Sentence examples for a second landslide from inspiring English sources

It paid off: he was rewarded with a second landslide victory.

June 8 2001 William Hague announces he is to resign after the government wins a second landslide victory.

Whereas a second landslide victory should, in the normal course of events, have reinforced Mr Blair's dominance, it may, paradoxically, have weakened him.

The near unity in the cabinet over Iraq arose partly because Blair had won a second landslide election and, shamefully, ministers chose not to probe deeply believing they were acting "responsibly" by backing him.

Tony Blair may have a second landslide majority in the Commons but some of the coming legislation will face a coarse response at hunts, in judges' robing chambers, among union executives and in old people's homes.

With less than a week to go to the election, and opinion polls pointing stubbornly to a second landslide defeat, the Tory faithful have begun to despair.The Tories' defeat in 1997 was blamed largely on sleaze, Europe and the need for a change after 18 years.

Mr. Fujimori had hoped for a third landslide victory that would venerate his successes in defeating two terrorist groups and hyperinflation and making peace with Ecuador after decades of border tensions.

Under the advice of a band of economists known as the "Berkeley Mafia", enough of a market economy emerged to allow the country to prosper until, in 1998, Asia's financial crisis sent the rupiah diving and, with it, despite a seventh landslide "election" victory, the president.He went obediently, handing over to his eccentric protégé Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie.

In 2001 the party won a second consecutive landslide victory, capturing a 167-seat majority the largest-ever second-term majority for any party in the House of Commons.

A YEAR and a half ago, when Tony Blair won a second successive landslide victory, the Conservative Party seemed to have reached its nadir.

Despite those efforts, Hague's tenure was marked by continued discord, and in 2001 the party suffered a second consecutive landslide defeat to the Labour Party.