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

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

WASHINGTON, D.C. President Vladimir Putin turned Russia parliamentary election into a referendum on himself and won by a landslide.

Iranian reformers had tried (to no avail) since the landslide 1997 election of President Mohammed Khatami, to change the system from within.

In June 1989, the opposition won the parliamentary election in a landslide. It was impossible to form a government without its participation.

In 2000, the new acting president defeated his opponents in the presidential election on 26 March, and won a landslide 4 years later.

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.

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.

The landslide election of Shinzo Abe, who campaigned on a robust defense platform, may well lead to a serious Japanese push to invigorate the country s military capabilities.

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.

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.

Myanmar voters celebrated in the streets while netizens on Facebook are expressing their elation over the by election results which saw an unprecedented landslide victory for the opposition.

Landslide victory for the HE Bobi Wine.

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.

Aristide had been elected President in an indisputable landslide.

The party went on to win in a landslide.

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.

In April 2007, Yar Adua won a disputed landslide presidential victory.

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.

Iranian reformers had tried (to no avail) since the landslide 1997 election of President Mohammed Khatami, to change the system from within. Iranians were initially hopeful, but after years of waiting in vain they grew impatient.

In what may be Turkey s most important political event since the republic was founded in the 1920 s, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has won a landslide parliamentary election victory, with around 47 of the vote.

MADRID Humbled by the Republicans landslide mid term election victory, US President Barack Obama will now need to negotiate every minor detail of his domestic agenda with a confrontational Congress at least until the next elections in 2012.

After his two landslide victories, he thought he could have it all.

Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was elected president on 10 December 1848 by a landslide.

Indeed, although it is difficult to say how large an impact the launch had on the result in Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party (of which I am a member, serving as Deputy Chair of the election campaign) won a landslide victory.

President Vladimir Putin turned Russia parliamentary election into a referendum on himself and won by a landslide. But, while he refuses to spell out his plans for remaining in power once his second term expires next spring, his economic policy is clear.

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.

The former deals with the behaviour of soil from a small scale to a landslide scale.

In 1687, parts of the mine collapsed in a landslide, creating an 100 m deep pit.

Human settlements in watersheds may modify hydraulic systems and destabilize slopes, thereby increasing flood and landslide hazards.

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

A recent BBC poll of 22 countries found that if the world could vote, Obama would win in a landslide.

Nor were the results of the legislative elections in 2000 in doubt Aristide's party had also won in a landslide.

When elections were held in Kosovo in October 2000, the LDK won a landslide victory with 58 of the vote.

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And the ruling elite opens a number of parliamentary seats to a popular vote, only to be shocked by a landslide opposition win.

Chancellor Angela Merkel is celebrating a landslide victory, with her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) having fallen just short of an outright parliamentary majority.

Elected in a landslide to clean up the political vices of the previous establishment, Chávez chose to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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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.

In Moscow, the presidential election coincided with the election of municipal leaders.

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