Sentence examples for incumbent of from inspiring English sources

A previous incumbent of the position was shot dead by his police bodyguard.

If I were a previous incumbent of his role, I would feel rather burned by that.

To say nothing of the incumbent, of whom, perhaps, the less said the better.

And that's without even mentioning the likely next incumbent of the Oval Office, Hillary Clinton..

What's fair to an incumbent, of course, may not be fair to a challenger.

In the House takeover years of 1994 by Republicans and 2006 by Democrats, no incumbent of either triumphant party lost.

The urban wheel has come full circle for Mr. Street, the powerful incumbent of the nation's fifth-largest city.

This year the remaining Senate seat is up for grabs, thanks to the retirement of the incumbent of 26 years, Kent Conrad.

In a run-off election, Mr Perkins defeated Joseph Smitherman, the incumbent of 36 years and a defender of segregation during the 1960s.

It was here, so the legend goes, that the gods created the imperial line that has led unbroken to Emperor Akihito, the present incumbent of the chrysanthemum throne.

As an incumbent of long standing and the leader of Yemen's largest and best-organised party, Mr Saleh was always going to be difficult to unseat.