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Sentence Examples He lost the May 15 election by a landslide in rural and urban areas of Ethiopia. It was also feared that two fishermen were killed when rocks from a landslide fell on their camp at Rocky Bay on the island of Bequia. Kelvin slid down the muddy slope, a landslide of earth, rock and ferns pushing him to the foot of the rise. In 1984, he was re-elected in a landslide over former Vice President Walter Mondale. A stone from the top of the wall broke free, triggering a small landslide of pebbles, and landed with a resounding splash in the stream below. He pushes that stone which starts a landslide and the whole mountain crumbles and flows into the sea. The doctors thought he had been in some sort of a landslide or a building collapse. Generally the incumbent wins preferred PM, even if they're heading for a landslide loss and the voting intention polls point to that loss. In 1929, for example, a relatively modest quake triggered an undersea landslide on the continental slope off Canada. If Labour wins its expected second landslide it will mark the end of a century of Conservative hegemony. On that fateful night a disastrous landslide wrecked havoc on their scenic community. Blair passed over his best chance to subdue his friend and rival by moving him to the Foreign Office in the wake of the last election landslide. Even after his landslide election victory last year, they continue to underestimate him. On that fateful night a disastrous landslide wreaked havoc on their scenic community. He won a big majority on a low share of the vote in 1997 and enjoyed another landslide three years ago on a very low turnout. It is also no good imagining that landslide victories are any guide to legitimacy. Even when it was discovered that the land was unstable and prone to landslide, the squatters remained. Authorities say rumors of a landslide caused panic at a mountaintop Hindu temple. During Ronald Reagan's first term, the misery index was effectively cut in half, guaranteeing his landslide re-election 20 years ago. The structural discontinuity between the shield and the horizontal lavas filling the embayment corresponds to the eroded scarps of the landslide. Show More Sentences He then sends a message of congratulations to the voter in the election, won by the Republican Party in a landslide. Here, the snow peaks of the Karakorums widen and thaw into a landslide of cultivation terraces. In law enforcement, the landslide change from revolvers to autoloaders brought a period of development in the field of duty pistols. The party moved from a landslide majority with 400 seats in 1906 to a rump of 40 MPs just eighteen years later. A Democrat won a tight victory for lieutenant governor while a Republican won a landslide triumph in the attorney general's race. This landslide material was then embayed by lava when the central caldera was flooded. He was first elected in the Fianna Fail landslide of 1977, representing the old three-seater Dublin West constituency. But despite his remorseless pursuit, the talks died with Labour's second election landslide victory. The NLD won the 1990 general election by a landslide but has since been blocked from coming to power. A dead George Washington would win by a landslide against any opposing candidate. He also inaugurated his own War on Poverty, winning the 1964 election by a landslide. He was swept to power as prime minister in 2001 in a landslide election victory. For example, the 1928 election was a landslide victory for the Republicans. He won by a landslide in the second round of a secret ballot, defeating four other candidates. I maintain that if any mainstream political party were to embrace the above they would win the next General Election by a landslide. As a direct result, the Labor government was defeated by a landslide in the 1996 elections. He was imprisoned a year before the NLD won a landslide election victory in 1990 only to be denied power by the generals. Labour looks set to secure a landslide election victory, according to a snap poll in Bolton. In other words, Labour would have had a landslide election victory in 1997 even if no tactical vote had been cast. His landslide election victories, and his personal popularity in Middle England, made him look unassailable. Show More Sentences The criteria for eligibility were extreme hardship, serious injury, damage to their homes, or bereavement directly as a result of the landslide. When the party won a landslide election in 1984, the country was ready for reform. Heavy rain was last night blamed for causing a landslide that led to a passenger train derailing on one of Britain's busiest routes. Gorton rode into the Senate in 1980 on the heels of the Reagan landslide, defeating that old liberal warhorse, Warren Magnuson. After that, she stood for the school board elections, and won by a landslide. Three other profiles, measured across the portion of the scarp degraded by a landslide, also share distinctive features. He won a landslide election victory earlier this year on the themes of clean government and a more tolerant society. A man was found dead beneath a landslide that followed a number of powerful aftershocks that jolted the island on Wednesday morning. At least half the deaths were caused by a landslide above Las Colinas, an area deforested by excessive construction work. Walter Mondale had a similar idea, and he went down in a landslide defeat at the hands of the last