Sentence examples for primary challenges and from inspiring English sources

One decided not to seek re-election, and two fended off primary challenges and will be up for re-election in November.

Yet a number of Republican incumbents -- including 35-year state Senate veteran Robert Littell, face primary challenges, and conservatives have decided to field candidates in an array of races.

In recent years, Mrs. Roukema has become a target for the conservative wing of her party, which almost unseated her in two primary challenges, and an outsider in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

If progressives aim to show they are a force to be reckoned with and to push the Democratic Party to the left, as my colleague wrote last week, the best way to do that would be to back progressive primary challenges, and in that case they should be calling for these senators' scalps.But that's probably not going to happen, for a number of reasons.

Mr. Singer, the fund's founder, helped bankroll the successful same-sex marriage push in New York two years ago, persuading Republicans in Albany that some of the party's top donors would be there to help defend them against primary challenges and attacks from same-sex marriage opponents.

Some may say I am tilting at the windmills of Tea Party orthodoxy in making these suggestions, but I believe that most Republican politicians would be sympathetic to them, if only they could overcome their fear of primary challenges and the loss of Wall Street money.

Ms. Tauscher had a token primary challenge and faces only a Libertarian candidate in November.

Five months later, she beat back a primary challenge, and then defeated two other candidates in the general election.

The Democratic incumbent faces no serious primary challenge and his re-election campaign already is well under way.

Ned Lamont, a Greenwich businessman, mounted an improbable primary challenge and won, though Mr. Lieberman became an independent and bested him in a November rematch to keep his seat.

She won votes from nearly ninety-six per cent of the delegates, preventing a primary challenge, and she struck a defiant note.