Sentence examples for right of incumbency from inspiring English sources

This business of the right of incumbency, which had been a sickening culture in this country, is finished and that's a marvellous event.

Sitting atop a worktable yesterday in the Yankee Stadium pressroom, where thousands of words are bound to be written measuring Jeter's value against Alex Rodriguez's, Jeter calmly answered the necessary challenges to his rights of incumbency with no sign of anxiety, without the loss of even one bead of sweat.

In 142 141 bce Simon forced the Syrian garrison on the Akra to surrender, and the Jews passed a decree in his honour, granting the right of permanent incumbency to Simon and to his successors, until "an accredited prophet" should arise.

But this year's primary features races in the Democratic Party in which the challengers are either elected officials with years of incumbency in their own right or candidates who gave incumbents a close race in earlier elections.

Many won their seats after successfully challenging establishment Republicans in primaries, proving that a combination of gumption and the right political climate could overcome the advantages of incumbency.

Sign a "certificate of incumbency" indicating that you are the incumbent.

Even if traffic rights were scrapped tomorrow, you'd still be faced with the fact of incumbency: an airline with a dominant share of the slots at an airport.

But ZANU enjoys the advantages of incumbency.

It has the benefit of incumbency.

The advantages of incumbency keep going up.

Then there's the power of incumbency.