Sentences with phrase «by incumbents who»

Startups will understand it though, mostly because they'll exploit the opportunity created by incumbents who are desperately trying to protect their outdated model.

«I invite Paladino to visit state Senate districts in Albany, Rochester, Schenectady and Syracuse that are represented by incumbents who stand in the way of reform and are being challenged by independent, reform - minded women candidates, who deserve support.»

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Disruptive innovation: Tesla (TSLA) floored the German luxury car incumbents by commercializing an incredibly high - performance electric vehicle just seven years after the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?

The question of who will be Germany's next Chancellor looks increasingly unlikely with the current incumbent, Angela Merkel seeing her lead in the opinion polls being eroded by socialist leader Martin Schulz.

The project stalled under Barack Obama's presidency, but has been revived by current White House incumbent Donald Trump, who appointed ex-ExxonMobil boss Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State and is viewed as an oil and gas friendly Commander in Chief.

But McDermott - the young deli - owner who won customers from the incumbent 7 - Eleven by virtue of being smaller and more nimble - arguably now has the opposite challenge on his hands.

Any incumbent director who is a director nominee and who does not receive a majority vote must promptly tender his or her offer of resignation as a director for consideration by the Board.

A potential surge of Podemos would echo recent elections in neighboring Portugal where the center - right incumbent coalition was overrun by the Socialists, who in turn struck an alliance with a leftist bloc deeply opposed to fiscal rigor.

However, the majority of Indians, who had been left behind by recent economic growth, voted against incumbent governments, unseating, among others, many strongly pro-business ruling politicians in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka (of which Bangalore is the capital city).

The standard of lead commentators lags well behind their overseas counterparts, particularly when the incumbents have very poor knowledge of the game and are appointed by management who make no effort to recruit better performers, including former players.

«Many of these seats have been long - held by entrenched Democratic incumbents who simply stopped listening to voters.

Padavan belongs in Albany, doing work, Just another incumbent who's been around too long and needs to have his arrogant sense of self - entitlement curbed by being voted out.

Republicans in Nassau County are prepared to back village of Flower Hill Mayor Elaine Phillips to run for the Senate seat being vacated by incumbent Sen. Jack Martins, who is running for congress, sources familiar with the plan said.

His efforts were not enough to save House incumbents like Reps. Mike Arcuri, Scott Murphy, Mike McMahon and John Hall, who all lost to their Republican opponents last Tuesday (two more — Dan Maffei and Tim Bishop — are hanging by the proverbial thread).

In his letter, sent just before Christmas, Khojasteh notes he is so far the only Republican who has filed paperwork declaring his intention to run for the Hudson Valley seat vacated by former Democratic Sen. George Latimer, who is now Westchester County executive after defeating the Republican incumbent, Rob Astorino, last fall, though a number of other potential contenders have been mentioned.

The main choice was between the incumbent Hugo Chávez, backed by a coalition of progressive and left - aligned parties and social movements, and Henrique Capriles Radonski, a state governor with strong ties to the country's elite, who had formed a right wing coalition known as the MUD.

President Donald Trump is invoked in the opening moments of a new TV ad being released Wednesday by Democratic Westchester County executive George Latimer, who has sought to link him to Republican incumbent Rob Astorino.

Journalists who were quick to criticise and write off your carefully thought through pronouncements as a Minister will hang on your every word when you are no longer bound by collective responsibility and are prepared to offer a disobliging view on the current incumbents.

Serino, who made the announced flanked by Republican elected officials, is expected to once again face Democrat Terry Gipson, the incumbent she ousted in 2014.

Thus, as Marshall Ganz has warned since the early 1990s, in the vast majority of districts where elections are not effectively contested, the new political targeting may in fact narrow the electorate by helping campaigns focus on an ever more clearly defined plurality of highly motivated and highly partisan supporters who turn out on a regular basis to return the incumbent to office.

Queens City Councilman Eric Ulrich said he's «seriously considering» a bid for lieutenant governor against Cuomo's running mate, Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul, after being approached by Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, who's running for governor.

This is the seat held by Republican incumbent Martin Golden who was first elected in 2002.

In an action that surprised some political observers, the club was unable to make an endorsement at the April 23 meeting for the at - large Council seat held by incumbent Anita Bonds, a Democrat who's also a longtime LGBT rights supporter.

As someone who did not share the doubts expressed by the Committee, it was incumbent upon him to explain why.

Labour's constitution stipulates that any challenger who wishes to contest the party leadership against an incumbent leader (as opposed to contesting a vacant post) must be nominated by 20 % of Labour MPs and MEPs, which would currently be 51 MPs / MEPs.

