How To Use Landslide In A Sentence

Last year hundreds of deaths were caused by similar floods and landslides near Rio. Times, Sunday Times
Emergency workers arrived at the scene to be confronted by the enormous size of the landslide and hundreds of homeless families. Times, Sunday Times
He talked about landslides in previous monsoons that had opened gaping chasms in the cliff behind the village.
The village has been buffeted by mudflows, landslides, river debris, flooding and earthquakes.
Almost a year has passed since one of the worst landslides recorded in Scotland wreaked devastation at Glen Ogle, near Stirling.

The structural discontinuity between the shield and the horizontal lavas filling the embayment corresponds to the eroded scarps of the landslide.
There is shock and bewilderment in surrounding mountain villages too, where the earthquake and subsequent aftershocks have caused landslides.
The village was destroyed by a landslide.
The second law can be applied to the prediction of creep failure, such as rockslides, colluvial-deposit landslides and loess landslides as well as clay landslides with locked patches.
The party that promises speed bumps on all residential roads would win a landslide. Times, Sunday Times
Four Public Workshops lead by Dr de Freitas came from the Glossop Lecture on the following topics: The London Basin, Failure in mature landslides, Scale and its use in geotechnics and, The geotechnical significance of Boundary Layers of particles. Edie.net - Latest News
At least 137 died in floods and landslides. The Sun
It found that floods and landslides had trebled since 1980 and storms had doubled. Times, Sunday Times
William Jefferson, known to be less than scrupulous (the FBI found $90,000 in cash in his freezer, and the intimation is that he is connected to some shady individuals from South America), re-elected to Congress in a landslide, primarily due the rantings of the autocratic sheriff of Jefferson Parish. Think Progress » Chertoff Learned of Levee Failure 36 Hours After Mayor Nagin?
That combined with the Hillary & Bill Appalacian bus tour ... to udo the "kitchen sink strategy" ... would give Team Obama a landslide victory in November of 2008. Carter: Obama-Clinton ticket unlikely
Aerial photographs showed great swaths of slum dwellings flattened or swept away by landslides. Times, Sunday Times
He won a big majority on a low share of the vote in 1997 and enjoyed another landslide three years ago on a very low turnout.
Aerial photographs showed great swaths of slum dwellings flattened or swept away by landslides. Times, Sunday Times
The landslides of September 19 destroyed their farms, killed their livestock, and ruined their land.
His party won a landslide victory in the elections.
Deadly or disruptive landslides involving the clay, sometimes known as Leda clay, take place occasionally in Quebec and eastern Ontario. NYT > Home Page
This development has resulted in extensive denudation of these catchment areas and an attendant loss of vegetative cover on the steep slopes, an increase in the incidence of landslides, soil erosion, and siltation of drainage systems in the valley bottoms and ultimately, increased incidence of flash flooding. Water profile of St. Lucia
The authors also predict an increase in violent storms, fires, landslides and avalanches in the Alpine region as well as widespread deforestation.
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
Heavy rain was last night blamed for causing a landslide that led to a passenger train derailing on one of Britain's busiest routes.
A landslide also blocked the Cedar River southeast of Seattle, he said, and officials were considering evacuating area residents.
There are deep gashes in the roads; some are still blocked by landslides and a major road tunnel to the town has collapsed.
He won by a landslide in the second round of a secret ballot, defeating four other candidates.
As the landslide material comes to rest on the deep-sea floor, the sudden displacement of a huge vertical column of seawater can kick up deadly tsunamis across wide areas.
The National League for Democracy pulled off a landslide victory.
As a direct result, the Labor government was defeated by a landslide in the 1996 elections.
Nicola found herself dodging death as she made her way down Dooncarton Mountain with the landslides tumbling down either side of her.
If the landslide is big enough to net 7 or 8 seats, then we'll also get some "gimmes" in the lot, a couple of seats that are real longshots or complete shockers. GOP Official: If We Only Lose Eight Senate Seats, We Win
Here, the snow peaks of the Karakorums widen and thaw into a landslide of cultivation terraces.
The National League for Democracy pulled off a landslide victory.
Premier for the second time after a landslide election victory last year, he seems intent on ensuring that he does not lose again. Times, Sunday Times
He won a landslide election victory earlier this year on the themes of clean government and a more tolerant society.
