations.
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OBOR is already beginning to challenge the notion of Europe and Asia existing side by side as different trading blocs.
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Iraqi state TV on Tuesday said the Kurdish blocs want to keep the current minister, Hoshiyar Zebari, in his post.
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These new standards don't just matter for North American trade — our trade agreements become reference points for other trading blocs.
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But Mr. Trump's remarks have offended wide blocs of voters to whom the party must appeal amid national demographic shifts.
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Memberships of Moscow-led economic and military blocs have been suspended or terminated, and trade with China is tightly regulated.
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Biden, speaking in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, paid deference to the voting blocs who pulled him over the line.
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Center-right and center-left blocs were neck and neck after elections, although neither can command a majority in Parliament.
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With the two blocs so close to each other, negotiations over forming a government are expected to be drawn out.
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They own TV stations, control blocs in Parliament and dabble in business; their agents patrol the streets and the internet.
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The ANH has previously said investment in the first development phase for the two blocs will hover around $100 million.
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Just as political machines are a thing of the past, so is dealing for large blocs of obedient delegates anachronistic.
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At the same time, liberals should not write off entire heterogeneous demographic blocs like "the white working class" as unpersuadable.
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In Canada, because all parties compete for all ethnic blocs, minorities do not tend to polarize into just one party.
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Axel Schaefer, deputy head of the SPD's parliamentary group, urged the three political blocs to try again to reach agreement.
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Demographic shifts led to the end of blocs of southern Democrats and northeastern Republicans, which rendered the parties more uniform.
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Cruz is assiduously following this road map by presenting himself as the champion of the two "very conservative" voting blocs.
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But the two blocs have never governed in tandem, and so far all other parties have shunned the Sweden Democrats.
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Hadi al-Amari and Qais Khazali head one of the largest Shia blocs, called Fatah, as well as powerful militias.
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Even worse, Warren has cut into his support among young people and liberals, two key voting blocs in his coalition.
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We might be heading for the metallic equivalent of the Cold War with the world divided into competing producer blocs.
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Understanding how these powerful rural blocs shape biofuel policy in the United States and Brazil is important for two reasons.
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However, a breakdown provided by the prime minister's office showed large portions of the planned homes would be outside existing blocs.
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The three main blocs are Ariel in the north, Ma'ale Adumim near Jerusalem, and Gush Etzion in the southern West Bank.
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Further analysis shows that both parties became more internally cohesive; they voted more as unified party blocs under the direct primary.
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The firm has a stake in 26 offshore oil blocs in the nation, up from two just over a year ago.
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That would leave Germany facing the possibility of a snap election, a minority government or an unwieldy alliance of three blocs.
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Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced the development of 2,500 new housing units, with most located within settlement blocs.
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The proximate cause is a dispute over cabinet posts, which are divvied up between political blocs based on sect and ethnicity.
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Al-Sadr will still need to reach out to other blocs, including Sunni and Kurdish coalitions, to form a governing alliance.
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Whoever wins will still need to reach out to other blocs, including Sunni and Kurdish coalitions, to form a governing alliance.
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Second, it helps Mr. Putin in his preferred method of dealing with strong countries one on one rather than as blocs.
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The center-right European People's Party (EPP) and the center-left Social Democrats will remain the two leading blocs in Brussels.
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That's larger than other regional trading blocs such as the European Union and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA.
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The EU-US Open Skies treaty similarly allows airlines based in those blocs to fly between any American and European airport.
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They were both viewed by key voting blocs as symbolizing a challenge to the political establishment — even inside their own party.
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The results were also a reminder of her weakness among two key voting blocs: working-class white men and independent voters.
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Companies bidding would also have to compensate state-run oil company Petrobras for investments that Petrobras already made in the blocs.
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Within Chinatown are 200 distinct family and district associations, which are much more than social clubs — they are strong voting blocs.
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Electoral rules blunted the power of some blocs, and the threat of jail time hung over leaders of anti-junta parties.
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But including the broader blocs supporting each party, two polls showed the Likud bloc ahead and the third was a draw.
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And the progressive blocs that Ms. Nixon's campaign has declared will drive her to victory are not united in their support.
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Trump is going after the core voting blocs that make up the Democratic coalition — middle-class Americans, African-Americans and Hispanics.
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But in years of failed negotiations, the Israelis and Palestinians have never agreed on the size or location of such blocs.
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Since 2010, Labour has consistently failed to match the Conservative Party's capacity to capture the votes of their respective ideological blocs.
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Iraqi political blocs are attempting to form a coalition government after a May 12 parliamentary election tainted by allegations of fraud.
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After the three opposition blocs agreed not to run candidates against each other, the government narrowly lost its overall majority there.
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If the U.S.-China dispute drags on, the world could become more divided as blocs form, experts said at the conference.
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The airstrikes will embolden the pro-Iranian blocs in parliament to push again for the expulsion of US forces from Iraq.
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These blocs share a number of the same policy interests, including healthcare, jobs, and the economy, but there are differences, too.
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While most pollsters see the two blocs winning roughly equal support, the figures for the Sweden Democrats differ widely between surveys.
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He blamed a conspiracy perpetrated by unnamed "sides" — a term often used in Iraq to denote other countries or political blocs.
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So energy policy for a green future needs to grapple with the influence of these regional power blocs to legislate effectively.
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But given how Clinton's other key voting blocs from 2008 have acted this cycle, Sanders may have reason to be hopeful.
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"As we near key primaries, it's even more apparent how crucial it is to talk to key voting blocs," Ms. Noerdlinger said.
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South Iraq is the popular base of the Shiite blocs that have led Iraqi governments since Saddam Hussein was deposed in 2003.
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Where strong alliances used to eliminate their enemies one by one, now voting blocs form, dissolve and reform from week to week.
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Under Brazilian campaign laws, Bolsonaro's tiny coalition has almost no campaign time on government-regulated candidate ad blocs on TV and radio.
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And women, who make up major voting blocs are going to have to embrace the responsibility to vote in mass for change.
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"I will impose sovereignty, but I will not distinguish between settlement blocs and isolated settlements," he said, per an Associated Press translation.
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The country now faces weeks of uncertainty as both blocs engage in frantic horse-trading to try to form the next government.
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In January, the Interior Department issued a draft plan than envisions leasing offshore drilling blocs off the Atlantic Coast beginning in 2020.
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In America, as Douglas Irwin describes in his magisterial history of trade policy, "Clashing over Commerce", battles between blocs determined trade strategy.
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For starters, everyone knows that Israel will absorb the major settlement blocs near the '85033 line as part of any peace agreement.
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With huge delegate blocs to be awarded in New York in April and California in June, he'll be tough to mathematically eliminate.
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The government and the firms involved in the blocs earlier this month also awarded an engineering design contract for a new pipeline.
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Mr. Trump carried so much baggage and had insulted so many voting blocs that some Clinton supporters began to imagine a landslide.
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We also hope the Democratic primary produces a ticket that can beat Donald Trump in swing states and among key voting blocs.
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These inroads into traditionally reliable Democrat voting blocs are giving rise to a developing existential threat to the party and its policies.
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Florida's diverse Hispanic community presents unique campaign challenges, as sub-blocs of Hispanic voters respond to different policy proposals and campaign styles.
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Trump may struggle in Arizona and Georgia, the Journal added, due to growing Hispanic voting blocs there that may reject the billionaire.
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The Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) will create one of the world's largest free trade blocs, with 44 countries now signed up.
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African Americans now make up 26% of the Democratic Party, making them one of the most powerful voting blocs in the party.
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The moderate Republican congressman also criticized the Trump campaign's decision to solidify traditional GOP voters at the expense of newer voting blocs.
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And with abortion-rights precedents suddenly at stake, all eyes will be on two swing blocs: moderate Republicans and red-state Democrats.
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The liberaltarian alternative I have in mind should not be thought of as a political alliance between liberal and libertarian voting blocs.
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Many members of Congress, especially in less populated areas, are also aware that federal employees are among their largest blocs of voters.
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The early portion of the night highlighted the skepticism that many of these blocs have toward self-described democratic socialist Bernie Sanders.
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If Merkel's coalition collapses, Germany faces the possibilities of a snap election, a minority government or an unwieldy alliance of three blocs.
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The competing opinions from the two four-justice blocs will mute the extent to which the decision sets precedent in other contexts.
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The coalition has been shaken by disputes over immigration, and the two blocs suffered painful losses in a national election last year.
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President Barham Salih said on Thursday that Abdul Mahdi was willing to resign if parliament's main blocs could agree on a replacement.
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Trump's leads are buoyed by strong support among traditional Republican demographics and only slim disadvantages among voting blocs that traditionally support Democrats.
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Seniors are much more likely to be white, a group that trends Republican, compared with the younger voter blocs Democrats rely on.
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The group, also known as Yaffed, has accused it of stalling to avoid alienating Hasidic leaders who control important blocs of votes.
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The Trump/Sanders era is going to create new opposition blocs, filled with people who never thought they would be working together.
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Despite Sweden's reputation for consensus-oriented politics, the two blocs are by tradition angry rivals and would hate to cooperate too closely.
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A new government, he says, should reform the electoral law to weaken the hold of the Shia blocs, and hold early elections.
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Mr. Woo is admired by many for his fair, sometimes even democratic, views, but he lacks visible support from major political blocs.
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But the real drivers of biofuel policy in both countries are powerful multiparty blocs of legislators representing rural areas and agricultural interests.
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First, unless these multiparty rural blocs can be broken up, or appeased in another way, ethanol will continue to receive lucrative subsidies.
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Mr. Rubio looks capable of stitching together portions of major Republican voting blocs: evangelicals, business people, supporters of the military and mainstream conservatives.
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Rubio is holding onto his 173 delegates, making his team one of the most important blocs of supporters heading to the national convention.
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In next year's European elections the centre-right and centre-left blocs may collectively fall below 50% of seats for the first time.
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JESUS MADRAZOHead of agricultural affairs and sustainabilityBayer Crop ScienceMonheim, Germany "Building blocs" (November 3rd) recounted the persistence of housing segregation in Northern Ireland.
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The two populist blocs had proposed Conte as their compromise candidate to lead the government after more than two months of political deadlock.
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Meanwhile multiple deadlines have been missed on the road to the Tripartite Free-Trade Area, a separate scheme to link three regional blocs.
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Castello Branco said that figure does not include bids for offshore exploration and production in blocs in Brazil scheduled for later this year.
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These works might have been on voting blocs, but they're of sufficient quality on their own to actually make it on the ballot.
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As the protests became entrenched and broadened, the political parties with parliamentary blocs began to look hard at possible candidates to replace him.
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"The prime minister has expressed his willingness to submit his resignation, asking the political blocs to reach an acceptable alternative," Mr. Salih said.
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She also said she would push for Taiwan to join trade blocs including the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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But the tactic could isolate Latinos and moderates, who are expected to form crucial voting blocs in a number of key battleground districts.
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Those blocs may be motivated by very different issues, and, as such, have very different tastes in content and ways of consuming it.
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Companies bidding for the excess oil in the area would have to compensate Petrobras for investments the company already made in the blocs.
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Italy has just introduced a new electoral system that is expected to handicap the anti-establishment 5-Star favoring instead mainstream political blocs.
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Police said the Black Blocs had mixed into a smaller demonstration of around 14,500 people which took place alongside the official union rally.
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"A cold war needs two major blocs against each other, but the U.S. allies are not forming a bloc with it against China."
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The party accuses the military of intimidating some of its leading figures into defecting to other blocs, and of unfairly supporting Mr. Khan.
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Revoking aid from refugees to punish Palestinian leaders, for instance, aligns with Mr. Trump's nationalist tendencies to treat foreign populations as monolithic blocs.
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The main center-right and center-left blocs have lost their majority, but they will continue to dominate the 751-member legislative body.
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Few of the remaining states on the map feature the voting blocs, chiefly large numbers of Hispanics, where Mr. Sanders has done well.
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The main parties broadly split into two blocs during the election campaign, providing some guidance to what kind of governing coalition could emerge.
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Yet three months later, as he sprints into Super Tuesday, he finds himself competitive in Southern states with large African American voting blocs.
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In The Farewell, China is a place of dark geometry; angular cranes and housing blocs tower into the frame, more brutal than brutalist.
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Trump has appeared to be playing favorites with politicians, voting blocs and certain industries when it comes to responding to the coronavirus crisis.
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Biden is still comfortably atop the polls, with strong support among communities of color, which are critical voting blocs within the Democratic base.
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"The government now is more homogenous, you don't have these sort of struggles between political blocs and parties inside the government," he said.
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He need not endorse the construction of unlimited settlement construction, but he should express support for building in the settlement blocs and Jerusalem.
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It's been in and out of the funding negotiations for months, and is exceedingly important to several delegations (and as such, voting blocs).
