Sentence examples for incumbency by from inspiring English sources

Mr. Weinstock's argument boils down to this: Since our incumbent legislators retain their incumbency by accepting what amount to enormous bribes to act on behalf of their moneyed constituents, why not let those moneyed interests bribe the challengers as well?

He also took full advantage of his incumbency, by filling the airwaves with advertisements extolling the government's purported achievements using dubious statistics.

Democratic and Republican strategists alike have warned that Bush risks losing the power of the incumbency by coming down to the level of his challenger.

And at his rally here, Mr. Gore took advantage of a perk of incumbency by referring to recent flood damage in Miami and the federal government's disaster aid.

This would entrench their incumbencies by leaving their challengers virtually inaudible.

But they think they can hold off Democrats with the advantages of incumbency and by producing legislation that appeals to their conservative base and the business community while propelling what they say is a thriving, underappreciated economy.

It foresees an Obama incumbency marked by terrorist attacks on American cities, rampant crime as guns are confiscated, a nuclear attack on Israel and the Boy Scouts' disbanding to avoid court-empowered gay leaders.

This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to compare the incumbency advantage enjoyed by freshmen and non-freshmen incumbents.

But despite his energetic efforts (over 30,000 leaflets delivered in the past two weeks, he boasts in his party's frenetic office) and the incumbency advantage enjoyed by the MP, Stephen Mosley, the Tories trail Labour by 11 points in the constituency, according to a poll published by Lord Ashcroft, a Conservative peer, on March 17th.In this section What will move the needle?

But history also teaches that reserve-currency status is not a natural monopoly, protected by incumbency and inertia.

It is the bitter feeling of losing despite the exposure and power garnered by incumbency, the free mailings to constituents and the experience of having been successful in past elections.