The blast caused a landslide that collapsed the western part of the island. Times, Sunday Times
The water displaced by the landslides created a tidal wave.
Over the course of time, landslides, rock movement, and vegetation hid the entrances to the other catacombs.
Initial rescue efforts were hampered by a lack of heavy equipment and by landslides triggered by the initial earthquake.
TOM FRATANATO (ph), RETIRED HAWAII POLICE OFFICER: Yeah, in Wai - Hai (ph), that's just about a mile north of Lapahoi-hoi (ph) town, the gulch, which is the Lapahoi-hoi (ph) gulch, the landslide took out the water lines, which supply Waipunalai (ph), Malka (ph) and Waipunalai (ph) Makai, the camps down in Makai. CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2006
Key to overturning Labour's landslides was to remain the party willing to allow people to keep more of their own money.
Landslides have cut off many villages in remote areas.
The blast caused a landslide that collapsed the western part of the island. Times, Sunday Times
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake triggered the collapse of the mountain's north flank, unloosing the biggest landslide ever recorded and an eruption equal to 500 Hiroshimas.
The biggest problem facing the actress and singer-songwriter is that storms and landslides have blocked the roads to her beachside trailer home in Malibu.
In 1984, he was re-elected in a landslide over former Vice President Walter Mondale.
The opinion polls are predicting a Liberal landslide in next week's election.
AT least 20 people were killed in floods and landslides after a typhoon hit Japan at the weekend. The Sun
As a risky landslide, the Manzhai landslide stands at the phase of wiggly deformation presently.
Despite the landslide referendum victory, this looks a distant dream. The Sun
A seven-year-old boy was found dead after a landslide engulfed a block of flats.
Last Tuesday, a record 37 inches of rain fell, and that triggered collapsed buildings and landslides.
Military personnel found the front bumper and were attempting to dig out the wreckage from the landslide. Taiwan Rescue Workers Find Bus Missing in Mudslide
We let readers vote on four of our most special bottles, and the outcome had the kind of decisiveness that Al Franken and Norm Coleman can only dream about: Westport Rivers Winery 1999 Brut Cuvée won in a landslide. iStockphoto The Westport Rivers bubbly was a perfect OTBN candidate because of its special origins. A Sparkling Night of Stature
Kampala - Fresh news from Kabale district in Western Uganda indicates that a landslide has taken place effectively cutting off Rubahya subcounty, the Resident District Commissioner Shafiq Ssekandi has confirmed. AllAfrica News: Latest
The landslide victory put the peanut farmer on the political map and helped create the folksy image that eventually earned him the presidential nod.
The landslides undermine the geology of the area. Times, Sunday Times
She would win a historic landslide. The Sun
Many of the landslips and landslides, and the silt that has covered paddocks, are not covered by any form of insurance.
AFP/Getty Images Another dead body was found by fire fighters in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Friday. 12 people have been confirmed dead in the rain-triggered landslide in Chittagong. Asia in Pictures
But now we have a Labour Party which actually wins elections - two landslides in a row - and has become very much the party of government.
Kelvin slid down the muddy slope, a landslide of earth, rock and ferns pushing him to the foot of the rise.
The Laborites most likely to lose seats are New Labor loyalists swept in the landslides of 1997 and 2001.
For example, the 1928 election was a landslide victory for the Republicans.
There were several landslides in the area, where four workers were marooned.
The Indianapolis Colts quarterback was a landslide winner Friday in balloting by a nationwide panel of 50 sports writers and broadcasters who cover the NFL. Peyton Manning wins record-tying third NFL MVP award
In Canlian landslide located in Wushan, the monitoring optical fiber was laid on the entire landside and BOTDR was used to obtain the outline information of it.
Massive undersea landslides and the breakage of ice or sediment dams impounding large lakes are terrestrial processes that lead to release of water.
The highway segment was about to be reopened early last month when tropical storm Mindulle hit the nation, crippling the road once more with falling rocks, landslides and mudflows.
His ‘landslide’ election victory (in fact a demonstrably unstable coalition) was greeted as the dawning of a new era.
Each year, the tropics are battered by up to 40 hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones, while floods and landslides occur everywhere in numbers too great to keep track of.