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The two Shi'ite figures said they would keep the door open for other winning blocs to join them in forming a new government.
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Armenia, Poland, Indonesia, Marshall Islands, South Korea and Japan beat competition in their regional blocs to win seats - Japan for a second term.
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Vladimir Putin wishes to fracture these blocs so that Russia can commandeer smaller nations and return them to the Russian sphere of influence.
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They have also approved plans to spend millions of dollars on outreach to key voting blocs including women, evangelicals, Latinos, and African Americans.
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S. agreement would boost American ties with its oldest ally and enable the two blocs to together help set standards for the future.
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Like all voting blocs, black voters have diverse priorities that crisscross the ideological spectrum, creating fault lines across regions, generations and economic class.
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In that case, the two blocs would have to negotiate a compromise on some crucial issues; the first would be saving the euro.
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The new policy announced on Friday made no explicit distinction between the blocs and the outlying settlements, in deference to the settlement advocates.
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If re-elected, Netanyahu told one interviewer he would "apply Israeli sovereignty" to the West Bank settlement blocs, as well as isolated settlements.
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If Israel keeps building outside the blocs or to the east of the security barrier, it will become one state for two peoples.
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Which is great news for him, because guys who just don't get it is one of the most powerful voting blocs in America.
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Videgaray spoke after Trump warned again that he would like to scrap the treaty that created one of the world's biggest trade blocs.
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The Cold War was global between two blocs of countries where it was ideological; there were two global political systems that were in conflict.
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Despite agreeing on broad policy outlines, the two blocs are divided on how to implement policies on immigration, car emissions, labor rules and welfare.
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"The process of government formation must be a national decision and importantly, must include the participation of all the winning blocs," the statement said.
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Most of the bids by the companies for the so-called Intracampos blocs include provisions for Ecuador to receive some 60 percent of production.
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In fact, Equality Voters accounted for 20203% of the electorate in 2018, making it one of the most substantial voting blocs in the election.
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Republicans realize they need Trump supporters, but are cognizant that his off-color rhetoric has turned off some key voting blocs in swing states.
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The largest blocs of opposition were found among gay men and those over 50, with both groups opposing the additional colors 70% to 30%.
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Mr. Macri does not have a majority in Congress, so he will need to negotiate with lawmakers from other blocs to pass the legislation.
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Beyond that, the BRICS, which account for nearly 29 percent of global GDP at purchasing power parity, share less in common than other blocs.
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They campaign squarely on local issues, and although they rarely combine to form durable political blocs, they do vote as coalitions on some policies.
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Barzani had struck alliances with several heads of major political blocs in parliament but they were unable to whip the votes for his candidate.
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Florida is a sprawling, diverse swing state with multiple voting blocs and ethnicities, which is part of what makes it so unpredictable in politics.
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The census is used to distribute nearly $2628 trillion in government programs, to apportion political power, and to divide the country into racial blocs.
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The task of forming a majority government now falls to Benny Gantz, a centrist former IDF general who has vowed to strengthen settlement blocs.
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It has long frustrated Taiwan and has the power, behind the scenes, to discourage countries or blocs from signing free-trade deals with Taiwan.
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The House GOP's repeal bill was pulled from the floor last month after losing support from both conservative and moderate blocs of the party.
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If global commerce splits into separate trading and regulatory blocs, Germany will find it harder to sell its goods to customers around the world.
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But this can also have the effect of setting up reliable, predictable blocs of people who always vote for one party or the other.
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Italy has very high public debt, the blocs' second biggest after Greece, and is included in a group of countries that face "urgent challenges".
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A second phase, which will begin in February and end on July 31, will enable petroleum companies to evaluate the potential of the blocs.
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And of course, the second problem is Turkey's constant paralysis, almost permanent paralysis, between these two blocs that oppose Erdoğan and that love Erdoğan.
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The three blocs are also nearing agreement on the issue of legalizing marijuana through pharmacies or other licensed distributors, the Stuttgarter Zeitung newspaper reported.
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Mr. Sanders has big weaknesses among key blocs of nonblack voters: Hispanics, white voters in the South, affluent white voters and older white voters.
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Some of the change between early voting and Election Day could have been caused by differences in the compositions of the two voting blocs.
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S. decision to limit border crossings — or through regional blocs, such as the EU. Those agreements, however, could have negative impacts elsewhere on Earth.
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That's a risky move when one considers, as LittleRedBunny noted, that any major branding change risks jettisoning entire blocs of one's overall fan base.
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Europe today, unlike in 1948, is not divided into competing blocs, requiring a significant investment of American money and manpower to keep the peace.
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Warren, No. 16-1275, was decided by fractured vote, with two three-justice blocs agreeing on the bottom line but differing in their reasoning.
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The Christian right represents one of most influential voting blocs for President Trump and the Republican Party, and Mr. Harris represents their ideal candidate.
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The main parties, however, broadly split into two blocs during the election campaign, providing some guidance to what kind of governing coalition could emerge.
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He walloped a field of 38 other candidates representing different political blocs in Ukraine, most of whom attracted only small fractions of the vote.
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Blue and White has said it would "strengthen the settlement blocs" in the West Bank, with the Jordan Valley as Israel's "eastern security border".
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In South Florida, which has diverse and overlapping voting blocs, candidates try to win votes in sympathetic constituencies and limit the damage in others.
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The two blocs might even formally create a government of national unity, though talks to do so after the past several elections have failed.
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The strike — on Iraqi soil, killing Iraqi officials, without Iraqi consent — appears to have united the two largest rival Shiite parliamentary blocs behind expulsion.
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But the Nordic country's main political blocs are already pushing back against the Sweden Democrats, and are seeking to prevent it from entering government.
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African American women have been one of the most reliable and underappreciated voting blocs for decades, and the indisputable backbone of the Democratic Party.
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And it's partly due to Trump's extraordinary unpopularity, which has repelled key blocs of the electorate including young people, women and college-educated whites.
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In our quest to quarterback the race, predominantly white electorates bestow "surge" status upon candidates who are out of step with crucial voting blocs.
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Kenya moved a closer to full production at the blocs this month when the local government and the national government agreed on revenue sharing.
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More than 40 countries and a number of regional blocs, such as the European Union, have already rejected the vote and disavowed its results.
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The international community views exclusion from blocs like the G7 to be a key pressure tactic for discouraging Russia from meddling in other countries.
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Most of the construction, it said, would be in existing settlement blocs that Israel intends to keep under any future peace agreement with the Palestinians.
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An independent who did not run in the May election himself, Abdul Mahdi was chosen as a compromise candidate by the two largest parliamentary blocs.
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Some of the settlements -- especially the blocs -- may be a part of Israel in a two-state solution through land swaps between Israelis and Palestinians.
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They were approved after the Islah and Bina blocs agreed to allow a vote on five outstanding ministries - but not the defense and interior portfolios.
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The biggest of eight blocs in the chamber with 215, or 29 percent, of the 751 seats, the EPP will choose its candidate in December.
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In the end, Trump and Ryan couldn't satisfy enough members of both blocs, especially because any concessions to one group repelled members of the other.
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The rival and two most powerful parliamentary blocs of Sadr and a grouping of Iran-backed parties put their differences aside to approve Allawi's nomination.
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The two biggest blocs have dipped slightly in most polls in the last month or so while some of the smaller parties have inched up.
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But its outcome could put third countries in one camp or the other, increasing the risk that the world eventually splits into two techno-blocs.
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The big mainstream blocs — the center-left Social Democrats and the center-right European People's Party — are likely to lose their long-held combined majority.
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Both blocs claim to hold a parliamentary majority but the dispute has been rendered irrelevant by their choice of the same man to be premier.
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Their cramped apartment blocs stand in stark contrast to the red-roofed, spacious houses with gardens that identify most settlements built on West Bank hilltops.
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He explained that he feels he is best positioned to reassemble the coalition of voting blocs that helped lift Ronald Reagan to the White House.
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But all the while he faces constant criticism from political blocs, used to using their control of ministries to hand out favors to their supporters.
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Kenya this month moved a step closer to full production at the blocs when the local government and the national government agreed on revenue sharing.
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The efforts are intended to cut down on votes by white liberals, young women and black voters, three blocs important for Clinton, the official said.
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In between the French- and British-ruled blocs, large swathes of territory, mostly desert, would be allocated to the two powers' respective spheres of influence.
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Still, the White House proposal follows a well-worn formula in immigration negotiations — trading enforcement measures for legalizing blocs of immigrants in the country illegally.
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It is hard to imagine a scenario where Donald Trump was the nominee without the field of 16 other Republican candidates cannibalizing the voter blocs.
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While he has gained intense popularity on the right, Mr. Trump has alienated key blocs in the Republican coalition with his slash-and-burn campaign.
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As our conversation wrapped up, I asked Mr. Sanders how he would tailor his message to voting blocs in the coming state primaries and caucuses.
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Some residents say local politicians are fuelling the violence in an effort to win votes from particular ethnic blocs in national elections scheduled for August.
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The chart below shows the companies that submitted the highest total winning offers in Lease Sale 2.13 and how many blocs they successfully bid on.
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In Nevada, which has the fastest-growing populations of both Hispanics and Asian-Americans in the West, the new immigrant blocs have become political powerhouses.
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The session was adjourned amid disagreements as two blocs, both claiming to hold the most seats, vied for the right to form a new government.
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Many of these groups have large numbers of representatives in the Iraqi Parliament, where the power to designate ministers is divided among the political blocs.
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Over the last six or seven years, he said, up to half the new building has been deep in the West Bank, outside the blocs.
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And Klobuchar has shown no ability to win over Latino or black voters, voting blocs that will be key in the next two nominating contests.
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Like all voting blocs, they have an array of priorities that inform diverse policy perspectives through many identity factors, and voter support extends beyond representation.
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Under their system, the Flux Party founders say, large blocs of voters could effectively grant their vote on such issues to a scientist or economist.
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The EU and Japan negotiated a major trade deal ahead of the G20 summit that would remove tariffs on some exports between the two blocs.
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Even though Mr. Perriello sought to outflank him on the left, Mr. Northam won in part because of his strength with crucial liberal voter blocs.
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Unlike other voting blocs, women don't cluster together in communities where they interact predominantly with other women and share the same social and economic realities.
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The latest opinion polls suggest that Sweden's main center-left and center-right political blocs are practically running neck-and-neck ahead of the vote.
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With the recent replacement of Justice Anthony Kennedy with Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Chief Justice Roberts now sits between the conservative and liberal blocs of justices.
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Since 2000, the concept of absorbing settlement blocs into Israel and compensating the Palestinians with territorial swaps has been a part of every peace effort.
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They were just three people – four counting Aurora – somehow trying to control a game when there were other voting blocs just as big as their own.
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Some secular settlers, among others, live in settlements near the Green Line and in the blocs because of more affordable housing or quality of life considerations.
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A negotiating blueprint hammered out by the two political blocs did not mention the NATO target specifically - dodging an issue that continues to divide the parties.
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The second, that members should be elected competitively rather than by regional blocs voting for "clean slates" (pre-cooked lists), is more feasible but still unlikely.
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The Economy Ministry said South Korea currently has 15 free trade agreements with various countries and trading blocs, including the U.S., the EU, India and China.
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Earlier in June, Sadr and second-placed Hadi al-Amiri, a Shi'ite militia commander with close ties to Iran, had announced an alliance between their blocs.
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That has turned sovereign-wealth funds, pension funds and the like, which vote in proportion to the shares they manage, into the equivalent of voting blocs.
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Critics have blasted the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity as a waste of time and money whose true purpose is to suppress Democratic voting blocs.
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"All the Shiite blocs reached the conclusion that their divisions could lead to an intra-Shi'ite conflict which would weaken their position in Iraqi," he said.
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She added that it had scrapped plans to auction oil blocs in an offshore region known as the subsalt, even though projects there remain technically viable.
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Flanked by BJP president Amit Shah, Modi met cabinet ministers, party colleagues and dozens of the leaders from regional blocs that are part of the alliance.
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Looking at the arts-and-crafts-influenced blocs fanning out from around us, it's striking just how good the Boundary Estate looks after all this time.
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Last year 26 African countries signed an agreement to create a "Tripartite Free Trade Area", combining the existing eastern and southern African trade blocs into one.
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But he has sought to ramp up those efforts in recent months, as he seeks to secure support among one of Florida's most influential voting blocs.
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Among the most significant of the voting blocs that have sided with her opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, are working-class white voters, whom Mrs.
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Rubio is seen as a potent possible matchup against Hillary Clinton because he is expected to attract votes from Hispanics and millennials, two crucial voting blocs.
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Both candidates continue to post stratospheric unfavorable ratings and these influential voting blocs could be the deciding factor determining the next occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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To them, the prize of Brexit is too great to be compromised away by the reality of negotiation with one of the world's largest trading blocs.
