Sentence examples for primary challenge in from inspiring English sources

But is he hurt enough to generate a real primary challenge in 1996?

Mr. Scott's reversal has set off rumbling about a possible primary challenge in 2014.

A sitting Republican congressman, Parker Griffith, was losing his primary challenge in Alabama.

Mr. Hoyt, who was first elected to the Assembly in 1992, is facing a competitive primary challenge in September.

Bruce may have been unusually agitated that night; when we met, he was facing a primary challenge in ten days.

The primary challenge in designing a case-control study is the appropriate selection of cases and controls.

In Arizona, Senator John McCain is facing a serious Republican primary challenge in what has been a difficult political year for him.

By acting to unify the nation, he would better be able to resist a primary challenge in 2004 from Senator Hillary Clinton.

Long-time Indiana Senator Dick Lugar was apparently too nice to Obama, so he received a successful primary challenge in 2012.

He just got into office, and he already faces a primary challenge in June and an election in November — if he runs, which most say is likely.

But he grew so disenchanted with Jimmy Carter that he bowed to a noisy "Draft Ted" movement and launched a primary challenge in 1980.