Sentences with phrase «landslides at»

Dave Petley, who studies landslides at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom, has not joined the Ambassadors Program yet, but says that access to the images would be «transformational» for his research.

It's a landslide at ESPN, whose crew of 13 are all picking the home squad.

Senate Democrats are eager for the opportunity, hoping the candidacy of Hillary Clinton will spell a landslide at the top of the ticket benefitting down - ballot races and giving them enough of a boost to retake the chamber.

The April 10, 2013, landslide at Rio Tinto - Kennecott Utah Copper's Bingham Canyon mine contains enough debris to bury New York City's Central Park 66 feet deep, according to a new University of Utah study.

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.

«The abstract proposes that a landslide at Mt Meager has the potential to trigger a volcanic eruption, not just melting glacial ice.

Tim Heffernan at BoingBoing explains how a massive landslide at the world's largest open - pit copper mine in Utah is a reminder that «sometimes it's still the earth itself that shakes the world.»

Not exact matches

He had crunched the numbers, looked at the demographics and predicted a landslide victory for Obama in North Carolina and a slim two - point Clinton win in Michigan.

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.

Analysts said his death at the age of 82 was a blow to Iran's pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani ahead of presidential elections in May as he played a key role in Rouhani's landslide election victory in 2013.

This isn't a landslide victory however, Ether's average stake at 45 percent signifies excitement, a solid faith in the currency, and its successful growth.

BANGKOK (AP)-- A landslide of a mound of mining waste has killed at least 14 people in northern Myanmar's jade mining region.

Her best - selling 1964 book, A Choice, Not an Echo, pushing the presidential candidacy of Barry Goldwater, resulted in the debacle of Goldwater's landslide loss, but the long - term result was the mobilization of large numbers of people, mostly in the Midwest and South and many of them women, who were appalled at the moral havoc that the 1960s had wrought and also, as time passed, at what they perceived as America's growing defense weakness under Jimmy Carter.

Lauren LaRocco — The senior led the St. Francis - Sacramento girls cross country team to a landslide victory at the De La Salle / Carondelet Nike Invitational in Concord on Sept. 15.

Every Monday, we take a look at the opening lines for next week's NFL games: Team Betting % Open Current Notes Saints 72 % -3.0 -3.0 This Saturday afternoon showdown (4:30 PM ET) is already the most heavily bet game of the week by a landslide...

To be able to field a footballer who is always up for a fight on the pitch — to be the leader and take responsibilities in a way he has done at Arsenal could prove vital for any football club, especially at the top end of the Premier League where the stakes are so high that one slip - up could lead to a landslide.

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.

A cultural shift that eventually became a landslide began 10 years ago this month, though almost no one noticed at the time.

Democrats did recapture the majority in 2008, part of a nationwide Democratic landslide with President Obama at the top of the ticket.

Another Nationalist landslide, this time at the 2015 general election, followed.

In the immediate aftermath of Carl Paladino's surprise landslide win in the Sept. 14 GOP primary, Senate Republicans rushed to embrace him — Minority Leader Dean Skelos was the first out with a congratulatory statement — and insisted his presence at the top of the ticket would help them win back the majority.

Some of them believe that the Labour party is going to get around 40 % at the next election and win by a landslide.

For instance, Brown takes aim at Tony Blair who argued that he personally won three elections when factors such as popular discontent with the Major administration and artificial inflation of vote share via the first - past - the - post system may greater explain Labour's landslide victory in 1997 (pp. 67 - 72).

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

They were therefore surprised at Labour's landslide victory in 1945.

Looking at the 55 + age group, the Conservatives had higher support than Labour, in every election except the Labour landslide of 1997.

The landslide victory is a boost for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who earned mixed reviews for his first showing at the ballot box, with critics warning «the clock is ticking» on his leadership.

Green says that Cuomo will win re-election with, at best, 52 percent of the vote, a bare majority that would represent a humiliation to the governor, who is known to want to win by at least the landslide 64 percent margin won by his father, Mario Cuomo, in his first bid for re-election in 1986.

