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What does landslide mean?

landslide

a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff an overwhelming electoral victory Roosevelt defeated Hoover in a landslide

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Simple sentences

Traffic was blocked by a landslide.
That landslide produced a lot of misery.
Seiji Toda told Japan's TBS television he was shocked and felt helpless when he saw that his restaurant in Hiroshima had been destroyed by a landslide.

Movie subtitles

You see, there's a landslide.
There's a landslide and floods.
And there was a landslide.
It'll be a Bensinger landslide!
It looks as if the whole state's gonna make it a Wooley landslide. More in a minute.
Then the door slammed shut and started the landslide.
There was a landslide an hour or so ago.
She's buried under some kind of landslide of fear and guilt.
And so will I win my election by a landslide.
It's a landslide.
Look! A landslide!
A landslide!
A landslide.
I wonder if you're right about Landslide.
Which one is Landslide?
A landslide?
It'll be a Bensinger landslide! - Quiet!
It looks as if the whole state's gonna make it a Wooley landslide.
It's a landslide!
A landslide, I think.
It was like a landslide, which one laughs at in the beginning.
You better get them back, otherwise there'll be a landslide. - Landslide? - Now, Mr Birnley, I.
There was a landslide there about a month ago.
Huntzinger thinks it may be a landslide for me.
The road was cut off by a landslide.
Attention, please. This train will stop here for a while due to a landslide.
There was a landslide and the road may be out.
There will be a complete landslide against any further development of the Daleks.
There's a landslide 7 km up the road.
You'll have to go back towards the highway and as you approach it there's a road going left blocked by a landslide.
If this landslide isn't stopped, it will bury real jazz.
But there has been a landslide of the mountain and I don't think you can pass.
She got caught in a landslide and nearly killed.
There was a flood, maybe, or a landslide.

News and current affairs

A recent BBC poll of 22 countries found that if the world could vote, Obama would win in a landslide.
TEL AVIV: The landslide victory of the leader of the Labour Party, General Ehud Barak, in the May 17th elections in Israel means not only a new government and a new foreign policy.
And the ruling elite opens a number of parliamentary seats to a popular vote, only to be shocked by a landslide opposition win.
In this context, Sharon gained two landslide election victories as a hardliner, but implemented a moderate policy, including a full withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
Indeed, the results raised eyebrows, even of those analysts who did not expect an Islamist landslide.
The Israelis discerned Abbas's weakness early on, and once Hamas was elected in a landslide, had little incentive to help him despite the prodding of the United States.
Its deep divisions meant that Fatah candidates split the vote and ensured a Hamas landslide.
The referendum is the result of the landslide victory by the Scottish National Party in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.
While voters denied the UMP a landslide victory in the second round, its overall win meant that the governing party retained its legislative majority for the first time in 29 years.
President Kim Dae Jung's opponents romped to victory in a landslide that suggests the unpopularity of his policies.
Aristide had been elected President in an indisputable landslide.
Nor were the results of the legislative elections in 2000 in doubt: Aristide's party had also won in a landslide.
Iranian reformers had tried (to no avail) since the landslide 1997 election of President Mohammed Khatami, to change the system from within.
Iranians yearn for reform, reflected in President Khatami's two landslide electoral victories.
OSAKA - Yesterday's landslide general-election victory by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) terminated the one-party-dominated system that the catch-all Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has controlled almost without interruption since 1955.
Tony Blair's re-election in Britain last year was a landslide victory for New Labor, giving his party an unassailable majority in Britain's House of Commons.
The party's results have been all but preordained: landslide victories and majority governments.
Instead the AKP obtained its landslide victory - a major achievement after 13 years of uninterrupted rule - by siphoning voters from its competitors.
Despite a landslide electoral victory for his Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) last September, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigned only 262 days after taking office.
Indeed, a landslide victory on the scale of Abe's may very well lead to some of them completely disappearing from political life.
Modi won a landslide victory in an election that reflected the Indian public's disappointment with the policies and performance of the previous government, led by the Indian National Congress.
After his two landslide victories, he thought he could have it all.
One year after he was re-elected in a landslide, Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been forced to dissolve the National Assembly and call a snap election.
First, they are clearly worried that the Kuomintang, which lost last year's local elections in a landslide, will lose the general election in January as well.
In the general election in March 2004 - the first since Mahathir stepped down after 22 years in power - moderate Muslims helped Abdullah Badawi to a landslide victory.
In April 2007, Yar'Adua won a disputed landslide presidential victory.
George McGovern, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1972, proposed to end the war, which by then was unpopular, yet lost the election in a landslide.

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