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These sparring blocs are unified by a single fear: avoiding any settlement that would make extradition of former government officials to the United States more likely.
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The recount has been a politically fraught issue with the leaders of winning blocs embroiled in negotiations for weeks over the formation of the next government.
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He made several proposals but has been unable to make meaningful changes in the face of opposition from other political blocs worried about losing their influence.
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Then within each of these economic regional blocs, let's look at the key elephant populations, the key rhino populations and maybe one or two key landscapes.
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"I am going to extend (Israeli) sovereignty and I don't distinguish between settlement blocs and the isolated settlements," he told Israel's Channel 12 News on Saturday.
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The Israeli settlement blocs in the West Bank would be incorporated into Israel; in exchange, the Palestinians would receive land that is currently part of Israel.
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Since neither the traditional left or right blocs won a majority, the Sweden Democrats, with roots in the neo-Nazi movement, hold the balance of power.
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Quietly, Mr. de Blasio and his top aides have worked to preserve his interests, asking members to "keep an open mind" to prevent blocs from hardening.
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Among Republican women -- one of the key swing voting blocs heading into 2020, a majority (54%) support an assault weapons ban, while just 36% oppose it.
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A count of the broader blocs needed to form a coalition government gave Mr. Netanyahu's Likud party a clear advantage over Mr. Gantz's Blue and White.
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"The bourgeois and left-wing blocs are playing a game of chicken right now," said Lars Tragardh, a history professor at Ersta Skondal Bracke University College.
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The further the median justice is from the conservative and liberal blocs, the more difficult it is for either group to form a majority voting bloc.
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He may yet secure a second term as a compromise candidate if he joins his blocs with Sadr and Amiri and manages to win their backing.
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"I expected that voters would punish the big political blocs for their failures," said Hussein Allawi, a political science professor at Al Nahrain University in Baghdad.
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But at least five states - Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Virginia - have big blocs of African-American voters that could help Biden make a comeback.
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Vietnam's trade agreements with TPP and the EU require textile manufacturers source their own yarns, dyes and fabrics locally or from within the respective trade blocs.
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But Blue and White has also said it would strengthen Jewish settlement blocs in the West Bank, with the Jordan Valley as Israel's "eastern security border".
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The question is who can preserve separation as an option by making the difficult political decision to stop building and expanding settlements outside of the blocs.
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The main opposition Congress party and other regional blocs concentrated on the government's economic mismanagement and inability to create jobs in their attempt to win voters.
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"The issue is that you've got blocs," said James Dorsey, a senior fellow at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and Middle East Institute in Singapore.
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Like most African Americans, I have ancestors who arrived across three centuries in different blocs of ethnic groups brought to distinct regions of the southeastern coast.
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You can expect to hear the candidates reaching out to key Republican voting blocs in the state, including evangelicals, affluent moderates in the low country, and veterans.
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But Asadi said more than 30 representatives of other blocs have already agreed to join the initiative to form a parliamentary coalition including Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds.
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Israel will retain control over all the major settlement blocs, acknowledging these facts on the ground never could have been erased in the most generous peace offer.
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Bickering between Iraq's big political blocs—the Iran-leaning Fatah and antiIranian Saairoun—reflects tussling between America and Iran over the composition of Mr Abdul-Mahdi's cabinet.
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The large centre-right and centre-left blocs lost their combined majority in the European Parliament, as the world's biggest multi-country election results came in Monday.
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Her performance will be watched to see if she can make inroads with more moderate voters and African Americans -- two other crucial blocs of the Democratic coalition.
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Who ultimately prevails in the ideological standoff between blocs led by Kushner and Bannon could determine the trajectory of Trump's term in the months or years ahead.
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Whether the new opposition blocs can grab power may depend on their ability to galvanize voters — turnout at Polish elections can be as low as 50 percent.
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" And in Trump, who has alienated large blocs of voters with his brusque approach and incendiary statements, Pelosi said Democrats have "the gift that keeps on giving.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday approved the expansion of settlement blocs in the West Bank despite international pressure to halt construction in the occupied territories.
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Brazil's Congress is evaluating proposed changes to the country's oil legislation, particularly in relation to the vast offshore oil blocs in a region known as the subsalt.
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The voting blocs of the Sad/Rabid puppies largely came together after 2014, as it became clear that voters were voting heavily for these sorts of works.
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The Senate race has grabbed national headlines as O'Rourke has ignited various Democratic voting blocs and made the Senate race in deep-red Texas closer than expected.
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French police warned on Monday of possible clashes with far-left anarchist groups, known as Black Blocs, after a call on social media for a "Revolutionary Day".
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The president's divisive tweets, bullying and flagrant lies have pushed away moderate voting blocs who will play an important role in swing states in the 2020 election.
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"Private backroom nominations committees producing 'recommended' slates, county delegations voting in blocs, floor motions made targeting our supporters," Trump national delegate director Brian Jacks told Breitbart News.
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Those are key voting blocs in the path to the majority, which could be fueling Pelosi's eagerness to dive head first into the anti-corruption messaging strategy.
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The drop in 2016 is not linked to an economic crisis, as both blocs are growing steadily, but is part of a wider reduction of global trade.
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Geographical trading blocs already exist in Africa, such as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), East African Community (EAC) and Southern African Customs Union (SACU).
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"A deal of this magnitude is like an invitation card for speaking with other countries and trade blocs," Camardelli told Reuters in an interview late on Thursday.
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Some voters may be fed up with the establishment, but they're still largely backing pro-EU parties, even if they're looking elsewhere than the traditional centrist blocs.
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A campaign against Kurdish separatists has always found support among nationalists and other backers of a strong Turkish state, two of the biggest political blocs in Turkey.
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China, a country the size of a small continent, tends to leverage its heft by negotiating with other states one-on-one rather than through regional blocs.
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Both blocs have sworn not to make a deal with the Sweden Democrats, the right-wing, anti-immigration party that now controls enough seats to play kingmaker.
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Political analysts of voter purging have noted that the purges disproportionally affect low-income and minority populations — voting blocs that are historically more likely to vote Democratic.
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Under the terms of the plan, Israel is subject to a freeze on new settlement construction — at least, outside the existing blocs — for the next four years.
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They say that he sticks his foot in his mouth more times than not, is short on policy ideas and is unliked by several important voting blocs.
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But another participant in the talks said the two blocs were still struggling to find common ground on the most divisive issues - taxes, pensions, migration and healthcare.
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"Today will be remembered in the history of Iraq that the people chose their prime minister and not the political blocs," Mr. Sadr tweeted on Saturday night.
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But with the governing coalition in tatters and rival political blocs furiously forming new alignments, the only constant in Malaysia on Monday was a sense of uncertainty.
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Two political blocs - Bina, backed by Iran, and Islah, led by populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr - are closely involved in backroom discussions to agree on a candidate.
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In 2016, Russian operatives and the Trump campaign alike used social media targeting tools to depress turnout among African American voters and other key Democratic voting blocs.
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Opposition to the government among parliamentary blocs who have begun boycotting legislative meetings is already brewing, adding pressure on Abdul Mahdi and his cabinet to step down.
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Thousands of protestors, who are demanding fresh elections and an end to the domination of existing political blocs, took to the streets in support of Salih's stand.
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The two main blocs dispute who has the most seats because this was never made clear in the current parliament, and some lawmakers have frequently switched allegiance.
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Two blocs of political parties, one backed by Iran and the other populist and anti-Iranian, are closely involved in backroom deals to agree on a candidate.
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The other of the two blocs that have defined Swedish politics for a decade, the four-party center-right Alliance coalition, trailed close behind on 38.5 percent.
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After decades outsourcing its trade policy to the EU, Britain is about to embark on negotiating free trade agreements with countries and trade blocs around the world.
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But he would need to overcome decades of acrimony between the two blocs and get support from parties on the center-right, something they have ruled out.
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The latest: The center-left and right-wing blocs, led by Gantz and Netanyahu respectively, were also roughly tied with 55-56 seats each on Wednesday morning.
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And with abortion-rights precedents that have existed for decades suddenly at stake, all eyes will be on two swing blocs: moderate Republicans and red-state Democrats.
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Beyond the major blocs, most of which are close to the border with Israel, there are more than 100 settlement outposts scattered across hilltops in the West Bank.
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Voters over the age of 50 — one of the most reliable voting blocs in the American electorate — are breaking for Sanders' opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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The draft statement, dated March 8, said the two trading blocs would set "deadlines for their swift removal by the next EU-China summit 2020 at the latest".
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Candidates know that LGBTQ voters and our allies are among the most highly active and engaged voting blocs in the nation, consistently outperforming our presence in the electorate.
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While many settlements are in blocs close to the Israeli border, the outposts are distantly scattered, with the apparent aim of creating a presence throughout the West Bank.
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For the first time in the parliament's history, its two main blocs, the European People's Party and the Socialists and Democrats, failed to achieve a majority between them.
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The two largest blocs are likely to be Nasr ("Victory"), led by Prime Minister Abadi, and Fatah ("Conquest"), led by pro-Iranian former militia leader Hadi al-Amiri.
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But he was forced to present a modified list on Tuesday after parliament's dominant political blocs rejected the initial one and insisted on putting forward their own nominations.
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Channel 12's poll was more dramatic and showed Gantz leading Netanyahu 37 to 34, with the right-wing and centre-left blocs tied at 60 seats each.
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Gorsuch's confirmation essentially continues the ideological balance that existed before Scalia's death, with four conservatives, four liberals and Justice Anthony Kennedy as a swing vote between the blocs.
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But the two Catalan blocs ultimately refused to back his budget, because they were dissatisfied with the framework he suggested for talks between separatists and pro-unity politicians.
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Plus the whole thing was shot on iPhone 5s, which doesn't endear such an enterprise to the craft union members who comprise most of the Academy voting blocs.
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Between them, they can no longer form a majority, making them more reliant to pass European laws on support from liberal and Green blocs that both made gains.
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Sunday's vote, as expected, showed gains by the unaligned anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, leaving both the center-left and opposition center-right party blocs short of a majority.
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With both the mainstream blocs lacking a majority and unwilling to work together, parliamentary speaker Andreas Norlen said on Friday the vote would probably take place on Dec.
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The DGB Confederation of German Trade Unions, which represents some 6 million workers, said a blueprint agreed by the two political blocs would result in advances for workers.
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President Obama then theorised it as a geopolitical strategy of trading blocs, signed treaties and withdrew from the Middle East, saying: "This is no longer my neighbourhood policy".
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Segura said polling on immigration shows most voting blocs are put off by some Trump policies, such as the separation of parents from their children at the border.
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Likewise, some regional blocs like the East African Community have made great strides toward integration and in lowering barriers to trade between members, boosting their collective economic potential.
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As President Donald Trump continues to push for one-on-one trade partnerships in Asia, Australia's minister for trade says his country still sees merit in bigger blocs.
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Chile awards most of its power in 24-hour blocs, in which solar companies cannot effectively compete because they would be required to provide power during the night.
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Sabine Weyand, the European Commission's new Director General of Trade, said a wave of tit-for-tat tariffs would result in a negative situation for both economic blocs.
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And it seems unlikely that West Point, one of the largest voting blocs in Monrovia, will be moved before presidential and legislative elections at the end of 2017.
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Sweden has a history of cooperation across ideological and partisan lines on policy issues like pensions and defense, but the blocs have long resisted forming a government together.
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The shortfall in pledges on Tuesday could hurt the political standing of Mr. Abadi, who faces a tough re-election battle May 12 against pro-Iranian political blocs.
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When those blocs are forced to take sides between the United States and Iran, the balance becomes all but unattainable and Iraq's viability as a state is jeopardized.
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But among the chief concerns for Democrats are motivating young voters and African Americans, as the survey found a lack of enthusiasm among those key liberal voting blocs.
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Bob ShamisBronxville, N.Y. To the Editor: As long as the United States stands with its allies, blocs such as the European Union and NATO are stronger than Russia.
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" Speaking to his party faithful on Thursday, Mr. Gantz called upon Mr. Netanyahu and his Likud to resume unity talks immediately, "without preconditions, without spin and without blocs.
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Two regional blocs are emerging: the Saudis, Egypt and their Gulf allies, backed by the US and (quietly) Israel versus Turkey, Qatar and (quietly) Iran, backed by Russia.
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Just which parties coalesce from among the three main blocs - the center-right coalition, center-left coalition and the anti-establishment 2600-Star Movement - will determine Italy's course.
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But some of the shine has already come off Mr. Mahathir's administration, which brought together an unlikely and potentially unruly collection of political blocs with little in common.
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If CPC members get seats on the "A" committees, and progressives can mobilize voting blocs, then the left has a real opportunity to wield influence in the House.
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The largest settlements, known as settlement blocs, are adjacent to the 1967 lines, constitute a tiny percentage of the West Bank's territory and hold the vast majority of settlers.