Republican president to be re-elected. But in the end, the debonair president with a touch for the common citizen came through with a landslide re-election victory. Police said the landslide had swept seven houses some 30 meters downhill in the hilly residential area of Candi after a retaining wall broke early on Saturday. Roosevelt won the presidency and his opponent, the forgettable Alton Parker, was said to have lost the election by a landslide. Hispanic Republican moderate Brian Sandoval just won a landslide reelection in Nevada. In spite of the landslide victory, the LDP was hardly in a celebratory mood. One of those clever but acned young men at Central Office has worked out that, after abolishing verbs, the Prime Minister won two landslide election victories. She was devastated and traumatised in the aftermath of the landslide. The television station kept airing exit polls, claiming that the party had scored a landslide victory in both the parliamentary and local elections. There is no need to recount where one candidate has won by a landslide. The anti-lottery effort, led by evangelical churches and a conservative Republican lieutenant governor, spent less than half that amount and won anyway in a landslide. Show More Sentences Southend Council is to ask the Government to foot the bill for damage caused by the Cliffs landslide with the amount expected to run into several million pounds. A cadre of regime apparatchiks soon seized power, eventually leading to the landslide election of their leader, ion Iliescu. In a scene recalling the earthquake's devastation, riverfront houses loomed over the river at a dangerous tilt after a landslide swept away most of their foundations. The Ohio governor is about to score a landslide win in a state Republicans need to win the White House. But after winning a landslide election in his own right, TR unwisely said he would not run for a third term. But the most recent opinion polls show that Sarkozy will lose that mano a mano matchup by a landslide. With bodies recovered from the landslide but no names released, the town of OSO hopes for the best and anticipates the worst. A 5.1-magnitude earthquake triggered the collapse of the mountain's north flank, unloosing the biggest landslide ever recorded and an eruption equal to 500 Hiroshimas. Meanwhile, work has yet to start on the Calderdale side of the border, where a landslide above the road has buckled the tarmac and pushed over fence posts. Half a mile to the north, a scattered herd of fallow deer nosed at the snow-covered roots of wide-spaced, scraggly trees sprouting from the rubble of an ancient landslide. The landslide victory put the peanut farmer on the political map and helped create the folksy image that eventually earned him the presidential nod. With such a network in place, it should be possible to detect precursory displacements and to provide a timely warning of any impending landslide. As the landslide material comes to rest on the deep-sea floor, the sudden displacement of a huge vertical column of seawater can kick up deadly tsunamis across wide areas. It also has something of a double bluff about it as a further public denial that FF does not envisage revisiting the glory days of that 1977 landslide. The imperial policies of the Conservatives eventually proved unpopular and in the general election of 1906 the Liberals won a huge landslide. Balfour's unseating became symbolic of the Conservative Party's landslide defeat. While many criticize block voting's tendency to create landslide victories, some cite it as a strength. The landslide Liberal victory led to many Conservative and Unionist MPs losing what had previously been regarded as safe seats. The Liberal's landslide victory of 125 seats over all other parties led to the passing of social legislation known as the Liberal reforms. The SNP went on to win a landslide victory in Scotland, winning 56 out of 59 seats. Show More Sentences Block voting regularly produces complete landslide majorities for the group of candidates with the highest level of support. At the 2011 election, the SNP won a landslide victory and achieved a large overall majority. An election followed in direct response, and the Whigs were returned with a landslide majority. Both teams posted landslide victories to win their heats without a full squad. You only have to look at other results from the York tournament to see the high number of landslide victories that occur. Interim Chairman Hamid Karzai, 44, wins a landslide re-election in the loya jirga by 1,295 out of 1,575 votes. At an early point in their descent, the army came upon a section of the path that had been blocked by a landslide. At the July 1945 general election Dunglass lost his Parliamentary seat in the landslide Labour victory. During the elections of February 1980, Robert Mugabe and the ZANU party secured a landslide victory. On 8 February 2008, Dean Barrow was sworn in as prime minister after his UDP won a landslide victory in general elections. The PUP won a landslide victory in the 1998 national elections, and PUP leader Said Musa was sworn in as prime minister. In 1904 he helped negotiate the end of all French fishing rights, and was reelected in a landslide. In July 2011, the King won a landslide victory in a referendum on a reformed constitution he had proposed to placate the Arab Spring protests. Some world regions, such as the French Alps, already show signs of an increase in landslide frequency. They are among the first