Sentence examples for landslide majority from inspiring English sources

Margaret Thatcher, a combative personality with a landslide majority, was in part brought down over Europe.

But the Conservatives did win with a landslide majority, so plenty of other people felt the same way.

Even with a landslide majority, Tony Blair sacked his close friend Peter Mandelson twice, at least one of the dismissals being unfair.

At the heart of this problem lies the cowardly stance taken by the 1997 Labour government, which could have used its landslide majority to outlaw selection everywhere.

He may lack Blair's landslide majority and bulging coffers, but they reckon he's inherited Blair's Teflon exterior, the lucky knack that allows gaffes and missteps to go unpunished.

One of the most remarkable, and indeed excruciating, things about May has been her insistence on governing like she's got a landslide majority.

When Labour had landslide majorities it did not matter, although many MPs believed it set a bad example.

Remarkably, Lord Jenkins "proved" that AV+ would seldom lead to coalitions by citing three elections (1983 , 1987and 1997) that produced landslide majorities under first-past-the-post (FPTP).

The trouble is that the massive rebellions on the Iraq war, foundation hospitals and top-up fees for university students proved ineffective, since the Blair government was cushioned by landslide majorities.

Like Modi, the strongmen who supervise these bloody purges of economically depressed and unproductive people are often elected by landslide majorities, and tend to be audacious free-marketeers rather than hopeless socialists.

His party, the Cameroonian People's Democratic Movement (RDPC), has won landslide majorities in every parliamentary election since 1992.