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"If there is a change, our job will be to continue to have trade agreements with as many countries and trade blocs as possible," Etchevehere told reporters last month.
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And in a fractured primary -- which is already developing in Alabama and could happen in Kansas -- their blocs of support might just be enough to win them the nominations.
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If confirmed, Gorsuch would continue the ideological balance that existed before Scalia's death, with four conservatives, four liberals and Justice Anthony Kennedy as a swing vote between the blocs.
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Black voters in general have long been one of the most reliable voting blocs for the Democratic Party, and their share of the electorate has increased over the years.
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To varying degrees the other EPP front-runners all represent that old sort of European politics, a consensus between traditionally hegemonic—but now declining—Christian-democrat and socialist blocs.
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Sunday's election as expected showed gains by the unaligned anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, leaving both the center-right and ruling center-left party blocs well shy of a majority.
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An initial plan to meet the leaders of all the European Parliament's party blocs was canceled — allowing Cameron to avoid a confrontation with his eurosceptic domestic critic Nigel Farage.
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The agreement, which was reached 215 years to the day after negotiations began in 1999, would eliminate tariffs on more than 90% of goods traded between the two blocs.
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Once the government is sworn in, its program will be put to confidence votes in both houses of the Italian parliament, where the two blocs have a slight majority.
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"Relations between the world's major trading blocs remain strained and there is ongoing uncertainty about the introduction of trade tariffs post-Brexit", port CEO Allard Castelein said on Thursday.
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Petrobras CEO Pedro Parente himself has argued for changes in the law, saying he would like to have the freedom to decide in which blocs the company will participate.
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Yet the ties between the voting blocs that favour Democrats—Hispanics, blacks, those with postgraduate degrees, single women, the non-religious, union members and millennials—are subject to change.
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Police commanders responded to political leaders, who in turn saw reliable voting blocs that did not need to be wooed with costly advertisements or get-out-the-vote campaigns.
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Democrats don't really have single-issue voting blocs as a matter of course, and it's exceedingly difficult to imagine that they're going to organically develop an anti-impeachment one.
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Latinos have traditionally participated less in elections than other voting blocs, but statistics show they participate at equal or higher numbers to whites once they are registered to vote.
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He acknowledged in his speech that the reshuffle would replace ministers chosen by political blocs and approved by parliament in accordance with the constitution, but urged politicians to cooperate.
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The current popularity of the anti-establishment parties in Italy's new coalition, 5-Star and The League, boosts the possibility their current blocs in Brussels will increase in strength.
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So the first thing we want to suggest is, let's take each of the big six regional economic blocs of Africa, and let's look at the continent that way.
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When those circumstances exist, companies still open their wallets in the Gulf — 9 blocs received bids higher than $2 million, and the highest single bid was over $7 million.
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The Sweden Democrats, anti-immigration nationalists that have been shunned by all other parties, recorded gains, as expected, depriving both the left- and right-wing blocs of a majority.
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Also undermining prices is concern that the growing trade dispute between the United States and other major trading blocs, particularly China, could dampen economic activity and squeeze oil demand.
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Critics argued that some voters lacked those documents and that the law omitted some forms of identification, such as student IDs, held by blocs of voters who favor Democrats.
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A likely result is that the allies associate with trade blocs like the European Union or the revised Trans-Pacific Partnership so that they can better resist his bullying.
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Sunday's election, as expected, showed gains by the unaligned anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, leaving both the center-right and ruling center-left party blocs well shy of a majority.
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In places like Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands, impassioned minorities of populist nationalists have formed large parliamentary blocs that allow them to wield meaningful influence over national politics.
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But a count of the broader blocs needed to form a coalition government appeared to give Mr. Netanyahu's Likud party a clear advantage over Mr. Gantz's Blue and White.
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Quinn's "Peace Line Series" documents the dramatic angles and skewed perspectives imposed by the Orwellian "peace walls," built over the years to partition neighborhoods into Catholic and Protestant blocs.
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This promises to be a close decision, likely a 5-4 vote with Chief Justice John Roberts breaking a tie between the two four-justice liberal and conservative blocs.
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Fifty-eight percent of Americans, 79 percent of Mexicans and 74 percent of Canadians support the idea of their countries participating in one of the world's biggest trading blocs.
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It is the same reasoning behind the Republican push for their health care bill — they need to mollify the base even at the risk of alienating other voting blocs.
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On-shore blocs would have minimum local purchasing requirements of 50 percent, for both exploration and development, while the percentage for off-shore exploration would drop to 18 percent.
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And though her slogan was "Stronger Together," her campaign was ultimately predicated on celebrating difference, in the hope that disparate voting blocs would come out and vote for her.
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In Britain, rather than focus on just the Conservative and the Labour Parties, let's first step back and look at two broad blocs, which we'll call left and right.
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Taken together, though, the unique qualities of each mean several key blocs of voters get at least one opportunity to have an outsized role in the early nomination process.
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Elizabeth Warren, who has put forward a slew of progressive policies but calls herself a capitalist, is seen as fighting for some of the same voting blocs as Sanders.
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Also undermining prices is concern the growing trade war between the United States and other major trading blocs, particularly, China, could dampen economic activity and hence squeeze oil demand.
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The Red Sea -- one of the world's most important sea lanes -- has become one theater of competition for these blocs, with naval bases being built in Sudan and Somalia.
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"If no-one wins a clear majority, then the two (political) blocs will have to reach a (coalition) deal, as happens in Germany," Berlusconi told RTL radio on Wednesday.
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One of the most successful of Africa's many trade blocs, it should be superseded by a continent-wide free trade area that will begin trading in July next year.
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In a separate letter, the European Commission warned Mnuchin the planned overhaul contained elements that risk seriously hampering trade and investment flows between the world's two biggest economic blocs.
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For decades, the communities have largely been allowed to evade government oversight, thanks to politicians who have enjoyed their support as one of the state's most powerful voting blocs.
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But rising polarization, along with a handful of divisive nominees, has led to large blocs of opposing senators casting nay votes on Cabinet nominations starting in the early 2000s.
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"I call on all political blocs to charge the prime minister with completing the cabinet formation process within 10 days," Sadr said in a letter released by his office.
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But none got the mysterious invitations on Tuesday, diplomats said, which galled Mouna Ghanem, a Syrian politician who is not part of either the Russia-backed or Saudi-backed blocs.
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Macron, who formed his own movement to run for the French presidency in 2017, shattering the traditional center-right and center-left blocs, had never contested a European election before.
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Nevertheless, it has held a succession of free, fair and peaceful national elections marked by record levels of voter participation and several smooth transfers of power among competing political blocs.
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The appeals court in California examined the Immigration and Naturalisation Act and found that only Congress is equipped to implement an indefinite ban on issuing visas to blocs of foreigners.
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Hariri is supported by the largest blocs in parliament and will most likely work on forming a national unity Cabinet, similar to the one he&aposs been heading since 2016.
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But after signing a landmark deal to develop Kurdish oil fields in 2011, Exxon did little exploration, and has since handed some of the blocs back to the Kurdish government.
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"As I pointed out to all political blocs, progress or development must have a base and the base is political stability," Ghanem told Reuters after polls closed on Saturday night.
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Naming a speaker and two deputies is the first major step towards establishing a new government, with lawmakers still trying to determine which of competing blocs had the most seats.
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This is what the Trump campaign, like Romney before it, appears to be banking on: that Clinton simply can't replicate Obama's numbers with voting blocs that are historically low-propensity.
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These are the wasteland stretches with grey industrial blocs and good teriyaki and massive tarps welcoming BAD CREDIT without specifying what those with BAD CREDIT will be allowed to buy.
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Gantz, whose new Resilience party is gaining ground against Netanyahu's Likud with as many as 24 projected seats, has said he wanted to strengthen settlement blocs in the West Bank.
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But it will be difficult for them to form a viable government since the mainstream parties which work together in two separate blocs have ruled out a deal with them.
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Weber did not, however, rule out that his group might back a "consensus candidate" from another of the mainstream, pro-EU blocs in the chamber, which include liberals and greens.
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The Remain campaign promotes an obsolete European project, a throwback to the 1950s when big regional trade blocs looked like the future, and size and scale seemed paramount in economics.
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They were regular guests at Christian homeschooling conventions, and while this is an admittedly fringe faction even within evangelicalism, Christian homeschoolers still represent powerful lobbying blocs at the state level.
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Many of the jobs are in large settlement blocs built close to the frontier with Israel, in areas Israel intends to keep in any final peace agreement with the Palestinians.
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Donald J. Trump has driven large blocs of voters — women, educated whites and growing numbers of minorities — away from the Republican Party, but his appeal among military veterans is strong.
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While globalization has created enormous economic benefits for both blocs, they need to find ways to address the adverse effects of globalization on their workforce: another important priority for Trump.
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Meanwhile, like plenty of NYC politicians before him, Mayor de Blasio has long been accused of cozying up with the Orthodox Jewish community, whose various sects represent powerful voting blocs.
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"I'm going to apply sovereignty, but I don't distinguish between settlement blocs and the isolated settlement points, because from my perspective every such point of settlement is Israeli," he said.
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The combination of economically conservative and socially moderate views does not match up today with the large blocs of voters who identify with either the Democratic or the Republican Party.
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Alternatively, one of the blocs could form a minority government, but doing so needs cooperation from at least some members of the opposition, and in many cases requires concessions, too.
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Though Mr. Netanyahu emerged slightly ahead, the size of the country's two main electoral blocs — one mainly religious and conservative, the other secular and comparatively centrist — did not significantly change.
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"If it freezes into a permanent conflict, and you have two big blocs confronting each other, then the danger of a pre-World War I situation is huge," Kissinger said.
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Brazil's biggest ever oil auction three weeks ago disappointed as only Brazilian state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. and Chinese firms bid for two of the four blocs offered.
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The gains by the Sweden Democrats mean that both the center-left and center-right blocs do not have enough seats for a majority, so a coalition will be necessary.
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Iraq's president named former communications minister Mohammad Allawi as the country's new prime minister after an 11th-hour consensus among political blocs, but the streets seemed divided on his nomination.
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But 2628 is more than that – it is a lesson for the beltway elites, and proves that America must focus on its future, not yesterday's policies, politicians and voting blocs.
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Indian policies in a sense represent what Trump wants to do himself: protect domestic manufacturing and farmers through tariffs and quotas as a way of winning over important voting blocs.
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)While the UK prepares to leave one of the world's largest trading blocs, Africa's most populous country, Nigeria, is declining to join one in the first place.
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Building within the blocs -- the areas close to the 1967 lines that are adjacent to Israel's urban areas, and where most settlers live -- is consistent with a two-state outcome.
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"The principal enemy of the settlement blocs and the Jerusalem neighborhoods is Netanyahu himself," Mr. Barak, an increasingly vocal critic of Mr. Netanyahu, said on Israeli television on Saturday night.
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You don't have to be a political wizard to understand that alienating growing blocs of voters — not just Latinos, but also other immigrants and younger people — is bad political strategy.
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Pence, who used his trip to Europe to push Trump's policy of favoring sovereign states as opposed to alliances and blocs, took aim at the EU over Venezuela's political crisis.
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During his inaugural campaign speech, Gantz said, "We will strengthen the settlement blocs" and "retain control of security in the entire land of Israel" — including the West Bank and Gaza.
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In Bahia, the oil company will sell its 14 concessions in the Polo Reconcavo area, where it owns a 100% share in all but two of the blocs, Petrobras said.
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The security fence currently being built around these blocs should be completed, yet with allowance given to ensure the territorial contiguity of Palestinian lands and prevent the isolation of Palestinian villages.
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The filibuster has gone from being rarely used to constantly applied, from being a last-ditch tool minority blocs use to protect their interests to a standard feature of partisan obstruction.
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He said after his meetings that he shared the Gulf leaders worries' about the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, citing "significant" disputes among the country's Shiite political blocs.
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Evangelicals have one of the most powerful blocs in the country, and high-profile pastors have the power to direct their congregations toward voting for (and donating to) their anointed candidates.
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Obama's growing popularity -- a CNN/ORC poll released Thursday found his approval rating at 55%, the highest mark of his second term -- lends Hillary Clinton significant credibility in key Democratic blocs.
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French police had warned on Tuesday that there could be clashes with far-left anarchist groups, known as Black Blocs, after calls on social media for radicals to hit the streets.
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Elections for the parliament were held last month and the vote returned a more fragmented hemicycle — weakening the traditional center-right and center-left blocs that have dominated for 40 years.
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) said on Tuesday it was launching a competitive exploration and production licensing round for six oil and gas blocs, its first ever.
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As the demonstrators were gathering in central Baghdad's Tahrir (Liberation) Square, state TV said Abadi had asked political blocs in parliament and "influential social figures" to nominate technocrats as ministerial candidates.
