The northern flank of the mountain collapsed, producing the largest landslide in recorded history.
In 1990, the previous time the generals had an election, the League won by a landslide. The junta prevented it taking power, but was mightily embarrassed.
Many more are missing after rushing waters sparked a deadly landslide and a river burst its Banks; uprooted trees and debris ploughed through the area.
One is 1979, when Margaret Thatcher ousted Labour after the Winter of Discontent; the other, which they fixate on in private, is 1997, when Tony Blair's new model Labour Party won its first landslide.
This landslide deposit pretty much rules out the idea that the deposits farther upstream are glacial outwash.
Jien Wen-ker, a 46-year-old plumber working in the village of Hsinkai, said a landslide there had buried 32 residents.
They allege that Moscow's veteran 73-year-old mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, has manipulated the vote in advance to ensure a landslide victory for his pro-Kremlin United Russia party.
Xue Ying lost her fiance to a landslide in the quake, while Yang Chun lost his wife and young son.
From the landslide investigation and data processing, the authors discussed the characteristics and distribution pattern of landslides, their formation conditions and mechanism, which are controlled with geological structures, lithological association, topography and rainfalls.
Engineers blast through debris hoping to drain the unstable lake formed during the landslide.
Since he was re-elected in a landslide in January, Mr Rajapaksa has sought to make good on a campaign promise to "create a society with good values and ethics".
9A landslide swept aside buildings at the village of Wangong village in Hanyuan county in Ya'an of southwest China's Sichuan province on July 27, 2010.
Her party won a landslide election in 1990, but the military government refused to recognize the results.
He won a landslide victory for the LDP in 2005 promising to privatise the postal service, and made some headway in freeing up the labour market.
The dam builders underestimate the risks of a catastrophic landslide.
A large landslide has recently occured.