Aftershocks, rain and landslides are hampering aid efforts and souring drinking water, but survivors want more from authorities.
Aerial photographs showed great swaths of slum dwellings flattened or swept away by landslides. Times, Sunday Times
In other words, Labour would have had a landslide election victory in 1997 even if no tactical vote had been cast.
The SNP candidate won by a landslide .
The television station kept airing exit polls, claiming that the party had scored a landslide victory in both the parliamentary and local elections.
Soldiers and rescue workers battled to recover the bodies and help survivors but were hampered by floods and landslides. Times, Sunday Times
The rhyolites and other large-scale blocks of gabbro and schist are interpreted as large landslides from the Caledonian nappes forming the depositional substrate and faulted margins of these basins.
He won the general in a landslide because he ran in a safely Republican district against a delusional Democrat with no campaign.
Head a mile south to Gros Ventre Road, where you'll turn left and travel a winding 11 miles to Gros Ventre landslide, the result of a 1925 slide that sent 50 million cubic yards of debris across a valley, blocking the Gros Ventre River and forming Lower Slide Lake. Jackson Hole
Mud, debris and knee-high slush from landslides blocked roads, cutting off many remote villages.
The doctors thought he had been in some sort of a landslide or a building collapse.
Meanwhile, work has yet to start on the Calderdale side of the border, where a landslide above the road has buckled the tarmac and pushed over fence posts.
She was devastated and traumatised in the aftermath of the Pullathomas landslide.
If Labour wins its expected second landslide it will mark the end of a century of Conservative hegemony.
In two mayoral elections over the past month in such towns, the pro-nuclear incumbents won landslide elections over anti-nuclear opponents. Living by Reactors, Japanese Are Split
They haven't achieved such a swing since its landslide victory in 1945.
Even when it was discovered that the land was unstable and prone to landslide, the squatters remained.
It is also no good imagining that landslide victories are any guide to legitimacy.
Flash flooding caused bridges to collapse and landslides are blocking roads to devastated coastal villages.
In several states the measure passed by landslide proportions - 86% to 14% in Mississippi.
Geological problems such as landslides, quicksand, cave-in were persistent through the entire process of construction, and we have built a 5,800-meter-long tunnel in a stratum known as tuff, a type of rock composed of compacted volcanic ash, which is the world's first of the kind," Shen said. The Times of India
She was expected to win by a landslide.
Hundreds of villages have been swept away by rain, flash floods and landslides. Times, Sunday Times
His landslide election victories, and his personal popularity in Middle England, made him look unassailable.
Gorton rode into the Senate in 1980 on the heels of the Reagan landslide, defeating that old liberal warhorse, Warren Magnuson.
Hawaii had massive turnout in "landslide" victory ... In Texas, students march 7.3 miles for the right to vote
Initial rescue efforts were hampered by a lack of heavy equipment and by landslides triggered by the initial earthquake.
He lost the May 15 election by a landslide in rural and urban areas of Ethiopia.
A seven-year-old boy was found dead after a landslide engulfed a block of flats.
Intense rainfall in the south Kerry area completely gouged out a section of road between Kilgarvan and Bantry, as well as causing large landslides and rockfall over a mile-long stretch.
Perhaps the most common medium for landslides is colluvium — basically particles of weathered rock in the process of becoming soil. The Liquid Earth
Turns out she 'chomped' down just the wrong way and it was a landslide of pain from then on out. The Boobityville Horror
As the melting ice weakens the mountains, Switzerland is already experiencing more rockfalls, landslides, and mudflows, but things could get much worse.
As the melting ice weakens the mountains, Switzerland is already experiencing more rockfalls, landslides, and mudflows, but things could get much worse.
The NLD won the 1990 general election by a landslide but has since been blocked from coming to power.
That did not stop the Conservatives winning the 1983 general election by a landslide. Times, Sunday Times
Further study of sand on an incline could help geologists understand landslides and mudflows - cases where rocks and dirt flow down rough surfaces.
Landslide advisories have been posted in eight Los Angeles counties.
Landslides often develop in pebbly clay slopes as toe cutting or surface loading.
