Sentence examples for it a landslide from inspiring English sources

Diplomats said the generals who rule Myanmar had confirmed that negotiations were underway with the opposition party, which it has tried to destroy since denying it a landslide election victory in 1990.

Raging from the hills that rise almost vertically above the town, it brought with it a landslide of mud, vines and boulders that powered through every house and business along the main street.

Yet on June 17th, when they vote in the second round of their legislative election, they will not only break tradition and re-elect the right, but give it a landslide majority.In the first round on June 10th, voters made their intentions clear.

None of this is likely to change the predicted outcome of a big win for the conservatives, although to call it a landslide suggests that something dramatic is going on, whereas the People's party is going to win mainly by default.

And make it a landslide for the A Team. Checkmate.

The Conservative party refused to confirm the figure, which is similar to the membership figure of just under 180,000 claimed by the Labour party – fewer than half the number of members it attracted when it won a landslide victory in 1997.

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What might he say in his own defence?In this section The end is nigh Why the polls got it wrong last time Will it be a landslide?

Only a quirk of the electoral system ushered Winston Churchill into Downing Street with an overall majority of just 17.In this section The end is nigh Why the polls got it wrong last time Will it be a landslide?

"This programme, no other, will be implemented in government," he wrote.In this section The end is nigh Why the polls got it wrong last time Will it be a landslide?

Labour spokesmen dismissed February's fall in unemployment as "fantasy figures".In this section The end is nigh Why the polls got it wrong last time Will it be a landslide?