Sentences with phrase «by a landslide before»

It is just that Carter was well on his way to losing by a landslide before the hostage crisis and there is no obvious way that he could have turned that situation around.

Not exact matches

Sadiq Khan was called as the winner of London's race by several news outlets hours before the landslide result was confirmed in the early hours of Saturday.

Under the leadership of Tony Blair, the governing Labour Party was re-elected to serve a second term in government with another landslide victory, returning 413 of the 418 seats won by the party in the previous general election, a net loss of 5 seats, though with significantly lower turnout than before — 59.4 %, compared to 71.3 % in the previous election.

Before 1997, it was the safest Conservative seat in Scotland, [4] however in the 1997 Labour landslide, it was won by Jim Murphy who held the seat until 2015.

Just before Obama arrived, she had spent a week in the field with a research team seeking to better understand one emerging hazard caused by melting permafrost: a massive, slow - motion landslide that threatens the Dalton Highway, the only land route into Alaska's lucrative North Slope oil fields and arguably the state's most important road.

While the history books report several fatal Caribbean tsunamis in the past, Grindlay has found evidence that even larger tsunamis, triggered by underwater landslides, struck the region before 1492.

They typically last only 20 seconds or so before disappearing, and are different from tsunami waves that can travel great distances after being created by underwater earthquakes or landslides.

Reviewing surveys of the seafloor conducted by Japanese scientists before and after the earthquake, the scientists found signs of a large slump on the seafloor — a rotational landslide 40 kilometers by 20 kilometers in extent and 2 kilometers thick that traveled down the slope of the Japan Trench, leaving a horizontal footprint the size of Paris that could only have been created by a 100 - meter uplift in the seafloor.

Our client achieved a landslide victory, with over 90 % of total seats targeted by CA being won,» the website said before it was taken down.