Another mark of his Soviet mindset is that only an overwhelming victory will do.
Tory leader William Hague hails his party's overwhelming victory in the European elections as vindication of his opposition to the euro.
In 1995, Mr Fujimori stood for re-election and won an overwhelming victory.
In 1992, voters in the Seychelles gave Socialist President Albert Rene an overwhelming victory in the island's first multi-party poll in 16 years.
Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party won an overwhelming victory in 1990 in the first free elections in the country in nearly 30 years.
So unless Nationwide scores an overwhelming victory against its rebels, it is likely that the remaining building societies will be picked off, one by one.
But Rafsanjani -- a key politician in the Islamic republic -- has become increasingly vocal about the elections results that gave hardline incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad an overwhelming victory.
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But Williamson (1-2) later found himself among the New Zealand wicket-takers as the Black Caps polished off an overwhelming victory which included six slip catches, Taylor pouching four of them.
Ahmadinejad's overwhelming victory should not have surprised anyone, Ghadiri said, noting that a poll published in the United States three weeks before the June 12 elections showed Ahmadinejad with a commanding lead.
Following the swearing-in, he used his first address to defend the official results of the election - which gave him an overwhelming victory - and criticised Western powers' response to the disputed poll.
Labour's overwhelming victory in 1997 was clearly to quite a large extent a personal vote for Mr Blair, and the size of his majority has protected him during his first term in government.
The overwhelming Sandinista victory in the municipal elections does not reflect such sentiment and thus suspicions of fraud are justified.
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This violence-wracked nation has just delivered an overwhelming electoral victory to presidential candidate Alvaro Uribe Velez, who has vowed to wage an aggressive war against Colombia's powerful guerrilla armies.
Ahmadinejad might well offer a few thoughts on his overwhelming presidential reelection victory on June 12, and his techniques for handling partisan opposition.
This is perhaps why he decided just five months after his overwhelming re-election victory to recall parliament from its summer recess to ram the bill through in a matter of days.
The overwhelming approval represents a personal victory for Hummel, a Philadelphia-based Airbus captain, who has championed the agreement despite vocal opposition from pilot leaders, often viewed as hardliners opposed to cooperation with management, in Charlotte and Philadelphia.
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President Barack Obama's November victory was fueled, in part, by overwhelming support from the nation's Hispanic, Asian and African-American communities.
But Lee Briers' clever kicking was the key to Wolves' victory, the veteran half-back proving an overwhelming winner of the Lance Todd Trophy.
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