landslides

In the Commons, the first-past-the-post system guarantees that parties can win landslides without a majority of the electorate voting for them.

We need electoral reform, not this Liberal fudge Nick Cohen 2010

The Republican victory of 60 seats in the House ranks with other midterm landslides in 1938, 1946, and 1994.

Steven M. Gillon: The Lessons of 1994 Steven M. Gillon 2010

Well he will sink into oblivion after McCain landslides him so we won't be bothered any more.

Obama continues to narrow Clinton's superdelegate lead 2008

The Republican victory of 60 seats in the House ranks with other midterm landslides in 1938, 1946, and 1994.

Steven M. Gillon: The Lessons of 1994 Steven M. Gillon 2010

In the four we call landslides -- ` 56, ` 64, ` 72 and ` 84 -- the loser got 40% of the vote.

Bill Curry: Good Move 2008

He won both the 80 and 84 election in landslides, capturing all but the most liberal states.

Sound Politics: The Politics of the Gadfly 2006

Perhaps the most common medium for landslides is colluvium — basically particles of weathered rock in the process of becoming soil.

The Liquid Earth 1999

Perhaps the most common medium for landslides is colluvium — basically particles of weathered rock in the process of becoming soil.

The Liquid Earth 1999

And furthermore, the community of Val Bavona “continues to celebrate the beauty of a lifestyle reduced to essentials (houses still do without electricity) as a real utopia, a simple, practical way of continuing, conserving and innovating the resolute search for living space that has characterized its history, finding a use even for the great rocks dislodged in landslides by using the earth they brought down with them to create fragments of vegetable garden and pasture or by the exploitation of jagged ravines to make grondàn, cantìn and splüi.”

Archive 2006-05-01 2006

And furthermore, the community of Val Bavona “continues to celebrate the beauty of a lifestyle reduced to essentials (houses still do without electricity) as a real utopia, a simple, practical way of continuing, conserving and innovating the resolute search for living space that has characterized its history, finding a use even for the great rocks dislodged in landslides by using the earth they brought down with them to create fragments of vegetable garden and pasture or by the exploitation of jagged ravines to make grondàn, cantìn and splüi.”

Val Bavona 2006