Examples of using Two blocs in English and their translations into Russian
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During the cold war Europe was divided into two blocs.
The collapse of one of the two blocs did not solve the world's problems.
Around the middle of the 1960s differences in the economic and social development between the two blocs became more pronounced.
The confrontation between these two blocs very nearly dragged the entire world into an uncertain fate.
It was not long however before the world found itself in the grip of a cold war situation that developed between two blocs which competed for influence.
The rivalry between the two blocs contributed to the weakening of the effectiveness of the Organization in addressing international issues.
Serbia has its ways, we do not divide the world into two blocs and we do not choose sides.
Until 1989, the wall and the barbed wire across our country symbolized thedivision of Europe and the rest of the world into two blocs.
Therefore, the confrontational nature of relations between the two blocs was extended to other States across the globe.
Tensions between these two blocs of parties were also reflected in some cantons within the Federation, and the HDZ parties continued to refer to the current Federation government as illegitimate.
Our world still faces the uncomfortable reality of its division into two blocs: the affluent and the poor, the North and the South.
Security thinking and arrangements mainly referred to the relations between states andwere essentially concerned with the military balance between the two blocs of East and West.
When, shortly after the end of the Cold War,with the world no longer divided into two blocs, the European Community(12 countries) and the US signed a"Transatlantic Declaration.
The devices contained two blocs of PE4A, a RDX-type explosive, connected to an electric detonator and a back-up, mechanical detonator, using parts from a type F1 hand grenade fuse assembly.
The second corresponds to a period during which international life was dominated andinfluenced by the antagonism between two blocs of countries inspired by different ideologies.
We will now have two blocs in the government, which will homogenize it in the forthcoming short-term period, but in time, such bi-polar construction will lead to new internal fractions and divisions.
The United Nations did notlose its raison d'être with the end of the cold war, the end of the arms race between the two blocs and the head-on clash of differing ideologies.
We welcome the fact that the confrontation between the two blocs, which for so long had created political tension, has today been replaced by the universal values of democracy and equality in international relations.
The resolutions were adopted by a vote, which demonstrated a split in positions which,in general terms, corresponded to two blocs- that is, the developed countries and the developing countries.
It would not be excessive to point to the antipathy between the two blocs as the principal cause of wars, underdevelopment of the third world, suppression of liberation struggles of nations under foreign domination, and interference in the internal affairs of others.
Even when a global subject such as nuclear non-proliferation was addressed, it was, as we know,fundamentally through a joint initiative by the leaders of the two blocs, which was then presented for multilateral approval.
It is noticeable that, in Doha, both developed anddeveloping countries formed two blocs that were rather cohesive and well aware of their issues, and that this strategy brought some results.
Mr. Dorani(Djibouti)(interpretation from French): I apologize for speaking on a point of order, butI must confess that the current atmosphere reminds me of the times of the cold war- and yet, the two blocs no longer exist.
Although the cold war is over, we are forced to acknowledge that social relations have crystallized into two blocs with almost antagonistic and diverging interests-- that is to say, the rich on one side and the poor on the other.
To call upon Member States to consider raising and expanding their diplomatic representation in African countries andconsolidating coordination between the States of the two blocs in regional and international quarters;
The end of ideological confrontation between the two blocs rightly gave rise to the expectation or the hope that resources, which had been devoted to military purposes would now be reallocated to sectors of social and economic development and to protection of the environment.
It was not by chance that the Conference was more active in the 1990s, a decade which, despite very serious tragedies in several regions of the world, including Europe, was marked by relative optimism following the end of the cold war andof the division of the world into two blocs.
To mitigate that dispersion of political forces, the 450 parties all aspiring to exercise power had,on the basis of political platforms, formed two blocs called political families, constituted not along tribal lines but according to their respective affinities.
And against the global background of confrontation between two blocs, the history of relations between our two countries has been marked by confrontation, sometimes extreme, as in the days of the October 1962 missile crisis, which brought the world to the brink of the nuclear precipice.
When, in the early 20th century, Europe was divided into two opposing blocs, the Entente and the Central Powers, Germany realized that the Entente would prevail in just a couple of years andthat any future war between the two blocs would end in Germany's defeat, which is why German commander started insisting on mounting a preventive attack while Germany, as they assessed, still stood a chance of winning a war, which they regarded as inevitable.
