Sentences with phrase «away in a landslide»

Shouldn't the Democratic vote get split between the two Ds, leaving the lone R running away in a landslide?

When I went back to Cariaco, the house over the crack in the ground was gone; it had been swept away in a landslide.

Not exact matches

However, infighting between the two rival candidates for the Labour nomination, Mohammed Sarwar and Mike Watson, along with an energetic local campaign, resulted in Glasgow Govan being the only Scottish seat to see a swing away from Labour in the midst of a Labour landslide nationwide.

While the 2001 seats tally was much the same as the 1997 landslide, in key areas like Stoke the working class voter had already started to slip away.

With the closure of the mines it has gradually moved away from Labour, being won by the Conservatives in 1979 and, after returning to Labour in their landslide years of 1997 and 2001, being won back by Mark Harper in 2005.

It also caused landslides and mudslides and raging floods in the area, which caused roads to crumble away.

Triggered by heavy rain, the Maoxian landslide swept away homes in Xinmo village, blocking a 2 km section of river and burying 1,600 meters of road.

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said that while there were no casualties in the latest incident, the landslide on Sunday dragged away three excavators and buried one excavator and two cars of the volunteers.

Faced with this double whammy of climate change impacts and abandoned partially - built dams that have channelled rivers in new directions, residents of many Uttarakhand villages are now stuck behind multiple landslides, with food running out and their homes in danger of being washed away or buried under yet another landslide.