1.   The opposition Democratic Left Alliance thus became the largest parliamentary bloc.

2.   An increasing number embrace Islamic fundamentalists, who have the largest single bloc in Parliament.

3.   And independents, the largest single bloc in the state, swung toward the Democratic Party.

4.   According to figures supplied by the office of William Gardner, the secretary of state, they now constitute the largest bloc in the electorate.

5.   But his party, while rebuffed on Wednesday, still controls the largest bloc of seats in the Parliament.

6.   Clinton later held a brief, private and highly symbolic meeting with Quebec separatist Lucien Bouchard, leader of the second largest bloc of seats in the Parliament.

7.   His reformist credentials make him unpopular with the Communists, who have the largest bloc in the Russian Parliament.

8.   Independent voters now constitute the largest bloc of the electorate, and their ranks continue to swell.

9.   It is believed to be the largest bloc of book programming ever on television.

10.   It is the fourth largest trading bloc in the world.