Sentences with phrase «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.

Senate Republicans have a track record of winning contested races, having scored a landslide last fall with the seat vacated by GOP former Sen. Tom Libous, who was convicted of lying to the FBI last July.

Not exact matches

In a rare sign of bipartisan support for just about anything on Capitol Hill, two bills both aiming to make it easier for entrepreneurs to raise money sailed through the House last night in landslide votes.

(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.)

The latest sanctions come as President Donald Trump's relationship with Putin is under greater scrutiny since the American leader congratulated the Russian president for his landslide election victory last month.

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 Republican vote — I repeat — will likely be just short of a landslide, just as the Democratic vote was last time.

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.

Before last weekends results we may have said this would be a landslide home win.

The Toffees have won on each of their last four visits to Manchester, and each of the last four league meetings overall, so a fired up Man City, one which will be at full strength for Saturday's game, will be doubly determined to end a landslide of defeats against David Moyes» team.

Villa fans knew he looked good last season, perhaps without being spectacular, but he alone was unable to prevent a landslide.

As last week's landslide result shows, Khan is popular among party activists.

The Democratic Party picked up seats last election without a Presidential candidate who had great coat tails — and against your Trump landslide (where 10.6 million more Americans voted against Trump than for him).

Cuomo, who campaigned with Bramson last weekend, would need the state's suburban counties next year if he wants a landslide victory.

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.

This constituency is held by Iain Gray, the MSP who led Labour to landslide defeat at the last 2011 Scottish parliament election.

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

This is nothing more than a desperate last minute effort to stave off a landslide by McGrath.

This election was called mainly because the reality of Brexit and the falling pound was starting to hit consumers - it was the last chance saloon for a Tory landslide.

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.

Speaking on the Geraldo Rivera Show, Mr. Cox acknowledged the possibility that Mr. Grimm — who won a landslide victory over former Brooklyn Councilman Domenic Recchia Jr. last night — might have to give up his seat before completing his third term representing Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn.

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.

> Last year I asked for your views on whether the Tories should direct more resources into «landslide targets».

But a new Quinnipiac poll made public last week showed that a landslide win of that magnitude appears out of Cuomo's grasp.

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.

The former shadow cabinet ministers have reached a «common understanding» about the best way to take on Mr Corbyn, who won a landslide victory last year, after wrangles over who should stand against him.

They believe that one last big campaign on the old issues will bring a Conservative landslide.

Cuomo won a landslide victory last month running on a fiscally conservative platform that unequivocally promised no tax increases while fellow liberal Democrat Silver has long supported higher taxes and increased social spending.

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.

Submarine landslides, like the one at Storegga, seem to have occurred frequently as the last ice sheets receded, as well as at the end of previous glaciations.

Several studies have shown that around 10,000 years ago, as the planet came out of the last ice age, vast portions of volcanic summit cones collapsed, leading to enormous landslides.

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.

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.

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 week's most clicked link by a landslide was from Shellie as she shares how to rock short hair.

With last summer's fire and recent landslides, our trip to Big Sur wasn't what we originally planned.