Sentence examples for on incumbent from inspiring English sources

Things are so bad that Liz Cheney is taking on incumbent Mike Enzi for the Senate seat in Wyoming.

Still, Mr. Hill sees taking on incumbent banks and other start-ups as part of the challenge of breaking into Britain's financial sector.

This summer Abbey Glass became the first customer of SBC's new unit that plans to take on incumbent carriers in at least 30 markets outside its traditional region -- nine of them by year's end.

For many liberal critics, the overwhelming defeat in Tuesday's primary of Greg Brannon, the Tea Party's preferred candidate to take on incumbent Democratic senator Kay Hagan, by Thom Tillis – an establishment favourite with a conservative track record in state politics – simply proves the radical right has been assimilated by the Republican hierarchy, not vanquished.

Meanwhile, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina won the Republican primary to take on incumbent Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer.

KashFlow, the feisty UK startup taking on incumbent players like Sage with its cloud-based accounting software for SMEs, has decided it's time to step on the gas.

This kind of redistricting is deeply undemocratic, making it hard to take on incumbents and their parties.

Such restrictions, wrote Justice Clarence Thomas, who once worked as an assistant attorney-general in Missouri, make it harder for unknown candidates to take on incumbents.

They also want someone who will be a loyal soldier and not take on incumbents in neighboring districts in 2012, should the Ninth District be eliminated.

Yet startups successfully take on incumbents every day with a sliver of the capital.

In order to take on incumbents such as ATI and S3, 3Dfx has recently launched a new integrated graphics card under the Velocity brand.