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With globalization shifting to a multi-dimensional tug-of-war among power centers, economic growth, and geopolitical threats, most CEOs are now dealing with multiple value systems, frameworks, and trading blocs.
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Tensions over basic services come at a sensitive time when Iraqi political blocs are attempting to form a coalition government after a May 12 parliamentary election tainted by allegations of fraud.
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The U.S.-Mexico NAFTA talks resumed three weeks ago, without Canada at the table, after negotiations involving all three members of one of the world's largest trade blocs stalled in June.
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But many are equally worried about Trump's divisive rhetoric that could turn off key voting blocs like Hispanics and suburban women, believing that would do lasting harm to the Republican Party.
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Those are also all Trump states, and those Democrats are trying to strike a delicate balance: turning out the Democratic base without turning off their larger blocs of Trump-leaning constituents.
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Le Président Obama, le théorisant ensuite par une géopolitique des blocs commerciaux, a fait ses traités et s'est désengagé du Moyen Orient en disant " Ce n'est plus ma politique de voisinage ".
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Nationalist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and Iranian-backed militia chief Hadi al-Amiri, who won first and second place respectively in the polls, have announced an alliance between their political blocs.
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The anti-immigration, nationalist Sweden Democrats, which are shunned by all other parties, recorded large gains, as expected leaving both the right- and left-wing blocs well short of a majority.
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The presidential election of 22004 was a milestone in partisan realignment — the breakup of the mid-21990th-century Democrats and Republicans and the reshuffling of voter blocs among the two parties.
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Analysts say negotiations over these little-known property provisions will profoundly impact students, farmers and consumers across North America as officials work to update one of the world's largest trading blocs.
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Those blocs have delivered her resounding victories in past years; the last time she ran, in 2012, she won nearly 7.3 million votes, clinching more than 62 percent of the vote.
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SAO PAULO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Brazil could sell between 30 percent and 40 percent of the oil blocs on offer at the nation's 14th oil round, an official said on Wednesday.
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Donald J. Trump has driven large blocs of voters — women, educated white voters and growing numbers of minorities — away from the Republican Party, but his appeal among military veterans is strong.
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In many ways, the campaign does traffic in more conventional identity narratives — the focus is just on other people's identities: those of his campaign staffers and those of potential voting blocs.
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Israel is hoping that in any final agreement with the Palestinians it will be able to keep large settlement blocs including in the Jordan Valley, both for security and agricultural purposes.
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"Iowa is one of the few places where Trump has been able make inroads among voting blocs that generally support Clinton," said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute.
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Turnout among black voters fell seven points in Florida, and turnout among Hispanic voters there, who make up critical voting blocs stretching from Miami-Dade County to Orlando, fell eight points.
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"One of the key voting blocs Democrats will need to win the House and hold the line in the Senate is seniors," Doug Thornell, a veteran Democratic strategist, told The Hill.
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Disagreements between France's finance ministry and the telecoms authority over the spectrum to be auctioned and the minimum price for the blocs had caused concerns that the process could be delayed.
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Two blocs of political parties, one backed by Iran and the other populist and anti-Iranian, are closely involved in backroom deals to agree on a candidate before Salih presents them.
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The people in the two big power blocs are not good at winning the war against each other, but they are really good at intimidating the moderates on their own side.
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Disagreements between France's finance ministry and the telecoms authority over the spectrum to be auctioned and the minimum price for the blocs had caused concerns that the process could be delayed.
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Leadership and members of the House Appropriations Committee had already begun to counter him, grouping amendments into blocs that effectively allowed for one roll call vote to apply to multiple amendments.
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Speaking to reporters in Brasilia, Marinho said the government is in constant dialog with political blocs in Congress, and remained confident that the government's proposals are the best ones on the table.
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Aside from internal differences in the conservative camp, especially on migrant policy, the three blocs that would form the Jamaica coalition are at odds on energy and climate policy, tax and Europe.
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LIBREVILLE, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Gabon's state oil firm has agreed its first oil production contract and says it hopes to soon generate enough revenue to compete with international firms for offshore blocs.
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" In his ability to deliver blocs of votes, cut deals with political enemies and promote the interests of black Georgians, Mr. Lesher wrote, Mr. Johnson was "without peer in Southern black politics.
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The most divisive issues for the two blocs concern taxes, pensions, migration and healthcare but both parties are aware that a grand coalition is one of the last options on the table.
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Among the British car industry's concerns is the requirement of many free-trade deals between countries and blocs for more than 50 percent of components in a car to be made locally.
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It includes the blocs of Vice President Ayad Allawi and Shi'ite Muslim cleric Ammar al-Hakim, as well as several Sunni Muslim lawmakers and ones representing Turkmen, Yazidi, Mandaean and Christian minorities.
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The two rival parties teamed up last year to form a coalition government, and the League has suggested that the two should combine in Strasbourg to leverage the strength of eurosceptic blocs.
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But here in Orangeburg -- home to two of the state's 10 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) -- the on-campus collision of those blocs appears to be bucking, er, "Berning" the trend.
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For one thing, procedures for both leasing and permitting give environmental groups an avenue to litigate development efforts, with targets for lawsuits including the environmental analysis underpinning the sale of drilling blocs.
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Trade gains from other regional blocs in the continent are smaller: around 110% in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and 80% in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA).
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O'Rourke, who has garnered national headlines for firing up Texas's liberal voting blocs and making the race in the Lone Star State significantly more competitive than expected, has found success among independents.
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The ASEAN meeting's host, Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, said the group aims to reach a basic agreement on plans for what may become one of the world's biggest trade blocs.
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The rise of the far-right Sweden Democrats, shunned by both center-right and center-left, left the big mainstream blocs neck-and-neck, and short of a majority, in Sunday's election.
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Clinton has broad support from the same blocs of voters who twice elected Mr. Obama, they are not as enthusiastic about her candidacy and will need prodding to visit the voting booth.
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However, just because Democratic advances with the Jewish vote were not enough to blunt Trump's huge gains with other voting blocs, does not mean Jews should be easily disregarded as electorally unimportant.
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Still, Pelosi is also quick to acknowledge that many blue-collar male voters will side with the Republicans, regardless of the Democrats' agenda — or how it would affect certain blocs of voters.
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Democrats' health care message is resonating with critically important blocs of midterm voters, according to the latest Axios/SurveyMonkey polling on how five key voter groups view the issues in the election.
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The brawl involved fighting between two blocs of ultra fans — Zagreb's Bad Blue Boys and Belgrade's Delije — and many Croatians believed the Yugoslav police were beating only those who supported Dinamo Zagreb.
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The documentary is airing in four-hour blocs over the next five Tuesdays, although the order of the shorts doesn't appear to have any real impact; dip in or out as desired.
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Haitians are undeniably wielding influence in local and county politics, including in North Miami, a city with about 60,000 residents where people of Haitian ancestry form one of the largest voting blocs.
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Mexico, Canada and the United States form one of the world's biggest trading blocs, and trade disruptions among them could adversely affect farm, automotive, energy and other sectors in all three countries.
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The left has to stitch together a much broader and more diverse coalition than the right to win — more a collection of interest groups, discrete voting blocs, than a coherent ideological movement.
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The lower requirements would apply to concessions to be auctioned in September in the 14th round of exploratory oil and gas blocs and the 3rd subsalt round scheduled for November, he said.
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BRASILIA, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Brazil has set signing fees totaling 36.6 billion reais ($8.72 billion) for a new auction of the Sepia and Atapu presalt blocs that had no takers on Nov.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Shell has sold 40 percent of its participation in two offshore oil exploration contracts in Colombia to Noble Energy, which will also operate the blocs, the government said on Tuesday.
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Seven countries or blocs, including the United States and the European Union, called last month for urgent action to address global steel overcapacity, but have failed to agree common measures with China.
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Two other blocs that partial results indicate came in second and third — Hadi al-Ameri's Fatah and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's Nasr — appear to have won 45 and 39 seats, respectively.
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If confirmed, Judge Gorsuch would restore the 5-to-4 split between liberals and conservatives on the court, handing Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, 23, who votes with both blocs, the swing vote.
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Still, the two blocs of justices did appear to agree that a central flaw in the ban on disparagement was that it took sides or, in legal language, was not viewpoint neutral.
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Both of the major, multiparty political alliances fell well short of an outright majority in the Parliament in the September elections, and forming a government 133 days later required splitting both blocs.
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Perhaps most notably, she has to figure out how to prevail in a year when major blocs of both parties are attracted to outsider candidates like Trump --and are weary of political dynasties.
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Support for the coalition was 49 percent, a Newspoll found on Monday, on a two-party preferred basis where votes for minor parties are redistributed to the two main blocs according to preferences.
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The centre-left and centre-right blocs are roughly equally sized in parliament where the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats - a party with roots in the white-supremacist fringe - hold the balance of power.
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Regional agreements can be useful if done right, but they threaten to segregate the world into overlapping trading blocs with different rules in areas like labor rights, environmental protection and access to medicines.
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In part because of the body's effectiveness, countries with dubious rights records have sought seats on the council, often benefitting from an unwillingness of regional blocs to encourage/permit competition for available seats.
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It was also meant to avoid the resurgence of anything like Britain's exclusionary policy of "Imperial preference", which had been used to carve out trade blocs in a way that kept America out.
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Germany, whose automotive industry has most to lose from U.S. tariffs on car imports from the EU, is the biggest winner from the easing trade tensions between the two trading blocs, Sentix said.
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NAIROBI, May 29 (Reuters) - Tullow Oil has awarded an engineering design contract for oil production in its northern Kenyan blocs to Australia's Worley Parsons, a Kenyan petroleum ministry official told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Because the rates differ between states, making stuff in one and selling it in another is often harder within India than it is in trade blocs such as NAFTA or the European Union.
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De Bustamante also said that during an EU-ASEAN ministerial meeting in Brussels last week the two blocs decided to form a new joint working group to address issues related to palm oil.
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However, Menendez has opened up large leads over Hugin in key Democratic voting blocs, beating his opponent by double digits among women, non-white residents, and likely voters under 2628 years of age.
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It certainly doesn't offer a clear guidebook on how local leaders can start to educate their neighbors and build the kinds of voter blocs required to get local, democratic change on these issues.
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Speaking to VICE News in an office in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, Uthman said the operations room is split into three rebel blocs, each responsible for a section of northern Aleppo province.
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But even as they love to throw shade in each others' directions, all of these blocs of the alt-right interact on a subterranean level that lends mutual support to their general cause.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Neither of Sweden's main political blocs is likely to win a majority in an election on Sunday, giving the far-right Sweden Democrats a key role in shaping the next government.
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It deforms our political relationship to one another, creating a false picture of a country carved up into bright red and blue blocs, when in fact we are purple from coast to coast.
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Nonetheless, in a Washington Post op-ed published in 2015, Frey pointed out that Democrats cannot make the politics of fear go away simply by courting the young-adult and minority voting blocs.
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We at C.I.S. advocate the annexation of certain settlement blocs in the West Bank and Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, but only in the context of a negotiated "ultimate deal" with the Palestinians.
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Nine parties and two blocs are taking part in the election, and opinion polls suggested that the My Step Alliance, which includes Mr. Pashinyan's Civil Contract Party, would easily win a parliamentary majority.
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At the same time, the strategy is a tacit acknowledgement that Sanders will have to broaden his appeal to more reliable voting blocs if he hopes to rebound from his Super Tuesday defeats.
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"During the Cold War we weren't dealing with an interdependent global economy but essentially two major blocs that were more or less self-dependent in terms of their economic well-being," Lemahieu said.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo launched his re-election campaign on Friday, looking to win over big blocs of millennial and Muslim voters as Southeast Asia's biggest economy sails into choppy waters.
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While most of the 6,000 settler homes he has promised are in existing blocs, many are not and may have to be scrapped if he wants to adhere to the White House line.
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Evans said Canada could seek out stronger trade partners such as India and Asian countries that are part of regional trade blocs such as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Three weeks later, on July 5th, Modi appointed three new ministers from Uttar Pradesh to his cabinet, a move generally interpreted as an appeal to caste-based voting blocs in next year's elections.
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Like Macron, they were careful to distinguish between regular demonstrators and the casseurs (hooligans) and black blocs (far-left extremists) who, they say, have hijacked the movement and caused much of the violence.
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The two blocs have mainly been at odds over welfare spending, as changing demographics put pressure on a cradle-to-grave welfare system that includes universal healthcare, education and services for the elderly.
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It will be phased in over 15 years, at the end of which it will have eliminated tariffs on over 90% of goods traded between the blocs, with tariff-free quotas for the remainder.
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In a move that could unravel one of the world's biggest trading blocs, Trump is considering issuing an executive order to pull the United States from NAFTA, a senior administration official said on Wednesday.
