Of course the 20th century analogue (POTS) phone companies, such as BT, hope they can remain our incumbent communication providers by [slowly] transitioning their 18m users over to VoIP based services such as the BT SoftPhone and BT Fusion.
And akin to Facebook staring down the barrel of WhatsApp, sometimes monied incumbents pull the trigger on large deals to ensure that they remain monied incumbents.
She won handily in a year when every incumbent remained in office and Republicans maintained the majority in both houses.
Cowboys winger Kyle Feldt was overlooked after his error-riddled display in the same clash – instead Maroons selectors remained loyal to incumbent winger Dane Gagai, who plays for NRL cellar dwellers Newcastle.
It remains incumbents' standard model.
Twenty years after Mr. Clements's first win, Republicans enjoyed a clean sweep of statewide posts, replacing the remaining Democratic incumbents in the 1998 election.
The incumbent president remained in place and appointed a first vice president, selected from the rebel group, in accordance with the terms of the peace agreement.
While I was on post, for three days closely monitoring a soldier suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, a result of what he saw overseas, I wondered why our incumbent senator remained silent when our Veteran's administration, right here in Texas, was deliberately misdiagnosing our soldiers for lack of funds to provide the right treatment.
Some Republican incumbents, meanwhile, remained in jeopardy of losing their seats, as the races stayed too close to call on Wednesday.
And public financing of campaigns and other measures that would reduce the advantages of incumbency remain generally unpopular (among incumbents, who would — after all — need to vote for such reforms).