There is no need to recount where one candidate has won by a landslide.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger looks at the camera in a ludicrous Mr. Freeze outfit and growls, "Eets tahm to keek ice," I am bowled over by a landslide of revelations: That someone had to write that line, thinking it was good enough to be on the big screen. "A Good Argument"
While not a landslide, Trudeau's victory was conclusive.
Despite this, liberals won a virtual landslide at elections last October.
A dead George Washington would win by a landslide against any opposing candidate.
the landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote
The storm lashed the south of the country with torrential rain yesterday, triggering flash floods and landslides. Times, Sunday Times
That landslide surged into nearby Spirit Lake, triggering a megatsunami some 853 feet high. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Digging is not without its hazards - landslides or rockfall are a serious hazard in some cases and may require properly engineered shoring.
Still, it was not until 1996 that the government began to identify specific areas threatened by potential mudflows and landslides.
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His popularity ensured he won by a landslide in the 1998 presidential elections.
Typically the ‘wet’ landslides occur in or above narrow gorges, and have limited preservation potential due to the major fluvial incision into the mass waste products.
The main risk is that landslides caused by torrential rain could really pose a threat to people, particularly in the rural areas. Times, Sunday Times
AT least 20 people were killed in floods and landslides after a typhoon hit Japan at the weekend. The Sun
He was the Prime Minister who had won two landslide elections and was already in his third term. Times, Sunday Times
If Labour wins its expected second landslide it will mark the end of a century of Conservative hegemony.
Since then, the mountainous county has been prone to mudflows and landslides triggered by torrential rains.
He won the election by a landslide. Times, Sunday Times
That did not stop the Conservatives winning the 1983 general election by a landslide. Times, Sunday Times
The second law can be applied to the prediction of creep failure, such as rockslides, colluvial-deposit landslides and loess landslides as well as clay landslides with locked patches.
‘Rainfall in the mountains means landslides and flooding in the valleys,’ he says.
Aerial photographs showed great swaths of slum dwellings flattened or swept away by landslides. Times, Sunday Times
The National League for Democracy pulled off a landslide victory.
Other natural phenomena also can bury a site, including sandstorms and landslides.
The railway was plagued early on by frequent landslides and washouts, especially during the severe rainy season of 1979.
The good Senator needs time off to recuperate from the landslide loss. McCain to vote against Sotomayor
In the latest landslide, a number of large pieces remained intact before hitting the ground.
After that, she stood for the school board elections, and won by a landslide.
His party won a landslide victory in the elections.
He was imprisoned a year before the NLD won a landslide election victory in 1990 only to be denied power by the generals.
After the landslide, volunteers worked in relays to rescue people buried under the rubble.
Bolivia and Ecuador are also threatened by glacier melt and Colombia's costal and riverside cities are being wiped out by floods and landslides - disasters that are only expected to get worse, according to a study by the Pew Center on Climate Change. Glacier melt in Peru becomes more than a climate issue
Generally the incumbent wins preferred PM, even if they're heading for a landslide loss and the voting intention polls point to that loss.
The National League for Democracy pulled off a landslide victory.
The news that Sachin Tendulkar has been voted the greatest cricketer of all time, by a landslide in an Australian newspaper poll, would have, until recently, elicited from me a kind of wincing, squinting chafing at the cerebral lobe that controls the urge to enter into ill-advised and unwinnable contrarian debates. Why a Sachin Tendulkar is my signature air-cricket shot
It added the poor tend to live in areas that are more prone to natural disasters such as flooding and landslides, or near heavily polluting factories, dumps and hazardous-waste sites.
Each year, the tropics are battered by up to 40 hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones, while floods and landslides occur everywhere in numbers too great to keep track of.
There are ways to protect roads from landslides, including building tunnels by hillsides, placing mats to secure earth, digging large ditches by the sides of roads which can divert flows away, and even re-routing roads.
In Hocheng district, a remote mountain area, 600 pigs were buried under landslides up to 3m deep.
Natural hazards: periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides, volcanic activity; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, sandstorms The 2001 CIA World Factbook
The National Party won by a landslide.
Landslide hazard has its own characteristics, which varied with geological environment , economical process and human engineering.
The epicenter of the Nov. 3 trembler was about 75 miles north of Anchorage, causing multiple landslides and road closures, but minimal damage and amazingly few injuries and no deaths.
