Sentence examples for great landslide from inspiring English sources

Geraldine Ferraro was buried beneath one of the great landslide defeats of American politics.

Whereas its west flank is smoothly conical, its east side is a ragged depression, pulled apart from the rest of the island in a great landslide.

The little mining town high in the Rockies; it and its sleeping people buried by a great landslide one spring night in 1903.

Normal faulting associated with a great landslide would need to occur at far shallower depths, above the low-angle detachment fault that would connect the offshore fold-and-thrust belt with the normal faults of the headscarp.

In addition to the great landslide distances recorded, the landslides from the 2011 Virginia earthquake occurred in an area 20 times larger than expected from studies of worldwide earthquakes.

F.D.R. soon won re-election in the greatest landslide the country had seen.

Bush won Reagan's loyalty, and the two were reelected in 1984 for a second term in an even greater landslide.

It's January, 1973, the President has won reëlection in the greatest landslide in U.S. history, and Watergate is about to blow up.

If there were no law denying him the right to run again, he might have gained a third term as president with the greatest landslide in history.

At Birmingham Northfield, in 1982, Michael Foot's Labour party picked up a seat from Margaret Thatcher a few months before her greatest landslide; Neil Kinnock did the same in Fulham in 1986, just one year ahead of her next landslide in 1987.

"Friends of God" serves as a breezy, colorful reminder of how George W. Bush became president, why Fox News has the highest ratings of any 24-hour cable news network and why Democrats didn't win an even greater landslide in the 2006 elections.