landslide

Converse of object

• trigger: Eight people reportedly died in Boavista District when their homes collapsed due to a landslide triggered by the heavy rains.
• win: Labor doesn't need the Mail; it has won two landslides in the face of violent opposition from the rag.
• cause: He fires several missiles at the side causing a landslide which blocks the Hood's way.
• prevent: Only Andy Booth ( left ) from Aberdeen, with a 2-1 win over Tim Miles of Worthing, prevented a landslide.
• follow: The disaster followed landslides in neighboring East Java province earlier this week that killed at least 77 people.
• have: Tony Blair has rarely ruled as if he had a landslide.

Adjective modifier

• rotational: The plateaux margins are typically characterized slope failures that range from large rotational landslides to individual blockfalls.
• submarine: The trigger mechanisms that initiate submarine landslides in this area are not well understood.
• underwater: A huge underwater landslide produced the tsunami in question.
• ecological: Dr. Kirpotin told the magazine the situation was an " ecological landslide that is probably irreversible and is undoubtedly connected to climatic warming " .
• coastal: Problems arising from coastal landslides have been particularly serious during the 20th century.
• massive: Fortunately, the massive landslide higher up the valley had been cleared.

Modifies a noun

• victory: In the 1997 General Election a Labor landslide victory thrust Tony Blair into power.
• debris: In other places, landslide debris was strewn across the road barring the way.
• defeat: We have just suffered our second successive landslide election defeat.
• election: The British colony of Hong Kong is returned to China Labor under Blair wins landslide election victory British Gas enters the domestic electricity market.
• majority: In 2001, the Labor party was elected with a second landslide majority of 167 MPs.
• hazard: This study will complement ongoing work on the topographic controls on landslide hazards.

Noun used with modifier

• submarine: In other cases, such as the Storegga slide, the sediment slide forms a distinctive submarine landslide.
• election: After five years in office and two election landslides, New Labor is creating a crisis of democracy.