An association of groups, especially nations, having a common interest and acting as a single political force.
（尤指各国因共同利益而凝成政治力量的）力量集团
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- The resulting power bloc produced systems of political transformism and economic protectionism that corrupted parliamentary life and distorted industrial development.
- It has spawned a new power bloc, made up of faceless fund managers and large multinationals who are ideologically unsympathetic to egalitarian policies.
- It sounds to me like geopolitical manoeuvring rather than the formation of an active power bloc.
- No single nation could survive in today's world without being part of a power block.
- What the Republic needs is to become a member of a political power block capable of protecting the Celtic Tiger.