Bloc Québécois

/ (blɒk keɪbɛˈkwɑː) /

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noun

(in Canada) a political party that advocates autonomy for Quebec

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How to use Bloc Québécois in a sentence

However, in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections they were the largest bloc of voters.
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The group seems to blend “black bloc” anarchist street violence with social-media campaigns.
The Monsters Who Screamed for Dead Cops|Jacob Siegel|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Two years later, he had released all Soviet dissidents from prison and was beginning to loosen the reins on Soviet bloc countries.
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Now Lyovochkin complains that several of the Opposition Bloc members have suffered attacks while on the election trail.
Ukraine’s Elections: The Battle of the Billionaires|Anna Nemtsova|October 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST

But politics are volatile in Ukraine and Opposition Bloc is pushing hard.
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Pederson headed a bloc against 'Carmack's Folly,' but he backed the wrong horse, and when the bubble burst he was out in the cold.
We're Friends, Now|Henry Hasse
He didn't feel it—he had thrown up a nerve bloc—but it rattled his teeth together.
The Sensitive Man|Poul William Anderson
Sometimes he becomes wholly insensitive in some part of his body via a nerve bloc.
The Sensitive Man|Poul William Anderson
Can true converts be made to order by constraint, motives of self-interest, or by baptizing them en bloc?
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The French Socialists were returned with important majorities, and the Bloc found itself stronger than ever before.
The War Upon Religion|Rev. Francis A. Cunningham