living things to grow on fresh rock exposed after an event such as a landslide. The referendum was a Labour manifesto commitment, held four months after their landslide victory in the 1997 UK general election. An example of a landslide lake is Quake Lake, which formed as a result of the 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake. Nixon capitalized on this changing tide of voting behaviour, and hence won a landslide victory in the 1972 election. We believe in Him by a landslide 74 percent to 26 percent margin. The theory is a vast underwater landslide in the English Channel was triggered by the earthquake, which in turn caused a tsunami. Show More Sentences The election resulted in a Conservative landslide victory, with the now leaderless Labour Party winning only 46 seats in Parliament. The leaders realized they had to act fast to keep up the momentum of the 1945 electoral landslide. It was the collapse of the Liberal party that led to the Conservative landslide. The end of the war saw a landslide victory for Clement Attlee and the Labour Party. During the May 1959 elections, the People's Action Party won a landslide victory. John Major resigned as party leader after the Conservatives were defeated in a landslide and was succeeded by William Hague. The SNP increased its number of MPs from four to six in the 1997 general election, which saw a landslide victory for the Labour Party. Despite the Conservative landslide, his own majority fell by more than a thousand. The result was a rejection of the proposal by a landslide majority, with only just over one per cent of the electorate in favour. The Awami League won a landslide majority in the 2008 general election. In the local government elections of 3 May 2007, Leicester's Labour Party once again took control of the council in what can be described as a landslide victory. Conservative supermarket magnate Ricardo Martinelli was elected to succeed Martin Torrijos with a landslide victory in the May 2009 presidential election. Block voting, or plurality block voting, is often compared with preferential block voting as both systems tend to produce landslide victories for similar candidates. While those who predicted a close contest missed the result by miles, others did not foresee the drubbing of the NDA or the landslide for the Grand Alliance. MacDonald won the largest landslide in British political history. I THOUGHT at the time that Tory triumphalism was misplaced in May, as winning a majority of 12 was turned into a landslide, simply because any Tory majority was unexpected. The Labour Party was defeated in a landslide in the 1983 general election, and Michael Foot was replaced shortly thereafter by Neil Kinnock as party leader. A landslide hazard zonation map has also been proposed based on the historical landslide data like geological, geomorphology, population, climatic and rainfall data. A rain-triggered landslide led to the collapse of large sections of an apartment complex in Guiyang, the capital city of Guizhou province on Wednesday. At the poll on 14 December, Lloyd George's coalition won a landslide, with Asquith and every other former Liberal Cabinet minister losing his seat. Show More Sentences Labour won the 1997 general election by a parliamentary landslide. The performance which Arsenal showed recently allows us to achieve the landslide victories, so I hope that the upcoming clash will be no exception. Examples from Classical Literature And a great pity the way he dropped off and had his mine lost by a landslide. I was nearly killed in a landslide, and now the men who saved me from that are done for. There are a few exceptions where the lake is due chiefly to a morainal dam, or a dam that was formed by a landslide. Lead failed to do it, but God sent the landslide, and you are as good as dead. The election of 1964 was a landslide victory for the democratic Party. Ignazio Marino promised to bring order to Rome's chaos when he was elected mayor in a landslide last year. A landslide on Canna last week is being partly blamed on underground rabbit warrens which weakened the soil structure, she said. He had caved in and gone down like a landslide when I pronounced that fearful name, and had never come to since. You've made a landslide with your confounded acres and a cow, and Verner can hardly get a vote anywhere. The landslide in the village of Raikomol, Jalal-Abad oblast last nighted killed three families of 16 people. According to the political experts the landslide victory was unaccepted and the results were historic. Great rocks and trees, carried down by the appalling force of the landslide were slipping over the trail, obliterating it as though it had never existed. As heavy rain continued in the north of Scotland, there were two minor landslides on roads in Easter Ross and another minor landslide on a road in the Black Isle. They had been made so in a single night, by his mother, who had compressed about them a powdered mineral which was dug from the landslide back of Port Adams. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of landslide? Words that rhyme with landslide What is the past tense of landslide? What is the plural of landslide? What is the noun for landslide? Translations for landslide Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words landsknecht landskip landside landscapists landscapist landscaping landslides landslip landsman landsmen Landtag land use 9-letter Words Starting With l la lan land lands landsl landsli landslid