Sentences with phrase «long in a landslide»

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.) won re-election to his position on Tuesday, defeating Republican challenger Wendy Long in a landslide.

Not exact matches

Her best - selling 1964 book, A Choice, Not an Echo, pushing the presidential candidacy of Barry Goldwater, resulted in the debacle of Goldwater's landslide loss, but the long - term result was the mobilization of large numbers of people, mostly in the Midwest and South and many of them women, who were appalled at the moral havoc that the 1960s had wrought and also, as time passed, at what they perceived as America's growing defense weakness under Jimmy Carter.

He has made significant statewide and regional television buys, even though his Republican opponent, attorney Wendy Long, perhaps best known for losing in a landslide to U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in 2012, is trailing badly in fundraising and public polls.

I think the whole project would have just taken a bit longer, but with a larger majority (as without Healey sure the Labour Govt would have collapsed to a landslide in 1979?).

Long ended up losing to Gillibrand in a landslide that year.

Long, meanwhile, defended her position in the polls, which show her losing in a landslide should the election be held today.

Long lost in a landslide.

They promised a referendum on it in their 1997 general election manifesto but the idea was kicked into the long grass by Tony Blair following his landslide victory, saying he wanted to keep the link between MPs and their constituencies.

Johnson was rewarded with an electoral landslide in 1964 against conservative Barry Goldwater, which broke the decades - long control of Congress by the Conservative coalition.

Patrick O'Reilly is a hard - working, long - time Kingston resident who won the Democratic line in a landslide.

Long - term Labour members chose Owen Smith by a landslide in the party's leadership election, an exit poll has said.

A measure of just how vast the change has been in Scotland is that we are no longer surprised by polls showing the SNP with huge landslide leads in Scotland — we should be.

In addition to New York, where Democrat Chuck Schumer defeated Republican challenger Wendy Long by a landslide, Democrats carried Vermont, Connecticut, Maryland, Colorado, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, California and Hawaii.

Labour pledged a referendum on electoral reform in its 1997 election manifesto but the idea was kicked into the long grass by Tony Blair after his landslide victory.

Long, 56, a lawyer from New York City, lost a previous U.S. Senate bid in 2012 to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D - N.Y., who won by a landslide, 72 percent to 26 percent.

While the list also includes MPs who can properly be described as long - serving backbenchers, it also contains others who have only been at Westminster since the first Blair landslide in 1997.

The scientists have recently begun the difficult task of collecting long core samples of sediment from the sites of large landslides, a critical step in determining when they happened and how often they and their associated tsunamis are likely to occur.

Comparison with recent studies elsewhere has shown that similar, frequent, small volume landslides may be a fundamental mechanism in the long - term evolution of active submarine volcanoes.

This area is known for having landslides that are among the largest and longest in the entire solar system.

«It's been known for a long time that landslides can generate a seismic signal,» says Randall Jibson, a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado.

Found mostly on slopes or ridges, the gullies sparked long - running debates on whether they formed from groundwater seeping out of the martian surface or in dry landslides.

Ultimately, in forests not otherwise limited by energy or nutrients variability in moisture availability with natural and climate oscillations may drive establishment success between years (League and Veblen 2006), with indirect disturbance effects (e.g., fires, landslides, insect outbreaks, and pathogen attacks) greatly affecting long - term recruitment success (Clark et al. 2016).

The East Face above Landslide lake has a drop of close to 1,300 metres (4,300 ft), longer than that of El Capitan in Yosemite, making it one of the tallest continuous mountain faces in the world.

I believe that reaction takes much longer than bubbles require to reach the surface; the methane released in these bubble sites or in rapid events like underwater landslides) either dissolves in water or reaches the atmosphere in a matter of minutes, according to what was posted here earlier.

«As long as the scientists in the Siberian Arctic are not able to report very strong increases in submarine landslides and slope failures, I wouldn't expect that the release into the atmosphere is so severe that it is really very serious at the moment,» Schwark added.