DS19 was wound up three months after the 1983 election, at which Heseltine was widely credited with helping the Conservatives achieve a landslide victory.

The Labour Party won the 1997 general election with a landslide majority of 179; it was the largest Labour majority ever, and at the time the largest swing to a political party achieved since 1945.

The previous record was in 1945 when the Conservatives went down to their landslide defeat at the hands of their wartime coalition partners, the Labour Party.

Cuomo has made it clear that his goal for reelection is to at least equal the landslide, 64 percent victory margin won by his father, Mario Cuomo, when he first ran for re-election in 1986.

Back in 1997, New Labour types celebrated their landslide victory with a lively election party at the Royal Festival Hall.

But despite winning this battle, Smith is not afraid to admit that she had not seen the landslide victory coming until it was too late to capitalise on it at the bookies.

At least 49 people have been killed after a landslide swept through a fishing village on the banks of Lake Albert in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

He started his political career campaigning at the age of 11 in Labour's 1945 landslide.

Using different methods, pollsters are divided about the extent of the Conservative lead, but they all show the gap with Labour shrinking, making the landslide Mrs. May hoped for unlikely and even, for at least one polling company, raising the possibility of a hung Parliament.

Then in the early 1970s at first it was thought Labour was on course for a landslide, then that Edward Heath would win comfortably, when the results came in, to the surprise of everyone going off the polls both main party votes had collapsed with Labour having enough seats to form a majority.

In an interview on the BBC's World This Weekend, Blair said that if Theresa May won a landslide, as the polls currently suggest, the Conservatives would read it as a mandate for «Brexit at any costs» — and voters concerned about the risks of leaving the EU should press every candidate to answer whether they had an open mind about whether the final deal was in Britain's interests.

If Labour were to win a similar share of the vote at a general election, they could expect a majority even larger than Blair's landslides in 1997 and 2001.

The landslide victory was quite commendable and outstanding, considering the fact that this was the first time since 1999, the PDP in Enugu State went to the polls as an opposition political party at the national level and still won 100 percent.

He went on to lead the Labour Party to an unexpected landslide victory at the 1945 general election; forming the first Labour majority government, and a mandate to implement its postwar reforms.

By 2010, Mensch was able to take the seat off Hope, although even then - with Labour's popularity at rock bottom under Gordon Brown - she was unable to win the type of landslide New Labour secured in 1997.

It was a jubilant and confident night in a packed ballroom at the Queensbury Hotel as a beaming Elise Stefanik greeted volunteers and supporters after winning every single North Country county — often by landslide margins.

Cuomo, who won a landslide 28 - point victory, campaigned on pledges to reduce state spending, oppose tax increases, and freeze public - employee salaries for at least a year.

Against the background of opinion polls pointing to a Labour landslide, in a week he transformed the political weather, forcing Brown to back down at the eleventh hour.

At this week's Haverstraw Town Board meeting, three North Rockland High School Thomas F.X. Casey Social Studies Honor Society students presented their Rockland County championship winning «Haverstraw Landslide» project to the Town Board and all in attendance at the meetinAt this week's Haverstraw Town Board meeting, three North Rockland High School Thomas F.X. Casey Social Studies Honor Society students presented their Rockland County championship winning «Haverstraw Landslide» project to the Town Board and all in attendance at the meetinat the meeting.

Tony Blair originally formed the Blair ministry in May 1997 after being invited by Queen Elizabeth II to form a new government following the resignation of the previous Prime Minister, John Major of the Conservative Party, as a result of the Labour Party's landslide victory at the 1997 general election.

Washington's Dave Reichert and New Jersey's Frank LoBiondo both routinely won landslide reelection bids, even as their districts voted Democratic at the presidential level.

Blair came to office in the 1997 Labour landslide and served a record 10 years in office before resigning at a time of his own choosing.