Sentences with phrase «headed by the incumbent»

In October, the Latvian people voted in a coalition headed by the incumbent prime minister Valdis Dombrovskis, whose government had savaged social benefits, cut pay and inflated unemployment in 2009.

The 2013 elections produced a highly fragmented and deeply polarised parliament, in which the strongest list — the right - wing Likud - Beiteinu, headed by incumbent prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu — secured just over one quarter of the Knesset's 120 seats.

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«Several consortiums led by incumbents with high market share have emerged to test proof - of - concept Blockchain technologies, particularly in international payments and securities clearing and settlement,» says Morgan Stanley's Global Head of Banks and Diversified Finance Research Betsy Graseck.

Another high - profile campaign for commissioner is taking place in the Northwest Side's 12th District, where three - term Democratic incumbent Ted Lechowicz is being challenged by Forrest Claypool, a former head of the Chicago Park District and two - time chief of staff for Mayor Richard Daley.

It wears its left - wing politics on its sleeve and turns the tried - and - tested «idealistic good guy vs corrupt bad guy» narrative on its head, by showing considerable sympathy for the Democrat incumbent Cogswell is trying to unseat, while all the while encouraging you to vote for its protagonist.

With ballot counting completed in the 8th Senate district, Democratic candidate John Brooks leads Republican incumbent Michael Venditto by 41 votes, an outcome that is almost certainly headed to state Supreme Court in the undecided race for the state Senate seat on Long Island.

The following Democratic incumbents were announced as targets by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) heading into 2016.

Democratic congressional candidate Dan Maffei and incumbent Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle head into the fall campaign in a statistical tie, two years after Republican Buerkle unseated Maffei by only 648 votes.

Heading into the final days of a bitterly fought campaign, incumbent U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson (R - Kinderhook) says he has high hopes to win all 11 counties in the 19th Congressional District — including Ulster, where he lost by 13,000 votes in 2012.

Some Democrats head - shakingly acknowledged that Republicans would come out ahead in both districts, including one where incumbent Sen. Michael Venditto trailed by 33 votes when the polls closed, which would give them a 32 - vote bloc in the 63 seat chamber.

District 12 was dominated by Republican candidates during the study period and was held by a Republican incumbent heading into the 2016 election.

Typically, such new management will be resisted by the unions, by the local council (especially if Labour - run), by many of the existing governors, and the staff usually including the incumbent head.

A victory by incumbent Janet Waugh, a Democrat whose district includes parts of Lawrence, and wins by Republican moderates in two districts previously represented by conservatives left the tables turned heading into the Nov. 7 general election.»

Having governed Malaysia without interruption since 1957, the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) appeared poised for a historic defeat on May 5th, when it appeared the ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional (BN) led by incumbent Prime Minister Najib Razak, might lose the general elections for the first time in Malaysia's history to the opposition coalition, Pakatan Rakyat (PR), headed by long - serving political firebrand and ex-political prisoner, Anwar Ibrahim.

«Under [incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip] Erdogan, the police have become increasingly powerful and are allegedly dominated by members of a tightly knit religious brotherhood headed by the controversial Pennsylvania - based imam Fethullah Gulen.

Moore won a tight race for the firm's managing partner crown earlier this week, edging aside Asia managing partner Marc Harvey and litigation head Michael Bennett to be selected by the partnership board to succeed incumbent Simon Davies.