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The two superpowers appeared to be heading towards a new cold war in which the globalised economy of the 250.0s and 123s would be sundered into separate and competing economic, diplomatic and military blocs.
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But the political advantages were not hard to spot: black Americans, the young and women are all voter blocs that must turn out in large numbers if the Clinton-Kaine ticket is to win.
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While centre-right and centre-left blocs lost their shared majority, surges by the Greens and liberals meant parties committed to strengthening the union held on to two-thirds of seats, official projections showed.
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Centre-right and centre-left blocs lost their shared majority, but surges by the Greens and liberals meant parties committed to strengthening the union held on to two thirds of seats, official projections showed.
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Talks to overhaul the North American Free Trade Agreement resume this weekend in Mexico, the second round after U.S. President Donald Trump's renewed threats to withdraw from one of the world's biggest trade blocs.
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Iraq's Kurds are laying claim to additional territory inside Nineveh province on the sidelines of the Mosul offensive and the country's parliament continues to be dominated by powerful political blocs capable of gridlocking government.
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As totalitarian-minded ideological blocs congeal on both the left and right, the idea of an apocalypse caused by group-thinking zombies out for fresh blood becomes ever more terrifying with each passing day.
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And they worry that his provocative statements -- the latest over the Mexican heritage of a federal judge overseeing a Trump University lawsuit -- will undermine the GOP with key voting blocs critical in swing states.
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Officials from the two blocs met in September in what was to be a final push for a deal but talks broke down and the meeting ended without setting a date for further negotiations.
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"The opposition going in two blocs, a centrist one and a leftist one, could spur a greater mobilization of leftist voters, and that could lead to more seats for the democratic opposition," Kwiatkowska said.
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During the 1997-'20173 TV season (the last season when Seinfeld was on the air), NBC's fall schedule featured 18 multi-camera comedies, with full two-hour blocs on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
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The EPP is the largest of eight blocs in the chamber but holds only 215, or 29 percent, of the 751 seats, meaning it needs support from other parties to get its candidate elected.
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Leaders of the evangelical community, who make up one of Trump's crucial voting blocs, sent a letter to the president saying they were "troubled" by the ban and calling for refugee resettlement to resume.
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Von der Leyen and the conservative leader of the development ministry objected in writing to Scholz's longer-term budget plans, saying they violate the coalition pact signed by the two political blocs in February.
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Support for Merkel's CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the CSU, fell 63 points to 33 percent - cutting the gap between the two blocs to its narrowest in records compiled by poll tracker wahlrecht.
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Abadi on March 11 asked political blocs in parliament and "influential social figures" to nominate technocrats, but his room for maneuver appears limited by pressure from political factions not to erode their powerful influence.
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In that view, there are two main trading blocs, the trans-Atlantic one and the trans-Pacific one, with Europe in the first, Asia in the second and America the focal point of each.
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By November 2020, young people between the ages of 18-85033 will make up 37 percent —over one-third — of the electorate, making us one of the most significant voting blocs in the country.
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While centre-right and centre-left blocs lost their shared majority, surges by the Greens and liberals meant parties committed to strengthening the union held on to two-thirds of seats, official projections showed.
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That 1975 agreement was reached by the United States, Canada, and almost every European country to solidify the post-World War II order in Europe and reduce tensions between the Western and Soviet blocs.
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That finding comports with other surveys that show Trump performing poorly with some of the key voting blocs that populate the nation's suburbs, headlined by his troubles with white women and white college graduates.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - China's CNOOC and Spain's Repsol fetched oil blocs in the Espírito Santo basin off the coast of Brazil in a oil round on Monday, oil regulator ANP said.
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Sadr cannot be prime minister himself since he did not run in the election, but has been meeting the leaders of other blocs and setting conditions on his support for candidates for prime minister.
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The Syrian government and its allies had managed overnight to split the enclave, eastern Ghouta, into three blocs, each surrounded and besieged, leaving Mr. Habaq suddenly separated from his family, he said by phone.
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The brighter the line, the stronger the connection: You'll notice that countries tend to cluster in little cliques (where a lot of blue lines overlap), confirming the theory that certain countries vote in blocs.
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"As the two blocs faltered and the decades-long confrontation began to break down, George H.W. Bush seized the courageous chance to end the Cold War," Germany's foreign minister, Heiko Maas, wrote on Twitter.
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Three years later, virtually nothing has been done to hold the schools to legal standards, as politicians have ducked their responsibility rather than challenge leaders of one of the city's most powerful voting blocs.
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As a young, impeccably credentialed Mexican-American — by far the largest of the Latino voting blocs — Justice Cuéllar would have been someone to whom the Democrats' core constituencies would have developed an emotional attachment.
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WASHINGTON — After Democrats delivered a resounding counterpunch to President Trump at the polls, one of his most reliable voting blocs — social conservatives — now faces the repercussions of its uncompromising support for Mr. Trump's agenda.
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Describing the atrocities committed by the communists, she lamented the plight of her country, the fate of all Vietnamese who found themselves pawns in the power play between the communist and anti-communist blocs.
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"The margin has narrowed since her post-convention bounce, but Clinton is holding onto an underlying advantage over Trump among key voting blocs," said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute.
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While the right may press for more settlement construction, the Trump administration could endorse keeping any new housing within established blocs, said Robert Satloff, executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
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Neither the companies nor the national hydrocarbons agency (ANH) shared financial details of the deal for Noble's involvement in the Caribbean COL-3 and GUA OFF-3 blocs, which cover more than 880,000 hectares.
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Together, the 19903 ethnic composition of a region and the level of support for Brexit in 2016 predict over 40 percent of the variation in 2010-19 shifting between the left and right blocs.
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Should Israel take any unilateral step toward annexation, such as applying sovereignty to communities beyond the Green Line or annexing settlement blocs, we fear there will be no way to control what comes next.
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But a new, informal subcaucus is emerging, one that could look a lot more like the Freedom Caucus — at least as far as powerful voting blocs go — formed with new progressive members like Reps.
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The prospect that the major voting blocs in the Democratic Party will splinter among the top-tier candidates adds to the possibility of a race that remains wide open much longer than earlier contests.
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"A good quarter century after the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the two blocs, many people have the feeling that the world has gone off the rails," Ms. Merkel said.
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But Bernie didn't win the nomination, and now the Democratic party are at risk of losing one of the largest voting blocs – independents and millennials – because they nominated the queen of the Beltway prom.
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According to pollsters and political science professors, Sanders appears to have combined elements of both Obama and Clinton's 2008 voting blocs — he's building something new and untested as an electoral force in American politics.
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Despite that, and the support of the most senior Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, it remains unclear whether Mr. Abadi's agenda will be able to win the help of any other political blocs.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament voted on Tuesday to approve three out of five ministers put forward by Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, a step toward ending weeks of deadlock between the two largest parliamentary blocs.
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For every Trump vote that Bernie Sanders would have won, his positions could have cost Democrats support from other voter blocs, suggests Representative Steve Israel, a centrist from Long Island who is retiring this year.
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The announcement comes as Mercosur has been seeking to finalize trade deals with other blocs and countries, including the European Union, Canada and South Korea, after pro-business governments took office in Argentina and Brazil.
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Instead, they focus most on turning out base supporters they know will be reliable votes for their side (think environmentalists or gun owners), and shy away from turning out voter blocs that might vote unpredictably.
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Mr. Trump's success with evangelicals, who constitute the largest Republican blocs in six Southern states voting on Tuesday, poses a mortal threat to Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, whose campaign is built on these voters.
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If the agreement comes to fruition it would reportedly create one of the world's largest trading blocs, accounting for roughly 45 percent of the world's population and nearly a third of global gross domestic product.
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A presumptive presidential nominee whose standing with key voting blocs -- and in key battleground states -- is in decline and who has failed to deliver on frequent promises to follow a somewhat more traditional campaign course.
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Off-year elections are always low-turnout affairs, especially among Democrats' key voting blocs, such as young and non-white voters; Democrats got flashbacks to 2016, when Democrats uninspired by their presidential candidate stayed home.
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While centre-right and centre-left blocs are losing their shared majority, surges in the Greens and liberals meant parties committed to strengthening the union held on to two-thirds of seats, official projections showed.
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Sabine Weyand, the European Commission's new Director General of Trade, said it was important to build trust by moving forward in areas where the two economic blocs agreed, rather than focus solely on contentious issues.
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Given her unique profile and progressive policy platform, both women and African American voters — which are seen as powerhouse blocs within the Democratic party — could be key targets as the primary season begins to unfold.
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Parliament was meant to pass the budget before the start of the 2018 financial year in January but all three main blocs, Shi'ite Arabs, Sunni Arabs, and Kurds, had serious issues with the government's proposal.
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Instead, the parties will try to thrash out a new election law and it is certain that the main centre-right and centre-left blocs will want a system that does not favour 5-Star.
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This tale of two campaigns came as opinion polls showed Mr Trump continuing to shed support among college-educated whites, married women and other voter blocs that have reliably skewed Republican in successive presidential elections.
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Nelson, with his reputation as an old-school senator, could also help boost Gillum by helping fuel turnout among moderate Democrats and independents – voting blocs that Gillum will need if he hopes to beat Rep.
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Other apartments were supposed to go to low-income tenants but had been doled out by past administrations in a political spoils system that rewarded voting blocs of city workers, union members or just cronies.
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Mothers, however, are presented as "soccer mom" voting blocs (or alternately, "hockey moms" or "security moms") -- not as movers and shakers running for office, staffing winning campaigns and even taking to the streets in protest.
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These alliances are forged not for the control of traditional borders, but rather to enforce the seamless integration of trade blocs like the TTIP, all to gain control over critical resources, global trade, and finance.
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The six-episode mini-series on NatGeo (which airs in two-episode blocs Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) is based on the 1994 best seller by Richard Preston about the emergence of Ebola and other viruses.
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Trump is considering issuing an executive order to pull the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement, an administration official says, a move that could unravel one of the world's biggest trading blocs.
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For Israel, it could include limiting settlement construction to current blocs without taking new land, recommitting to a two-state solution and redesignating a small part of the West Bank to give Palestinians more control.
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The Democratic fixation on upscale white suburbs also distorts policies and diverts resources that could generate higher turnout among nonwhite voting blocs that are crucial to the party's fortunes and too often taken for granted.
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"One of these two bigger blocs will have to blink and say we are prepared to support a person that we said 'no way' to," said Torbjorn Larsson, a political-science professor at Stockholm University.
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A great number of representatives in Parliament belong to one of the parties or electoral blocs that were created by the regime's security and intelligence agencies about three years ago in preparation for parliamentary elections.
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Nahum Barnea, a political analyst in Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, expected "an American green light" for Israel to annex West Bank settlement blocs and the Jordan Valley, which forms the border with Jordan to the east.
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The key blocs of senators in both parties you need to watch, per John Bresnahan and Burgess Everett, are: - The Three Amigos, Part Deux- Republican Institutionalists- Trump Hardliners- Democratic Moderates- Trump Is Guilty Already Democrats
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi President Barham Salih said on Thursday that Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi would only resign in response to mass protests if parliamentary blocs agree on his replacement to avoid a constitutional vacuum.
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Former vice president Joe Biden's support in the Democratic presidential nominating contest has long been a function of his robust backing from two particular voting blocs: black Democrats and Democrats who self-identify as moderate.
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There is widespread agreement among Shiite political blocs, with whom Mr. Sadr would have to ally to form a government, to continue a program backed by international troops to train and equip Iraqi security forces.
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The majority of votes will be cast in Clark County, where Democratic caucus-goers are more likely to be Latino or black — two voting blocs with which Buttigieg has struggled to gain traction so far.
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When he visited the Parliament in February, Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, did not have lunch with the heads of the political blocs — to avoid encountering Ms. Le Pen, officials speculated at the time.
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Public Health The big changes in the new Senate bill — including dropping a tax cut for the rich and rolling back insurance regulation — were meant to influence blocs of senators and to address policy concerns.
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The finance industry want to maintain a close relationship with the EU but it will not enjoy the same level of access as under the blocs single market, which includes a so-called passporting regime.
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The EUs demands will focus on environmental and labor standards, as well as state aid rules to ensure Britain would not be able to offer products on the blocs single market at unfairly low prices.
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The best way to think about Israeli politics is in terms of two major ideological blocs, defined principally (but not exclusively) by stances on the Palestinians, minority rights, and the relationship between synagogue and state.
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Furthermore, CPC will only become an effective organizing body if some of its members form voting blocs, like dozens of members of the Freedom Caucus did when the GOP had a majority in the House.
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Scholz's budget has come under unusual attack from Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen and Development Minister Gerd Mueller, who wrote on Wednesday that it violated a coalition deal signed by the political blocs in February.
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But besides the usual race for market share, Macron's advisors say he will also defend a common European Union line for freer trade between the blocs, in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump's protectionist rhetoric.
