Hamas is well aware of the shock that its victory has produced.

Inevitably, Wahhabi Islamists did best.

The collapse of the country for which she lived underscores her overwhelming sense of tragedy.

On this condition, Brown agreed to give Blair a clear run.

The overwhelming victory of the British played a role in eventual loss of their thirteen American colonies.

Since his sweeping re election, he has been surprisingly modest and magnanimous.

Her second sweeping proposal, the withdrawal of voting rights in the Council, was abandoned at the Council s recent meeting in Brussels.

Hasina won office in 2009 after a landslide victory in an election that was free from fraud.

I should like to invite the Member States to lend their overwhelming support, as before, by voting in favour of the draft resolution.

And globalization has left over 2 billion people behind people who bear the brunt of conflict, of disease, of grinding poverty.

Last year at TED we aimed to try to clarify the overwhelming complexity and richness that we experience at the conference in a project called Big Viz.

Gaza is usually viewed in terms of Hamas s overwhelming support there, but the reality is much different.

NEW YORK The Congress Party s unexpected landslide in India s general election was greeted with euphoria.

Various Iranian spokesmen have begun threatening Israel not only with a massive response to any potential attack, but also with a preemptive strike.

But much more important was what the fascist and authoritarian regimes shared all were beneficiaries of a sweeping collapse of the legitimacy of democratic politics.

Vladimir Putin s massive electoral triumph in this week s Duma elections has put the lie to that notion.

Having benefited from overwhelming political rejection of Fatah, Hamas will now be judged by how it uses its new authority.

The dangerous correlation between grinding poverty and alienation from government as a veritable source of political instability on the continent leaves much to be desired.

Or consider Tony Blair s landslide victory in 2001, when Labour won 40 of the vote with turnout of 60 .

If there is a monster underground, it is the crushing psychological remoteness that begins to hit every member of the team once you cross about three days inbound from the nearest entrance.

Every day in our region of Central America and the Caribbean, our people face threats to their human security from AIDS, drug trafficking, trafficking in human persons, crushing poverty and growing inequality.

The feedback from several voters was that we had won handily because we had the arguments and the evidence, whereas our opponents had assertions and invective.

Hamas entered electoral politics only recently, but its massive victory was preceded by wide success in municipal elections.

The plan also entails considerable strategic risks, which, probably more than the prospect of uprooted settlements, account for the large no by Likud members.

Her overwhelming triumph has vindicated her belief that ordinary Bangladeshis want a secular and stable future for their country one that, in contrast to Pakistan, is characterized by warm relations with their giant neighbor, India.

In his conquest of the Maghreb, he took the coastal cities of Bugia and Tingi, overwhelming what had once been the Roman province of Mauretania Tingitana where he was finally halted.

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.

So when you hear about corruption, don't just feel that nothing is being done about this that you can't operate in any African country because of the overwhelming corruption. That is not the case.

While most of the Court's analysis focused on domestic considerations, the Justices also invoked a legal brief filed by the European Union that described the overwhelming disapproval of the practice in the world community.

The massive victory of Hamas in the Palestinian parliamentary elections stunned much of the world, but the outcome should not have been so surprising.

LONDON Within hours of US President Barack Obama s re election last month, a powerful belief took hold overwhelming support from Latino voters had helped to secure his victory.

Most mainstream scholars believe that, among the various contributing factors, Epidemic disease was the overwhelming cause of the population decline of the American natives because of their lack of immunity to new diseases brought from Europe.

Top climate scientist James Hansen tells the story of his involvement in the science of and debate over global climate change. In doing so he outlines the overwhelming evidence that change is happening and why that makes him deeply worried about the future.

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.

JOHANNESBURG Morgan Tsvangirai s withdrawal from the presidential run off scheduled for June 27, and his decision to seek the protection of the Dutch embassy in Pretoria, has secured for Zimbabwe s President Robert Mugabe a Pyrrhic victory.

OSAKA Three months after the Democratic Party of Japan s landslide general election victory, the new administration s foreign and security policy appears to be increasingly at odds with that of the United States.

Various Iranian spokesmen have begun threatening Israel not only with a massive response to any potential attack, but also with a preemptive strike. Israel would not merely be punished for any attack, they say it would be annihilated.

China s increasing assertiveness in staking its claims contributed to the landslide victory of the defense minded Liberal Democrats in Japan, and to the conservative Park Geun hye s election as South Korea s first ever female president.

The massive victory of Hamas in the Palestinian parliamentary elections stunned much of the world, but the outcome should not have been so surprising. Indeed, Hamas s moment of triumph is part of a growing regional pattern.

Of course, under the single seat constituency system, minor parties in Japan are at a distinct disadvantage. Indeed, a landslide victory on the scale of Abe s may very well lead to some of them completely disappearing from political life.

But, after his landslide election victory last month, Abe told the newspaper Sankei that he would seek to replace the landmark 1995 statement issued by a Socialist prime minister with a forward looking statement, the content of which he did not describe.

PARIS At the very moment China was getting a gold medal in diplomacy for the success of the opening ceremony in Beijing, Russia earned a red card for the extreme and disproportionate violence of its military intervention in Georgia.

This culturally desiccated world is much more alien than the red desert of the Martian landscape that Tereshkova and her cosmonaut friends including her husband dreamed of in their youth. The collapse of the country for which she lived underscores her overwhelming sense of tragedy.

Violence in Thailand s predominantly Muslim south seemed to dent his ambitions last year, but his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party s landslide victory last February gave his bid for regional leadership a new lease on life.

The death of General Augusto Pinochet, Chile s former military dictator, provides perhaps an appropriate end for a year that saw the Latin American left return to glory, a revival that Hugo Chavez s overwhelming reelection in Venezuela is but the strongest sign.