Sentence examples for primary challenges in from inspiring English sources

Those sentiments could stir primary challenges in Senate races in New Hampshire, Colorado, California and Illinois.

Of thirteen incumbents facing primary challenges in West Virginia this week, Kirkendoll was the only one who lost.

As the Bush team arrives in Washington, this will be one of its primary challenges in dealing with the new economy -- bringing more flexibility to competition policy while maintaining the rigor of the past.

A lot of black incumbents who supported Clinton now find themselves trying to explain how they ended up so disconnected from their constituents, and many are preparing for their strongest primary challenges in years.

In 1998 and again in 2000, Mr. Garrett was the cause of Ms. Roukema's lament as he pushed her through two tough primary challenges in a row, each time coming closer to unseating the dean of the state's congressional delegation.

He had faced primary challenges in the past in a district that includes towns like El Monte, Baldwin Park and Alhambra and remains safely Democratic in November, but this contest was especially bitter, dividing the local Hispanic elected establishment.

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.