Sentence examples for primary to challenge from inspiring English sources

The endless redistricting has also confounded the three candidates vying in the Republican primary to challenge Mr. Watt.

Instead of seeking re-election, he intends to enter the Democratic mayoral primary to challenge Michael R. Bloomberg next November.

On the night Lugar lost, Democrats voted in the more moderate candidate in their Wisconsin primary to challenge Governor Scott Walker in a recall election.

In Virginia, Robert Hurt, a state senator, easily won a contested Republican primary to challenge Representative Tom Perriello, a freshman Democrat, in November.

Janine A. Parry, a political science professor at the University of Arkansas, said Republicans in her state expressed a clear preference for the experienced Mr. Boozman when they chose him in an eight-way primary to challenge Senator Lincoln.

The Democratic primary to challenge Handel this year has been sleepier, to say the least.

This year, Mr. Harrison and another Democrat, City Councilman Domenic M. Recchia Jr. of Brooklyn, are in a primary race to challenge Mr. Fossella.

Fiorina won the primary Tuesday to challenge Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer.

O'Malley was thus nominated by the Democratic Party, unopposed on the primary ballot, to challenge incumbent Bob Ehrlich in the November 2006 election.

Our primary objective is to challenge the government's passive approach.

Both sides — but particularly tea party conservatives and advocacy groups — have threatened to try to stage primary challenges to unseat incumbents.