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Minority communities have been key voting blocs for the Clinton campaign, helping her rack up wins over Bernie Sanders, the U.S. senator from Vermont who is her main rival for the Democratic nomination to the Nov.
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The body consists of 47 members, about a third of them elected every year for a term of three years, renewable by election for one extra term, with five regional blocs each proposing members for election.
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At a time when tensions are flaring up between Israel and Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group, investors will probably wait for the row to be solved before investing millions of dollars in exploring the contentious blocs.
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The blue hats turned on protesters in several incidents after Sadr entered a deal with Iran-backed political blocs last week to bring in new Prime Miniser-designate Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi - a move the protesters reject.
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Unionists also lost their majority at the last elections to the devolved assembly in 2017, however, and the Alliance were the biggest gainers at local council elections this month, closing the gap on the main blocs.
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The two blocs began negotiations in 2000, intensifying efforts to reach an accord after Donald Trump's presidential victory prompted the European Union to freeze talks with the United States and look for other global trading allies.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Nationalist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and Iranian-backed militia chief Hadi al-Amiri, who won first and second place respectively in Iraq's May parliamentary election, announced on Tuesday an alliance between their political blocs.
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A fractious parliament reassembling its power blocs to take some account of all this will make it harder for Mr Weber—whose EPP will probably come first again—to stake his claim to the commission presidency.
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Eight years after winning their first seats in parliament, the Sweden Democrats have upset a political order once defined by right- and left-wing blocs, and shaken the country's idea of itself as a progressive society.
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"Even though the heads of political blocs wanted to reach a backroom deal rather than leave it up to a vote, they couldn't control their own MPs," said Renad Mansour, a research fellow at Chatham House.
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Al-Sadr&aposs followers emerged with the most seats in Iraq&aposs May 12 parliament elections but would have to form a coalition government with other blocs in a process that could drag on for months.
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Rival blocs in parliament could not agree on a new president between 2014-16 and repeatedly decided to delay elections, partly because of disagreement over moving from a winner-takes-all system to a proportional one.
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He has consolidated two crucial blocs of the state's GOP coalition -- evangelical and tea party voters, and victory in Iowa would leave the well-financed Cruz strongly positioned for the Southern state delegate harvest to come.
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RELATED: Cruz: Trump 'could be unstoppable' if he wins Iowa Part of the reason why Cruz has not emphasized his Hispanic heritage is that he fundamentally disagrees with the need to woo typically liberal voting blocs.
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The U.N. Security Council North Korea sanctions committee has been meeting with regional blocs at the United Nations to push for enforcement of existing sanctions and assist countries with questions on how to implement the measures.
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"This forum will allow candidates to speak directly to one of the largest Democratic voting blocs — and most reliably Democratic — in the country ahead of a contentious primary," She the People founder Aimee Allison told NBC.
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Intensifying disagreements between the rival Islah and Bina blocs, led by populist Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and Iran-backed militia leader Hadi al-Amiri, have prevented the formation of a full government of 22 ministers.
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That should mean Democrats can expect much greater intensity among their base — a factor that could be vital since Democratic-leaning voting blocs tend to turn out less reliably in midterm elections than in presidential contests.
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That has led to calls on social media by yellow vest protesters and so-called black blocs hooligans to join the march on Saturday and turn it into a protest against police brutality and cover-ups.
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But depending on the formation of parliament — normally, a complex 90-day process requiring negotiations and compromises among political blocs — he could play a dominant role in choosing who does, and that could threaten Iran's interests.
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Accordingly, the Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem and the "settlement blocs" — suburban communities built just across the Green Line, which include some 80 percent of the total settler population — will remain in Israel no matter what.
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" He is worried that China and the United States will separate into two distinct blocs, increasingly mistrustful and prone to conflict: "It can happen, as we've seen in Europe, in ways that unleash generations of warfare.
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Israeli officials pointed to past commitments by the George W. Bush administration, including a letter Bush sent to then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon shifting the U.S. position on so-called natural growth of existing settlement blocs.
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"The prime minister had previously agreed to submit his resignation, if the blocs agree on an acceptable replacement in order to adhere to constitutional and legal frameworks," President Barham Salih said in a live televised address.
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Doing either would be a betrayal to the rural communities that have become one of the chief voting blocs the GOP depends on and would put the health and safety of millions of Americans at risk.
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That would raise the two blocs' combined total to 122 seats from 80 and their share to 17.3 percent from 10.6 percent as the total number of seats falls to 705 from 751 with Britain's withdrawal.
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" Netanyahu went on to say, "I will extend sovereignty but I don't distinguish between the settlement blocs and the isolated ones, because each settlement is Israeli and I will not hand it over to Palestinian sovereignty.
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Buttigieg, who would be the first openly gay U.S. president if elected, still faces questions about what opinion polls show is his weakness with black voters, one of the most loyal and vital Democratic voting blocs.
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Buttigieg, who would be the first openly gay U.S. president if elected, still faces questions about what polls show is his weakness with African-American voters, one of the most loyal and vital Democratic voting blocs.
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Demings and Crow were surprise additions, but both have relevant experience to bring to a Senate trial, as well as representing voter blocs within the Democratic electorate that are crucial to maintaining control of the House.
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It has also paralyzed voters, racking them with indecision as they try to identify a candidate who can prevail across a range of voting blocs, including minority communities as well as suburban and working-class voters.
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Despite his appeal among white voters in the early contest states of Iowa and New Hampshire, he has had trouble connecting with Americans of color, including black and Latino voters, which are both key voting blocs.
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Speaking at the end of talks on Saturday, conservative politician Michael Grosse-Broemer said the two blocs intended to stick to the timeframe but issues like labor policy, healthcare and rents still needed to be resolved.
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Big deal if this translates to the ballot box: NBC/WSJ poll finds higher-than-average enthusiasm among Latinos, black voters and women <— Dem-leaning blocs who typically see major drop-offs in midterm elections. pic.twitter.
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International buyers are key to demand in central London and have snapped up everything from individual apartments to entire blocs and commercial properties, irking some locals who have been pushed further out in search of cheaper homes.
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Both of the main blocs have said they will not work with the Sweden Democrats, a party with roots in fascism and neo-Nazism, as part of a tactic to isolate the group and its populist politics.
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The euro struggled to hold on to $1.12 on Monday as investor relief at limited gains for euroskeptic parties in European parliamentary elections was offset by declines in the share of seats held by the biggest blocs.
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In fact, his reliance on racism to build his voter blocs, and his steadfast refusal to acknowledge the dangerous consequences of spreading ideologies of hate, stand out as among the only elements of continuity in his campaign.
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President Macron said the selection process had been "blocked" by "initial agreements" among the various political blocs, but that any previous handshake deals that may have existed around candidates for Europe's top jobs were no longer valid.
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A government spokesman said center-right Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, a Social Democrat, had agreed Berlin would not decide on the Turkish request before both party blocs had sealed a new coalition deal.
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In a state where the Democratic Party is heavily dependent on nonwhite voters, a candidate that connects strongly with a minority bloc can win in a crowded field that spreads its energy across all blocs more evenly.
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If the turnout in the Arab community would have been the same as in previous elections, the right-wing and center-left blocs would be tied and Netanyahu would not be able to form a coalition. 5.
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Yet Heck has come under attack from his Democratic opponent, Catherine Cortez Masto, for waiting until the video to drop his Trump endorsement, even though the Republican candidate has offended other voting blocs, including Hispanics, for months.
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Although there is little reliable polling of black and Latino women, two groups that will help decide the next contests in South Carolina and Nevada, Clinton is dominant among both men and women in those voting blocs.
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On a two-party preferred basis - where votes for minor parties are redistributed to the two main blocs - the government trails Labor by a margin of 52-48, a Newspoll by The Australian newspaper on Monday showed.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Norway's Statoil sees changes to Brazil's oil industry laws, including the end of mandatory participation by Petrobras in all subsalt blocs, as key for attracting foreign investment, Chief Executive Officer Eldar Saetre said on Thursday.
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A government spokesman said centre-right Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, a Social Democrat, had agreed Berlin would not decide on the Turkish request before both party blocs had sealed a new coalition deal.
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The two blocs are at odds on issues from healthcare and immigration to Europe and pensions and, if no deal is done, Merkel's future as chancellor would be thrown into doubt with new elections a distinct prospect.
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BRASILIA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Brazil is overlooking potentially dire climate change consequences by moving ahead with its biggest auction ever of oil exploration blocs that could release millions of tonnes of carbon emissions, according to environmental activists.
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Oil prices have come under pressure this month as a trade dispute between the United States and China, as well as other major economic blocs, has raised the possibility of slower economic growth and weaker energy demand.
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After the list of technocrats was announced on March 31, Shiite political blocs, which dominate the government and fear the loss of patronage and influence, pushed back and forced Mr. Abadi to include more of their allies.
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BAGHDAD, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Iraqi President Barham Salih said on Thursday that Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi would only resign in response to mass protests if parliamentary blocs agree on his replacement to avoid a constitutional vacuum.
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Rivalry between the two blocs that emerged strongest from the election - an Iran-backed alliance and a populist bloc led by former firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr - could prove particularly difficult for the prime minister to manage.
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Evangelical voters have helped send more than 60 lawmakers to the 513-member lower house of Congress, doubling their numbers since 2010 and making them one of the most disciplined blocs in an unruly and divided legislature.
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"The existing free, open and rules-based multilateral system which has underpinned ASEAN's growth and stability has come under stress," he said, adding that it was unclear if the international order would break up into rival blocs.
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Most of the homes to be immediately marketed are for what Israel calls "settlement blocs," areas close to the Green Line that Israel and the Palestinian Authority expect will remain in Israel in a final peace deal.
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While he was seeking to woo dominant congressional blocs by championing those initiatives, analysts said, Mr. Temer in recent days held a marathon of meetings with individual lawmakers who sought commitments of federal money for their districts.
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So states can end up with congressional districts that look like North Carolina's, where big and small chunks of land are pulled together into an awkward shape — resembling rivers and toy puzzle pieces more than voting blocs.
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In the end, the exit poll overestimates Republican support among most demographic groups, including well-educated white voters, and it overestimates the number of voters from Democratic-leaning voting blocs, like young, nonwhite and well-educated voters.
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While a strong majority of Democrats favor impeaching the president, the same cannot be said for independents or swing state voters, two critical blocs that both parties will be actively working to win over for the election.
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Luis Galarreta, an opposition lawmaker who is the current president of Congress, told a press conference on Wednesday that all of the country's legislative blocs had agreed to accept Kuczynski's resignation in a plenary session on Thursday.
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Delays in Senate confirmation of veteran trade lawyer Robert Lighthizer more than 100 days after his nomination have set back Trump's trade agenda, including the start of talks about revamping one of the world's biggest trading blocs.
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With the two biggest political blocs expected to lose their combined majority, he and other far-right leaders hope to form an opposition, eurosceptic alliance with enough seats in the assembly to block or hold up legislation.
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It takes five votes to accomplish most things at the Supreme Court, and until Saturday, that meant Justice Anthony M. Kennedy was in control when the court's four-member liberal and conservative blocs lined up against each other.
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Even if he only annexed a handful of settlement blocs near the border that would likely go to Israel in any peace deal, it would still dash the already slim hopes of an agreement in the foreseeable future.
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QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador has received bids from six oil companies for seven little-explored oil blocs with potentially high reserves, but investment in the area may be less than had been expected, the energy minister said on Tuesday.
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One of the EU's powerful national leaders — France's president, Emmanuel Macron — has been seeking to assert authority over the parliament by indicating he won't be bound by a system of preferred candidates put forward by its political blocs.
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Leaders of the Pacific Alliance and Mercosur trading blocs met in the Mexican resort city of Puerto Vallarta, seeking to present a united front against potential disruptions stemming from Trump's threats to slap new tariffs on major markets.
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By successfully occupying the center ground - even if critics see him as more on the right than the left - Macron has engineered the near-collapse of the Socialists and Republicains, shattering the traditional center-left/center-right blocs.
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But though Cruz won Iowa and Rubio appears to have the kind of crossover appeal that could unite several blocs of the Republican Party, it was still unclear where exactly the two Cuban-American senators can stop Trump.
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Next week's vote by lawmakers aims to end the stalemate since an election in September that left the center-left and center-right blocs evenly sized, and with the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats holding the balance of power.
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Von der Leyen's nomination by EU leaders has infuriated the Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's coalition partners, who feel aggrieved that the leaders ignored the lead candidates from the main parliamentary blocs in their horse-trading over top posts.
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Already concerned about Saudi involvement in the war in Yemen, the two political blocs agreed after the October killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Riyadh's diplomatic mission in Istanbul to ban future arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
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Unlike the typical campaign effort, which involves trying to win over states or congressional districts or large blocs of voters, the convention involves a relatively tiny universe of people who will decide the candidates' fate — 2,472 in all.
