After the landslide election victory, in July 1994, of President Lukashenko, who continues to enjoy a strong base of support, the country has seen a decline in parliamentary power in tandem with a steady strengthening of the executive branch.

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. Rising regional tensions also provided the backdrop to US President Barack Obama s trip to Southeast Asia shortly after his re election.

In the first round of the parliamentary election, the UMP won a record high 40 of the vote. 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.

It'll be a Bensinger landslide!

Traffic was blocked by a landslide.

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. The release of Anwar Ibrahim soon afterwards raised the new premier s prestige further as a leader who could heal intra Malay, and intra Muslim, conflicts.

By year apos s end the Government had announced only a partial opposition election victory in

The recent landslide victory (with a huge turnout) for the Awami League in Bangladesh s first election in seven years, after two years of a military backed caretaker government, has moved the country to the forefront of the battle between secular democrats and Islamists that is now underway across South Asia. The election was a credit to the country's democratic yearnings and I say that as the chairman of the European Parliament's short term election observation mission to Bangladesh.

But the most epochal events of the last week took place in two of Asia s great democracies India and Japan. Narendra Modi s landslide victory in India s general election was not only a huge personal triumph for the son of a tea seller, but may well mark a decisive break with India s traditional inward looking policies.

I also wish to extend warm congratulations to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on her victory in the presidential election.

On 22 May, political prisoners in Thayawaddy Prison staged a hunger strike to mark the eighth anniversary of the 1990 elections, in which the National League for Democracy (NLD) had won a landslide victory.

And we proved it in the election for the Sicilian parliament, with a welldeserved victory by the people's party.

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. For most of the last decade, the DPJ was not seen as a viable alternative to the LDP, although they appeared to form a pseudo two party system.

In recent weeks, the hyper nationalist Ollanta Humala, a clone of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, was defeated in Peru, the conservative Alvaro Uribe won a landslide victory in Colombia, with 62 of the vote, and Andrés Manuel López Obrador has fallen behind in Mexico s July 2 presidential election. All of these isolated developments seemingly contradict the leftward trend in Latin America.

In July, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) religiously conservative but economically liberal won a landslide in parliamentary elections called after the military balked at seeing Gül become president. That victory, combined with Gül s election, confirm the AKP s emergence as a party of realignment, and that, despite an upsurge of xenophobic nationalism, Turks wanted to integrate with the European Union.

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.

It is in this light that we see the landslide victory of 19 July 1997 as the final coming together of all of our people in a national embrace of unity to give vibrancy to the liberated national soul.

She's buried under some kind of landslide of fear and guilt.

The relatively successful election in Iraq is a major victory for democracy, but not necessarily for liberal reform in the Middle East.

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. Only two other parties the Republican People s Party (CHP) with 21 and the National Movement Party (MHP) with 14 surpassed the 10 threshold for representation in parliament.

Instead the AKP obtained its landslide victory a major achievement after 13 years of uninterrupted rule by siphoning voters from its competitors. The party received nearly five million more votes than it did in June, corresponding to a 20 increase in its popularity.

Another project involves landslide mapping using SAR in the Al Zarqa river basin.

It looks as if the whole state's gonna make it a Wooley landslide.

The victory of the opposition in the parliamentary election of 2002 attests to the potential that may be unleashed with a victory by democratic forces in the presidential election. As a result of the policies initiated in 2000, and particularly the struggle against oligarchic omnipotence, Ukraine's economy has been growing for five years in a row.

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. Though India had experienced annual real GDP growth of more than 8 for several years, growth has slowed since 2010, to less than 5 in 2013, owing to a populist shift in policies dictated by Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi.

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.

Victory!

Victory!

Victory!

WASHINGTON, D.C. 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.

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

Verily We! a victory We have given thee, a manifest victory.

Verily We! a victory We have given thee, a manifest victory.

Yet the AKP s electoral victory heralds two specific dangers for the future of Turkey s democracy. The first is the persistence of intense political polarization in the run up to the presidential election in August and the parliamentary election in the first half of 2015.

AMMAN The behavior of Jordan s Royal Court in the days following the official announcement of the victory of the Muslim Brotherhood s Mohamed Morsi in Egypt s presidential election tells an intriguing story. At first, Jordan s King Abdullah II hesitated to sign a long sought after election law.

Erdoğan s Pyrrhic Victory

The Vultures Victory

Israel s Centrist Victory

V for victory!

A great victory.

Here's your victory.

To victory, gentlemen!

PRINCETON To Western eyes, Middle East politics have again been stood on their head. Iran s theocratic mullahs allowed the election of Hassan Rowhani, a man who announced in his first speech as President elect that his victory is the victory of wisdom, moderation, and awareness over fanaticism and bad behavior.

But the first priority for Abe s second government is to revive the Japanese economy. That task has already begun, and the LDP s recent election victory will strengthen Abe s ability to complete it.

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. Both hope that showing that China and Taiwan can get along without too much trouble will bring electoral benefits for the Nationalists.