So... to recap, Bernie is continuing to send money down - ballot by backing 3 more congressional candidates, who are allies, 2 of whom are running against incumbents who are gay... because they believe they are better on fiscal policy.

«The election will not be taken for granted by me,» said Koch, who had been elected mayor four years earlier by defeating incumbent Mayor Abe Beame, colorful congresswoman Bella Abzug, and Secretary of State Mario Cuomo in a crowded and bitterly contested Democratic primary and runoff before whipping Republican Roy M. Goodman and Cuomo, who was running on the Liberal Party ticket, in the general election.

An incumbent who is the board president being challenged by a parent who wants transparency.

New York Democratic candidate for Governor Cynthia Nixon delivered a blistering speech against incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo and was immediately criticized by a Cuomo associate, who appeared to take a shot at Nixon's sexual orientation.

By less than 5,000 votes, he defeated Ceretto, a three - term incumbent who switched party affiliation from the GOP to Democratic in the summer of 2015.

One idea that's been floated, particularly by Republicans who don't want to give an incumbent Democrat an advantage in November's election, is to leave Underwood, the solicitor general, in place as acting attorney general for the remainder of the year.

Carl Paladino is making good on his threat to challenge the Senate Republican establishment in Albany by aiding at least three candidates who hope to knock off incumbent lawmakers this year.

Democrats are especially focused on Nassau County races this year in particular, with potential pickup opportunities with the seat being vacated by Sen. Jack Martins, a congressional candidate, and the one held by incumbent Sen. Kemp Hannon, who is running for re-election.

He also endorsed incumbent Democratic Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer, who is being challenged by Republican Bob Choen.

The Post further suggested that Mr. Spitzer, who is also a former attorney general, could be eying a return to that job — even though Eric Schneiderman currently holds the position — or the state comptroller's office, held by incumbent Tom DiNapoli.

Mr. Blakeman described Ms. Gillibrand as «the unelected incumbent appointed by an unpopular governor» and said Mr. DioGuardi was a congressman who failed to hew to a conservative Republican agenda.

However, incumbent MSP John Pentland won the seat in 2011 by only 587 votes (2.4 %) against Clare Adamson, who subsequently took a regional seat.

Seven moderate Republican incumbents were defeated by more conservative rivals in an effort to oust members of the Senate who were hostile to parts of Gov. Sam Brownback's agenda.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will announce Thursday the first 14 members who will join its Frontline program for the party's most vulnerable incumbents, according to an early copy of a news release obtained by CQ Roll Call.

One high - profile contest was won by state Sen. George Latimer, a Democrat, over incumbent Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican who ran for governor in 2014.

Senate Democratic Leader John Sampson is standing by incumbent members of his conference who are facing primary challenges, including Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., who is the target of pro-gay marriage advocates this fall.

The elections were marred by widespread sectarian violence, which claimed the lives of 800 people across the country, Buhari's won 12,214,853 votes, coming in second to the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP, who polled 22,495,187 votes and was declared the winner.

All the elections were won by the incumbent Yoweri Museveni, who has been President of Uganda since 26 January 1986.

With seven candidates vying for the two seats left open by Thomas and Reynolds opted to not re-run for their seats, deciding to run for Mayor instead, some Mt. Vernon residents don't even now the names of the all the city council candidates, which included Lisa A. Copeland and John Boykin who were running on the ticket with incumbent Mayor Davis who lost to Richard Thomas in the primary.

Freeman — who in the 2007 Democratic primary defeated incumbent Albany County Legislator Lucille McKnight on the machine count only to lose by four votes once absentees were tallied — this time held his lead over party - backed candidate Victor Cain for Albany's 2nd Ward Common Council seat.

Those who want to clip power off incumbents make up for their own current handicap - lack of power, by spreading as much money as they can muster.

One other reason an incumbent may lose a governorship election is when, he has by his own hands, incurred the wrath of the people who elected him.

Although initially excluded from the shortlist, Doughty was actively endorsed by the then incumbent Labour MP Alun Michael (a long - time family friend)[9] who insisted on his inclusion and advocated his selection.

In the race for New York State governor, Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo leads his Republican challenger, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, by 25 percentage points among likely voters statewide including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate.

And yesterday, GOP Senate candidate Andrew Russo fired off the following angry press statement in reaction to the news that his recommended endorsement by local party leaders was among those overturned by MacKay and the executive committee, who decided to back incumbent Democratic Sen. Dave Valesky instead.