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For several months, some have raised doubts (this writer included) about Sanders's ability to break through a Clinton Machine "firewall" (that's the latest buzzword) in Nevada and South Carolina, due to heavy blocs of black and Latino voters.
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The President's big rally Saturday night was a reminder that his midterm role is somewhat unresolved, too; some Republicans will be thrilled to have a presidential visit while others worry he is toxic with some key voting blocs.
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It may be political suicide to risk alienating sources of political contributions, blocs of union voters and entrenched special interests, but here's what needs to be done: Fixing public education in the U.S. is a very complex problem.
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We will get a wider range of products — if companies don't have to market a single brand to everyone on TV, they can create a variety of items aimed at blocs of consumers who were previously left behind.
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In one of several moments when the candidates tried to appeal to their own distinct voting blocs, Mr. Pence attempted to drive a wedge between the Democrats' African-American base and up-for-grabs white voters, targeting Mrs.
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While the project may be initiated by China, the opportunities and outcomes will benefit the world, said Xi. "China has no geopolitical calculations, seeks no exclusionary blocs and imposes no business deals on others," the Chinese president added.
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Lee's alliance with tech firms put him at odds with large blocs of liberal voters in the famously left-leaning city, where Lee faced savage criticism over the cost of housing and an influx of white, wealthy residents.
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BAGHDAD, June 12 (Reuters) - Nationalist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and Iranian-backed militia chief Hadi al-Amiri, who won first and second place respectively in Iraq's May parliamentary election, announced on Tuesday an alliance between their political blocs.
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Though relatively small in population numbers (but not insignificant in turnout), LGBTQ people have become one of the most reliable Democratic voting blocs, and reliable electoral turnout helps queer people build real political power over the long term.
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As a tight battle for control of Congress enters its closing weeks, Democrats have found that in politically competitive states, particularly ones that Mr. Trump carried in 2016, the attacks can easily turn crucial voting blocs against Democrats.
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As Fusion reported earlier this year, there is nothing inherently liberal about younger voting blocs, and any success of Trump's message in the US would suggest the country is headed in a similar direction to its European allies.
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Sovereignty proponents insist that annexation of settlement blocs like Maale Adumim or Gush Etzion would actually meet little international or Arab resistance because of the expectation that those areas would remain in Israel under a two-state outcome.
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Pointedly absent from Mr. Sadr's list of potential partners: pro-Iranian blocs, as he has insistently distanced himself from his former patrons in Iran, whose meddling he has come to see as a destabilizing force in Iraq's politics.
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They have conducted focus groups in suburban areas of the Midwest, and are studying key voting blocs in California and New York, two states that could in theory furnish half the seats they need to take the House.
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Support has grown, however, cutting across several established negotiating blocs at the climate talks, including the Like Minded Developing Countries bloc of about a dozen nations, the Least Developed Country bloc of about 50 nations, and African States.
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What's less obvious, and what Mr. Bacon attempts to untangle in this article, is how "those two groups make up their minds about the president" and which blocs within the Republican Party are critical to the president's support.
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If the Arab and centrist blocs both hold their voting share - and certainly if they increase - that would make it harder for Netanyahu to get the extra seats he needs in the country's finely-balanced political set-up.
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Actually, worse than nothing, because Bibi Netanyahu's government has steadily implanted more settlers deep inside Palestinian-populated areas of the West Bank — now 224,000 — beyond the settlement blocs that Israel might keep in any two-state peace deal.
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Across Europe, the old Socialist blocs have fractured into smaller parties, partly because their voting bases have changed but also because rampant inequality and the decline of the middle class have created fertile ground for more extreme parties.
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Mr. Netanyahu has said in the past that he would not evacuate Beit El under any agreement with the Palestinians, even though it lies outside the major settlement blocs that Israeli leaders have more generally insisted on keeping.
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The meetings are required ahead of sending lawmakers a notification letter that will start the process for renegotiating NAFTA, launching a 90-day consultation after which talks over one of the world's biggest trading blocs can officially begin.
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Following reforms to Italy's electoral law that allow coalitions to contest seats in parliament, Italy's main political parties have already formed into center-right and center-left blocs in a bid to make the most of the changes.
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And with Republicans barely hanging on to their legislative majority in the Virginia Capitol, Democrats were counting on the same two blocs to propel them to victory in this fall's election of all 140 delegates and state senators.
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When it comes to the primary, Asian American voters comprise sizable blocs in both California and Nevada, two of the early Democratic primary states, and could help play a deciding role in who the nominee winds up being.
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The United States has expressed interest in participating in the next rounds of auctions of oil blocs in the pre-salt area off the coast of Brazil, particularly in one region called the "transfer of rights" area, Albuquerque said.
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Upholding impartiality in the Democratic primary was a carefully calculated attempt by the White House to maintain some semblance of party unity, even as Clinton and Sanders divided traditional Democratic voting blocs in their respective bids for the nomination.
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Merkel, who leads the Christian Democrats (CDU), ceded the powerful finance ministry to the SPD in a coalition deal finally agreed on Wednesday, more than four months after a national election last September in which both blocs lost support.
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But the two blocs' weak performances in last September's election, when they both suffered their worst results since Germany became a republic in 1949, mean the latest incarnation of their awkward alliance promises to be the most fractious yet.
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Netanyahu initially pledged a speedy "application of Israeli law" - de facto annexation - to Jewish settlement blocs and the Jordan Valley, delighting his religious-rightist base ahead of Israel's March 2 election, where he hopes to win a fifth term.
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The United States is asked to oversee a world order that withstands increasing shocks; recognizes the demands and grievances of newly confident blocs of power; and devises rules of the road for novel domains of interaction, such as cyberspace.
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PARIS, Feb 23 (Reuters) - European Union agriculture is being threatened by internal divisions and rival trading blocs, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday, calling for a large budget to defend EU goals on food quality and environmental protection.
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"The aim was to strengthen the links between the two most important trade blocs in Latin America," said outgoing Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who has spent much of the past two years mired in trade negotiations with Trump.
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The AKP was left unable to form a government alone and forced to engage in coalition talks with the country's second and third largest parliamentary blocs — the secular Republican People's Party (CHP) and far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).
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While the elections in May did not usher in the populist wave many had predicted, some 25 percent of the parliament is still made up of Euro-skeptic lawmakers, while the traditional left and right power blocs have fragmented.
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EU states' pressure against the new listing has intensified after a meeting of EU and Arab League foreign ministers ended with no agreement on a joint statement on Monday, in a sign of worsening relations between the two blocs.
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The new cohort of Iraqi lawmakers was sworn in after a formal handover ceremony attended by the leaders of the main electoral blocs, including Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi who addressed the gathered MPs of the 329-seat body.
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Both blocs face a daunting task to form a government, having ruled out cooperating with the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, which hold the balance of power with 62 seats, and also considered unlikely to team up with each other.
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De Maiziere and Justice Minister Heiko Maas, representing the two blocs in Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition, agreed this month on tougher measures for asylum seekers whose documents are not in order or who are deemed a security threat.
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The four nations of the Pacific Alliance, one of Latin America's major trade blocs, agreed on Friday to deepen financial integration in the lead-up to a regional conference in Chile designed to counter creeping global protectionism.
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First came the controversy surrounding the 2015 Hugo Awards, in which blocs of unhappy voters (calling themselves the Sad Puppies and the Rabid Puppies) used a loophole in the nomination system to largely exclude women and members of minorities.
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The new process of selecting a location to host the World Cup tournament allows each federation a vote that will be made public, meaning blocs of countries — such as those in Africa — could likely vote together, according to ESPN.
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Citing what it said was a source briefed by the Americans, the television report said the plan would entail Israel annexing Jewish settlement blocs in the West Bank while isolated settlements would either be evacuated or their construction halted.
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Netanyahu has stopped short of endorsing those positions - steps that would put Israel at odds with long-standing U.S. and European policies - while speaking of building in major settlement blocs Israel intends to keep in any future peace deal.
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But after weeks of negotiations, his plans ran aground on a power struggle between two blocs of his potential right-wing coalition — the secular ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox factions — who refused to compromise on proposed legislation on military service.
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On Super Tuesday alone, 1,344 delegates are up for grabs, which means that, like the recent contests in Nevada and South Carolina, the most consequential constituency groups and voting blocs in America — black and brown voters — will be heard.
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They are groping about for rhetoric and policies that not only can be plausibly said to address climate change but also don't offend any large bloc of the current conservative coalition, especially the financially supportive and fossil fuel blocs.
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As the cultural divide sharpened, two blocs of conservative writers began interfering with the Hugos, using a loophole to shape the list of nominees; until it was closed, two years later, people protested by selecting "No award" on ballots.
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Besides polling and appearing on the air, he developed Voter Profile Analysis, a model of national and state voting patterns by ethnic, religious and economic blocs that he used to predict election results with astonishing success, starting in 1964.
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More than half of the state's Democratic electorate is expected to be African-American, one of Mr. Biden's strongest blocs of support, and the former vice president has led in the polls there since the outset of the race.
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Unable to agree to form a single coalition, the opposition ran as three blocs: the Civic Platform-led centrists, who will have 134 MPs, the agrarian Polish Coalition, who will have 30, and the Left, which will have 49.
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In communities where whites make up the majority of voters and where people generally vote in racial blocs, white voters can defeat minority-preferred candidates and elect white-preferred candidates for at-large districts that encompass the entire electorate.
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Most informal peace plans have envisaged border adjustments that would allow Israel to retain some of the major settlement blocs, especially those close to the 1967 boundaries, under any permanent agreement with the Palestinians, in return for land swaps.
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Evangelical Christians formed one of Trump&aposs most solid voting blocs in 2016 and have largely stuck by him, but some have questioned the support in light of some of Trump&aposs opinions and actions, including his multiple divorces.
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Foreign affairs analysts largely blamed the 2010 failure on a patchy Canadian campaign and policies likely to have alienated large voting blocs, such as a strong pro-Israel Middle East policy and reductions in aid to poor African nations.
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Mr. Netanyahu was pressed in a live television interview Saturday night over why he had not already annexed settlement blocs like Maale Adumim and Gush Etzion, two large Jewish communities built on occupied territory on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
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At this juncture, the building of a broad coalition of voters requires intentional work from progressive white female and Latinx voters, which includes voter education and organizing with these voting blocs in the years between and leading up to elections.
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"The parliamentary and ministerial blocs representing the (Sunni) Forces Coalition ... has decided to withdraw from the government session of Tuesday and also the parliamentary session because of the events in Muqdadiya," parliament member Fahl said in an interview with al-Sumaria.
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The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday triggered a 90-day consultation period with Congress, industries and the American public that would allow talks over NAFTA, one of the world's biggest trading blocs, to begin by Aug. 16.
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Already well ahead in the polls, the former vice president could prove himself inevitable after the first month of elections and caucuses if he has such a strong showing with one of the most important Democratic voting blocs: black voters.
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He tried to placate them this week by approving plans for more than 3,000 new homes, mainly in Jewish neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem and the big "settlement blocs" which are expected to be part of Israel in any future peace agreement.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - Syria's main opposition body on Sunday approved a new delegation to take part in Geneva peace talks later this month, which include Russian-backed blocs that have been critical of the armed insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad.
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Latinos and African-Americans have emerged as key voting blocs in the Democratic race for the White House nomination so far, and are likely to play a large role in the outcomes of big contests looming in New York and California.
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NAJAF, Iraq, June 23 (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Saturday that their political blocs, which came in third and first place in a May parliamentary election respectively, would enter into an alliance.
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And with party leaders worried that Mr. Cruz's hard-right stances would doom them in the fall, Mr. Cruz's expectation of success — or at least a non-rout — with one of President Obama's key voting blocs is central to the rebuttal.
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A better idea than the Trump administration's wrecking strategy would have been to unite most of the world around a set of rules in America's interest, forming blocs so large that China would have had to choose between compliance and isolation.
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Legal experts say the dispute is one of the most important in the 23-year history of the WTO, because it pits the major trading blocs against each other with fundamentally opposing views of how the global trade rules should work.
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Saturday's vote, which saw a 5-Star politician take charge of the lower chamber while a center-right veteran became head of the upper house Senate, raised speculation the two blocs might move on and try to forge a coalition.
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Trump's best chance to win the presidency comes by flipping rust-belt states where Democrats have had natural advantages in recent presidential elections and which have larger than average blocs of white non-college voters -- Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin among them.
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The deal between two of the world's largest trade blocs has been cheered by leaders in both regions, though it has raised some concerns about rising competition among farmers in Europe and industrial sectors such as automobiles in South America.
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The partnerships and ad buys are an acknowledgment by Clinton's top super PAC that driving up turnout among African-American and Latino voters -- two voting blocs that have soured on Republican nominee Donald Trump -- is critical to Clinton's chances in November.
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