Sentence examples for challengers do not from inspiring English sources

But since most incumbents are re-elected, challengers do not have much chance anyway; most contributions go to incumbents, remember.

Two challengers do not oppose his re-election; the others are critics on the left and the right, but none have made significant inroads against his popularity and utter dominance of Russian government and politics, big business and the media.

The arrest and smear campaigns against activists who campaigned for women's rights to drive underscore the monarchy's attempt to ensure that potential challengers do not occupy new openings created by recent reform policies.

But generally speaking, incumbent presidents lose elections; challengers don't win them.

Challengers don't ask customers how the deal is going to get done, waiting for the customer to "coach" them.

If customers respond, as they invariably do, that the insights don't apply in their situation, Challengers don't back down.

"I would be shocked if over the course of the last 10 days Republican challengers don't try to make a major issue of this," said Steve Greenberg, a spokesman for the Siena Research Institute, whose recent polls have shown gains by Republican challengers for Senate seats.

This is highly unlikely, not because of lack of abilities, but rather because the challengers don't want to be banks.

Challengers don't have the luxury of running of positive, soft campaigns It's a recipe for guaranteed failure.

If the challengers don't succeed in winning, then there's no assurance that MF would do a deal even after the election.

But many Republican candidates — incumbents and challengers — did not budge.