Sentence examples for make incumbent from inspiring English sources

North Carolina governor's race: Will Tar Heel voters make incumbent governor Pat McRory pay for signing the notorious House Bill 2, which allowed discrimination against transgender people in access to public bathrooms?

Management controls the flow of information to shareholders in a way that would make incumbent members of Congress green with envy.

Redistricting, which redraws congressional districts following the census every decade, ought to be designed to make districts more competitive and to make incumbents more accountable.

A second, related lesson is that less affinity for parties makes incumbent politicians less safe, generally.

Another possibility is that these companies looking to conquer the digital living room may just be making incumbent companies like Comcast, Sony and Samsung move more aggressively into this arena.

"I believe that IP-based services such as [Voice over Internet] should evolve in a regulation-free zone," he said at a recent hearing on the subject, even as he noted that such a fundamental change in technology makes incumbent telcos understandably nervous.

Redistricting makes incumbents more vulnerable, creates new seats, and often results in more retirements.

At the level of Congress, the diagnosis is pretty well understood: gerrymandering of Congressional districts makes incumbents safe in general elections but vulnerable in party primaries, where the most passionate voters decide the outcome.

In other words, being unpopular does not necessarily make an incumbent vulnerable to defeat.

Too much focus on official duties can make an incumbent look isolated and aloof.

It will hopefully close one chapter for the Bloody Sunday families and make it incumbent on the authorities to fully investigate all the unsolved killings from the Troubles.