It’s those elections, ultimately, that are the most important reason Bushism is likely to endure, at least as a pole star for Republican strategy: the strong showing in 2000, when nearly every economic indicator suggested a landslide for Al Gore; the sweeping win in 2002 — an off-year election, when the sitting president’s party historically loses seats; and the victory over John Kerry in 2004, despite plummeting public support for the Iraq War. It’s His Party
Tropical Storm Gustav torrential rains trigging serious flooding and landslides that have killed 11 people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2008
The storm lashed the south of the country with torrential rain yesterday, triggering flash floods and landslides. Times, Sunday Times
The same can be said of rock falls and landslides.
But to think of this as a straightforward political landslide is to misunderstand the tragic paradox of Japanese politics. Times, Sunday Times
Their handiwork exacerbated run-off and made homeowners more vulnerable to floods and landslides.
Finally, digging slope toe was of the inducing factors to the landslide.
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
Greg Von Doersten for The Wall Street Journal The Gros Ventre landslide is the result of a 1925 slide that sent 50 million cubic yards of debris across a valley, blocking the Gros Ventre River and forming Lower Slide Lake. A Mountain Escape
She would win a historic landslide. The Sun
Floods and landslides have hit many cities and towns across the country since December during this delayed rainy season, leaving dozens of people drowned or buried under mudslides and rockfalls.
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
This landslide material was then embayed by lava when the central caldera was flooded.
It turned roads into unnavigable debris fields, and triggered floods and landslides that left communities deluged and cut off. Times, Sunday Times
One reservation - let's don't overpromote the place and creat a landslide. �Bienvenidos! Welcome!
She was devastated and traumatised in the aftermath of the landslide.
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
The earthquake triggered submarine landslides that dislodged hundreds of cubic kilometers of sediment on the continental slope.
He'd win by a landslide. Times, Sunday Times
Above the direct destruction, enormous quantities of mud was moved by floodwaters and landslides, entire hilltops changing places, and rivers changing course, shifting sandbanks.
Premier for the second time after a landslide election victory last year, he seems intent on ensuring that he does not lose again. Times, Sunday Times
Police said the landslide had swept seven houses some 30 meters downhill in the hilly residential area of Candi after a retaining wall broke early on Saturday.
The landslide and debris flow based on plagioclase coincidently locate in ringed mountains.
On that fateful night a disastrous landslide wrecked havoc on their scenic community.
A slab of rock and earth about the size of a minibus crashed into another terrace of homes during the landslide. Times, Sunday Times
Soldiers and rescue workers battled to recover the bodies and help survivors but were hampered by floods and landslides. Times, Sunday Times
The party moved from a landslide majority with 400 seats in 1906 to a rump of 40 MPs just eighteen years later.
Kuo said the slope remained stable during Mindulle because a permeable structure consisting of large stones wrapped in gabions, or metal cylinders, prevented any landslides.
Kenya's coverage of the campaign has been extensive and the pundits all predict a landslide. Times, Sunday Times
A hurricane can tear down houses, cause 3 landslides and flooding and leave millions without electricity.
The viewers are also enlightened about the checklists used by scientists to determine whether a site is landslide-prone or not.
With such a network in place, it should be possible to detect precursory displacements and to provide a timely warning of any impending landslide.
They have made no progress between their landslide defeat in the 1997 election and their second defeat in 2001.
The house was buried beneath a landslide.
When the party won a landslide election in 1984, the country was ready for reform.
Now he is striking fear into them after his landslide victory in the Republicans primary on Sunday. Times, Sunday Times
On that fateful night a disastrous landslide wreaked havoc on their scenic community.
The reviviscence of accumulation landslide along bedrock surface is a common geological hazard.
Egypt is susceptible to periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, and sandstorms. Egypt
The January 2009 scare showed engineers that something was happening inside the abutment, which is part of an ancient landslide that fell off McDonald Ridge above the dam. The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE
Combine with numerical analysis method, the connected predicting mode that first predicts tunnel deformation then landslide disaster is proposed.
The Laborites most likely to lose seats are New Labor loyalists swept in the landslides of 1997 and 2001.
The area has entered an anxious era of landslides since the calamitous landslides of 1978.
The criteria for eligibility were extreme hardship, serious injury, damage to their homes, or bereavement directly as a result of the landslide.

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