Sentences with phrase «after landslides»

These new structures in Jintai Village came about after landslides and floods in 2011 destroyed previously rebuilt homes, and incorporate various strategies to boost resilience, explain designers Joshua Bolchover and John Lin on Dezeen:

I would be interested to see a historical analysis of macro-economic shifts from states supporting the loser to states supporting the victor after landslide elections involving party change.

Heng Swee Keat, Singapore's education minister and former central bank managing director, was named the nation's next Finance minister after a landslide election victory in September by the ruling People's Action Party and prime minister Lee Hsien Loong.

The issue of Newsweek that appeared just after the landslide reelection of Richard Nixon reported that the President believes that this nation needs to reject permissiveness in favor of a new stress upon personal responsibility.

In December 1972, the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, a centrist faction within the Democratic Party, was created after the landslide victory of Republican Richard Nixon over anti-war progressive Democrat George McGovern in the 1972 presidential election.

After a landslide defeat in the election on 1 May 1997, John Major resigned on the morning of 2 May.

At least 49 people have been killed after a landslide swept through a fishing village on the banks of Lake Albert in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Seattle Weekly: After Landslide Defeat, Jess Spear Claims Victory for Rent Control and Third Party Politics

In 1983 the LCC organised a major conference «After the landslide» to examine the lessons from the party's catastrophic defeat of that year: the tone the conference set - that organisational and political modernisation and change were essential was to become the dominant theme in the party's internal life in the following decade.

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.

In fact the Lords only gets properly reformed after a landslide — as in 1906, and 1997.

Immediately after his landslide victory, 76 % approved of his government's performance, while 13 % disapproved.

Jeremy Corbyn has been elected leader of the Labour Party after a landslide victory this morning.

«After a landslide of inquiries, we decided to see if there was a good case for offering a limited run of them.»

Villagers living along the Kali Gandaki River evacuated amid fears of flash floods after a landslide blocked the river, in Myagdi District, in the northwest.

Not exact matches

After Johnson's landslide victory over Goldwater, Southern white voters began their long exodus from the Democratic Party and African Americans became, once again, captive to one party.

Shares of Twitter were tanking in premarket trading on Thursday after forward guidance missed expectations by a landslide and quarterly revenue was far below estimates.

Yes, after Goldwater lost in a landslide in 1964, the Republicans came back strongly to win in 1968.

Although there was talk of undoing some of the reforms after the Nixon landslide of 1972, the new bosses were able to continue as a dominant influence in the party.

Evans has fallen out of favor with the Kings after struggling with a move to small forward, but he is only two years removed from winning the rookie of the year award in a landslide.

Back in the late 90s, shortly after the Scottish Tories were wiped out in the 1997 Labour landslide, Sir Malcolm Rifkind used to make a little speech in which he claimed that up to 40 % of Scots voters were potential Conservatives.

Supporters would expect a race to be a landslide for a particular candidate, but polling showed that their challenger is improving in the polls and the election may be a close race after all.

Cuomo is now ahead among likely voters 55 - 37, compared to 49 - 43 in a Sept. 22 Q poll conducted one week after Paladino's surprise landslide win in the GOP primary.

But after the general election landslide that saw the party take 56 of the 59 constituencies available in Scotland, Salmond is now an alpha wolf with a large, well - organised pack.

After emerging from his Rose Garden following Carl Paladino's landslide win in the Sept. 14 GOP primary and increasing concerns among some members of his party that his above - it - all strategy wasn't resonating with key segments of the electorate, Cuomo met in Harlem with black leaders.

The constitutional change agenda gained momentum after the 1997 Labour landslide, when important changes were passed, like devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the Human Rights Act that incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into British law.

Shortly after Labour's landslide victory in 1997, for some perverse reason I invited Ken Clarke to attend one of our monthly Tribune dinners in the Gay Hussar restaurant, that old canteen of the Labour Left, in London's Soho.

He explored a run for governor in 2010, but has attracted a legion of new critics and drawn a crowd of challengers in his upstate New York district — after twice winning reelection by landslide margins.

In their first public break since they made amends after Greenfield's landslide victory over the Hikind - backed / funded / inspired Joe Lazar, Assemblyman Dov Hikind has decided to endorse a Republican challenger to defeat centrist Democratic Congressman Mike McMahon.

An astonishing surge in membership after defeat for the Yes campaign in last year's independence referendum was followed by an SNP landslide in May's general election, when the party won 56 of Scotland's 59 constituencies.

And a day after Astorino's landslide loss, Cuomo danced on what would appear to be Astorino's political grave.

Katy Clark - former left - wing MP for North Ayrshire and Arran, hired as Corbyn's political secretary after losing out in the SNP landslide

After winning in two landslides statewide for her U.S. Senate seat, the emphasis on those issues appears to have been a success.

It gives her a higher net satisfaction rating than John Major and Gordon Brown after their first months in the top job, but does not trump Tony Blair's first month after his 1997 landslide, when 65 % were satisfied and only 5 % dissatisfied.

The findings came just 24 hours after it emerged Mr Corbyn has received the landslide support of local Labour branches.

A Democrat who took office in 2014 after a contentious 2013 primary and landslide general election, de Blasio is consolidating organized party support ahead of this September's primary, for which his main opposition is former City Council Member Sal Albanese and police reform leader Robert Gangi.

Sadiq Khan is the first Labour Mayor of London for 8 years after winning a landslide victory over Tory Zac Goldsmith.

DS19 was wound up three months after the 1983 election, at which Heseltine was widely credited with helping the Conservatives achieve a landslide victory.

I was elected myself in a by - election just six months after our greatest landslide in 1997 and got a comparable share of the vote to that which Liz got last night.

A day after winning re-election in a landslide, Mayor Bill de Blasio said his «greatest passion» in his second term will be making the public - school system «look entirely different.»

It's two days after her husband, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, won re-election in a landslide, and we're in an ornate, peach - colored parlor room in Gracie Mansion, the mayor's residence.

Faso was defeated in landslide in 2006 against Democrat Eliot Sptizer; Collins bowed out of running in 2010 after he compared then - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to Adolf Hitler and apologized.

After Jeremy Corbyn's landslide Labour leadership victory, revolution was well and truly in the air...

There will be a vacant state Senate seat in the Bronx, after conservative Democratic Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. won a three - way NYC Council primary by a landslide.

After Jeremy Corbyn's landslide Labour leadership victory, revolution was well and truly in the air this afternoon — with even Sky News man Adam Boulton taking radical action.

In an interview with our sister title The House magazine, Dugher questioned why the grassroots movement still exists after Corbyn romped home to a landslide leadership victory in September.

State Republican Party chairman Ed Cox finally got around to endorsing Trump for president — two days after the real estate magnate won the GOP primary in his home state by a landslide.

But Cuomo refused to take the»88 bait, even after posting a landslide victory in his 1986 reelection campaign.

It was released today minutes after Mr Corbyn triumphed in a landslide 62 % victory - a bigger mandate than he won last year.

Mr. Christie, who has seen his own presidential ambitions take a hit after the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal, told reporters yesterday that the RGA wouldn't invest in «landslides» and «lost causes» when he was questioned about Mr. Astorino's campaign.