Sentences with phrase «from landsliding»

There are industrial as well as 59 residential buildings that could be affected by runout from landsliding in these areas.
Some 1,350 metres under the surface and scattered across around 30 kilometres of sea floor, knolls from the landslide were recovered by the team.
Lots of others could, too, judging from his landslide two - to - one re-election in 2014.
Aside from landslides, many lives were lost in collapsing structures in Nepal, often in homes constructed of rock, brick or concrete, and frequently built without adequate enforcement of building codes, the report suggested.
A new study suggests the next big earthquake on the Seattle fault may cause devastating damage from landslides, greater than previously thought and beyond the areas currently defined as prone to landslides.
The Seismograph Stations also recorded infrasound waves from the landslide, which Pankow says are «sound waves traveling through the atmosphere that we don't hear» because their frequencies are so low.
«The train of waves from the landslide, combined with the earthquake generated waves, together created the 40 meter inundation along the Sanriku Coast.»
Damage from a landslide in Nepal on Aug. 2, 2014, that wiped out a village and damaged several hydroelectric plants.
In my recent article posted at MasterResource.org titled «Denial is a River in California: Can Oroville Spark Dam Building» I propose that the 1963 breach of Vajont Dam in Italy from a landslide may be the more apt example.
With its deep roots descending into the underground rock, the tree provides protection to the people by stabilising the soil from landslides in the steep highlands.
I can't wait to get out from the landslide I'm under and chat more!

Not exact matches

Politics aside, you can't dismiss the Gipper's bona fides: With a little help from legendary adman Hal Riney, that optimism — «It's morning again in America» began Reagan's paradigm - shaking campaign ad — carried him to a second term in a landslide.
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.
According to data from FutureAdvisor, it's Uber by a landslide.
Elliott's winning ways are in stark contrast to many of its activist peers, whose recent attempts to take on Fortune 500 companies have failed miserably, from Bill Ackman's landslide loss in a proxy contest with ADP (adp), to Greenlight Capital founder David Einhorn's strikeout at General Motors (gm) earlier this year.
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.
The election was a landslide win for the PC Party, whom improved both their seat total in the legislature and their share of the popular vote from the 2004 general election.
As expected, Don Iveson was re-elected Mayor of Edmonton in a huge landslide with 141,182 votes — 72 percent of the total votes cast in that race — increasing his total vote count from the 2013 election.
But its story from then until now has been one of a steady, stealthy comeback, culminating in the landslide election of May 2014, which brought Narendra Modi (a former RSS higher - up) and the BJP party to power with a large majority in India's powerful Lok Sabha (lower parliament) and in many state assemblies.
Give us a better candidate from any side and watch as Obama loses in a landslide!
Television and movies were pretty liberal in the 1970s and 1980s too, but that didn't stop Reagan from winning two landslides and winning the youngest cohort by 22 % in 1984.
While the election would not have been a GOP landslide, in a normal election year I think a reasonable GOP candidate would have led Clinton in the polls from nomination to election day.
If one looks back from the perspective of the 1984 Reagan landslide, it is evident that the defeat of radicalism in 1972 has now been joined in history by the additional defeat of traditional liberalism in 1984.
With their 11 - 4 landslide victory over Puerto Rico on Aug. 4, the boys from Arizona became the first U.S. team to leave Livermore as Intermediate Little League World Series champions.
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.
The Gunners used up all their bad luck in last weeks game against West Brom, but now with injuries easing and the extra confidence gained from being on the brink of reaching the knockout stages of the Champions League, I can see a landslide win for Arsenal.
Following New Labour's landslide general election victory in 1997 he became the first blind person to take a seat around the Cabinet table, later resigning - twice - from Tony Blair's frontbench.
Beyond a few places where obviously the card reader was by - passed as evidenced in the kind of figures shown as indicated in our reports of the 2015 elections, if we examine critically the credible margin of election results, figures from recent elections and the more recent ones in Kogi and Bayelsa, from those declared, showing a reasonable and realistic reflection of voter turn - out, which are credible, dignified figures, we can say hopefully today that the era of invidious moon - slide and landslide bogus election results are fast becoming a thing of the past in this country.
You might think from the way the government is behaving that they gained a 1945 / 1997 - style landslide mandate on May 6th.
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 early results from the local elections point the way to a Tory landslide, Labour pains and both Ukip and ardent Remainers facing an existential crisis
It was a long road from 1983 to Labour's historic 1997 landslide win.
Rep. Scott Garrett, a staunch conservative from northern New Jersey, faces a fresh challenge from a former speechwriter to Bill Clinton for a seat held by Republicans since Reagan's first landslide.
The year 2008 was a partial exception: the number of landslide districts rose slightly from 2004, but so did the number of swing districts.
Sharpton was supposed to attend a closed - door meeting of African American officials in Harlem back when Cuomo was still reeling from Carl Paladino's landslide GOP primary win and trying to figure out how best to deal with him.
If the Conservatives look like they are going to do well then it remains a plausible line for us to say that we're the only party that can protect Scotland from the effects of a Tory landslide
Labour strategists wanted to energise voters who had drifted away from the party since 1997's New Labour landslide.
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.
John Curtice has just indicated that Labour's lead is 1 %, which matches the movement from Blair's landslide in 1997 to Hague's Conservatives in 1998.
Major's no - show did provoke anger from the programme's audience, though it was on the eve of a poll he was about to lose by a landslide, so this may not have had too much bearing on the electoral outcome.
In a move that may be unconnected to the modest trimming of the Tory lead in national opinion polls the Conservative Party is «quietly withdrawing resources from some «landslide» seats to maximise David Cameron's chances of winning a workable majority.»
Following the election, the Liberal Democrat Leader in the Lords, Lord Wallace, argued that the convention which constrains the Lords from voting down the governing party's manifesto promises (the Salisbury convention — established following Labour's landslide victory in 1945, when the party had just 16 peers) was out of date.
Lord Lyell was first elected to Parliament in the Conservative landslide of 1979, when he won Hemel Hempstead from Labour.
Christie, who just returned from a trip to Iowa and plans to spend time in Colorado this week, said he's repeatedly told candidates he doesn't «pay for landslides» and he doesn't «invest in lost causes.»
Although McCain defeated Bush by landslide proportions in New Hampshire eight years ago, he did so with overwhelming support from independents who are likely to vote in the Democratic primary this time.
On the table is # 1,000 from a former prime minister who won three landslide elections for your party, a man who took the Labour party above 50 % in the opinion polls prior to 1997, compared to its current 32 % - 35 %.
However, the APC who are trailing the PDP in second position had cried foul, claiming that they were already winning with a landslide in Southern Ijaw from the early results.
«Donald Trump's divisiveness, recklessness, incompetence, and record - breaking unpopularity risk turning this election into a Democratic landslide, and only the immediate shift of all available RNC resources to vulnerable Senate and House races will prevent the GOP from drowning with a Trump - emblazoned anchor around its neck.»
Cahill has strong support from the Alliance for Quality Education and former Metro - North chairman Joe Lhota, last year's Republican mayoral candidate in New York City, who was handed a landslide defeat by Bill de Blasio.
While it might be expected that the party would support a lifelong member and landslide - winning candidate, Democrats waited until after Cuomo had garnered support from the state Conservative Party, business coalitions and even tea party groups — entities more accustomed to blasting Democrats than helping them.
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