Adjective : the incumbent officers of the club. ,a duty incumbent upon me. ,incumbent upon the cool grass. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : The incumbent was challenged by a fusion candidate. From Dictionary.com.
The only job of all incumbents is to get re-elected. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Hoekstra: Admin. Must ‘Keep the Intelligence Committees Fully Informed of What They Are Doing’] Reference
Challenging incumbents is not just about winning, its also about scaring them. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Burner concedes to Reichert] Reference
Two-term incumbents are difficult to unseat, and Lincoln should not be underestimated. From Wordnik.com. [National Review Online] Reference
Grainger and Ainslie are single-term incumbents, while Lambert and Maxwell are former board members. From Wordnik.com. [theithacajournal.com -] Reference
Certain incumbents controlling large areas wanted them, not potential new entrants into those areas. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie] Reference
Congress out of Detroit are strong, long-term incumbents, but face uphill races because of family problems. From Wordnik.com. [detnews.com - Local] Reference
Like Cashell, council members Sharon Zadra and Dwight Dortch are two-term incumbents who plan to run in 2010. From Wordnik.com. [RGJ.com - Latest News] Reference
Senate challengers who go up against three-term incumbents - Democrats and Republicans - tend to get walloped. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
In Illinois last week, long-term incumbents were defeated in Democratic primaries-fresh evidence of the public's distemper. From Wordnik.com. [Can He Beat Bush?] Reference
Many people are telling me it will be Squadron, but I am always leery of long-term incumbents and their penchant for survival. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Gotham - grassroots news and activism for new yorkers] Reference
Barker is a freshman legislator, and first-term incumbents are considered more vulnerable to defeat than more-established candidates. From Wordnik.com. [Tennessean.com Dickson] Reference
Our congressional districts are gerrymandered, insulating almost all incumbents from the possibility of losing their reelection bids. From Wordnik.com. [zealotry] Reference
The two jury commissioner slots, held now by second-term incumbents Connell Taylor and Naomi Summerville, are up for election this year. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories @ The Derrick] Reference
It won't be "incumbents" -- it will be all Democrats and only Democrats. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories] Reference
First-term incumbents Ronnie Terrill, 2006 Big Hill Road, Jerry Little, 303 Oakwood Dr., and. From Wordnik.com. [The Richmond Register Homepage] Reference
"Protecting our incumbents is a top priority," said Joanne Peters of the Democratic. From Wordnik.com. [SplicedFeed] Reference
The folks who are having problems are the long-term incumbents that have been there. ". From Wordnik.com. [Home/News] Reference
Kennedy and Kerry were both such long-term incumbents that they became unbeatable here. From Wordnik.com. [Rasmussen: Coakley/Brown 50/41. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference
With Bell, Rogers, and Telus on one side (known as the incumbents) and Globalive (WIND). From Wordnik.com. [Tech News] Reference
Eventually the attackers gain so much share that the incumbents are the minority players. From Wordnik.com. [Who Will Be The YouTube Of Live Video?] Reference
AFTER we use our primaries and caucii to throw out any big-spending GOP incumbents, that is. From Wordnik.com. [The People Have Spoken. “Freedom First” - Erick’s blog - RedState] Reference
You say that Primaries are discouraged against incumbents, which is probably true, but it doesn't make it illegal. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Follow-up on Lieberman, Lamont, & Schlesinger] Reference
"You say that Primaries are discouraged against incumbents, which is probably true, but it doesn't make it illegal.". From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Follow-up on Lieberman, Lamont, & Schlesinger] Reference
But, according to Jenkins and others, the obvious challenge to incumbents is to play catch-up in the software-and-services department. From Wordnik.com. [RCR Wireless News >> Opinion] Reference
What the heck, then, are they trying to do today, other than limit competition for incumbents, which is the typical role of licensing?. From Wordnik.com. [Coyote Blog » 2005 » July] Reference
I think what we see is the change in the kind of incumbents in the future. From Wordnik.com. [Too Many Networks, Too Little Voice] Reference
Hillary and Rudy have been acting like they are the closest thing to the "incumbents" in their prospective races. From Wordnik.com. [Printing: Iowa Wrap up] Reference
We are far from the easy standard of work too often accepted by 'incumbents' in the opening years of the nineteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
The two remaining long term incumbents. From Wordnik.com. [cellular-news] Reference
Democrats, not "incumbents," will be punished at polls. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
"To some extent, this is the kind of political dilemma incumbents always face. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 4] Reference
First-term incumbents seeking second term. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - House overview] Reference
"incumbents" and multi-millionaires, we'll keep getting the shaft. From Wordnik.com. [Bipartisan Betrayal of Main Street, Bailout Hands "Victory" to Bush] Reference
When the bubble burst, Western incumbents were left holding a very expensive bag. From Wordnik.com. [TALK IS GETTING VERY CHEAP] Reference
But in 1992, 23 of the 25 congressional incumbents the NRA targeted for defeat won re-election. From Wordnik.com. [The Nra: It's Not Pro-Gun, It's 'Anti-Crime'] Reference
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