Sentences with phrase «in a landslide last»

The mayor, who won in a landslide last year, fared far worse in his push to help Democrats take over the State Senate, but insisted the outcome was not a repudiation of his brand of left - of - center politics.

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(One explanation for why pollsters failed to predict Cameron's landslide victory last year was because «Brintroverts» refused to admit they intended to vote Conservative, an uncool choice in everyday conversation.)

Japan's Abe secures supermajority Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe won a landslide victory in last weekend's general election, opening the way for a push to amend the country's pacifist constitution.

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.

A Tory landslide over Corbyn was the last safe bet in Christendom.

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.

That prediction, of course, proved spectacularly wrong when Paladino defeated his GOP primary opponent, Rick Lazio, in a landslide victory in last week's primary.

Much has been written and spoken about Jeremy Corbyn since he secured a landslide victory in the Labour leadership contest last year.

The last Labour occupant was Tony Blair, consistently well ahead in the polls en route to a landslide victory in 1997.

Its Wednesday article, which was bylined «Telegraph Comment Desk», read: «A lot of people, both in the Labour Party and outside it, think [Corbyn's leadership] would be dreadful for Labour, the sort of political disaster the party last suffered in 1983 when Michael Foot's Left - wing views saw the party lose by a landslide to Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives.

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.

Even though we were outspent 3 to 1 last cycle, Senate Democrats picked up 4 new seats in an unprecedented landslide.

New York last voted for a Republican presidential candidate in 1984, when President Ronald Reagan was re-elected in a landslide.

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

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.

After winning roughly 66 percent of the vote in a landslide victory last week, de Blasio touted his victory as the beginning of an «era of progressive Democratic administrations.»

If last month's Siena poll is any guide, the constitutional convention referendum will go down in a landslide.

The result indicates a divide as Mr Corbyn bids to reunite his party after winning a landslide 62 % in the overall leadership election - a bigger mandate than last year.

On his way to a landslide victory in the Democratic Party primary last month, U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D - Jamaica) outraised his nearest opponent, Mike Scala, by a ratio of 83:1, with the largest donations to his almost half - a-million-dollar war chest coming from the industries he holds sway over as a member of the House Committee on Financial Services.

Underwater landslides were more common in the first 5000 years after the last ice age than they are today.

Guangzhou's Southern Weekend late last year reported that villagers in Kaixian County were eager to move again, citing landslides, mudslides and ominous cracks that had appeared in the ground behind their homes.

Over the last decade, rock avalanches and landslides have become more common in high mountain ranges, apparently coinciding with the increase in exceptionally warm periods (see «Early signs»).

Scientists have discovered that the last subduction zone earthquake to hit the Pacific Northwest was in January 1700, when — like now — soils probably would have been soggy from winter rains and most vulnerable to landslides.

The team from Newcastle University (UK), Chengdu University of Technology, Tongji University, China Academy of Space Technology and Wuhan University (China) have been tracking the devastating events of last week when a massive landslide struck Xinmo Village, Maoxian County, Sichuan Province in China.

Last year's gigantic landslide at a Utah copper mine probably was the biggest nonvolcanic slide in North America's modern history, and included two rock avalanches that happened 90 minutes apart and surprisingly triggered 16 small earthquakes, University of Utah scientists discovered.

Over the last decade, rock avalanches and landslides have become more common in high mountain ranges, apparently coinciding with the increase in exceptionally warm periods.

Last night, Saoirse Ronan hosted Saturday Night Live, and one of the sketches tackled the landslide of sexual harassment scandals in politics, media, and tech.

Last week, disaster struck Colombia in the form of a massive landslide that hit the Libordiana River.

The villagers started to leave their homes and move to safer grounds after they saw cracks in the walls of their houses, reminding them of a recent landslide that buried 28 people alive in Banaran, a neighboring village, last Saturday.

(12/20/2011) As the Philippines begins to bury more than a 1,000 disaster victims in mass graves, Philippine President Benigno Aquino has ordered an investigation into last weekend's flash flood and landslide, including looking at the role of illegal logging.

WSJ: A roundup of what the Indian media said after flash floods and landslides killed at least 800 people in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand last month.

After flash floods and landslides killed at least 800 people in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand last month, disaster management authorities are planning to halt rescue [continue reading...]

We've had our lukewarm [on CAGW] PM politically assassinated last week in a slow - burning coup that started the moment he became party leader in opposition to the Copenhagen conference in 2009 --- and accelerated the moment he was elected in September 2013 in a landslide.

A couple of decades of national madness with the «dry» forces in control, then at last Roosevelt beats the clueless Hoover in a landslide..

Last month, India launched a satellite [1], INSAT 3D, that aims to improve early warnings of extreme weather events — such as the devastating floods and landslides that hit the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in June — and aid search and rescue.

On the same day that Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party won a landslide election in Myanmar last year, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) launched its first office in the country.

Fear, uncertainty and doubt triggered a landslide in the cryptocurrency market last week as traders assessed new regulatory guidelines handed down by South Korea, Japan and the United States.