Sentences with phrase «larger than the incumbents»

A Democratic source said the number of absentee ballots in both of these races was larger than the incumbents» margins of victory.

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The company said in February it was losing more than $ 1 billion a year in China's red - hot ride hailing market, where it is battling large local incumbents to win customers.

This trend is largely due to the fact that Hong Kong has been dominated to a greater extent than other financial centers by a small number of very large incumbents.

Not long ago, large enterprises — with deeply entrenched incumbent business relationships, rolodexes, and enormous advertising budgets — wined, dined, and golfed with their customers more than any small business could ever afford or imagine.

At the time, the choice to entrust the incumbent prime minister rather than the leader of the largest party with the first attempt to form a government had cross-party approval.

«Every year, hundreds of donors give more money than is allowed by state law that has highest limits of any state capping donation size; scores of candidates fail to disclose large contributions received in the run - up to Election Day; thousands of filings obfuscate the identity of donors or the purpose of expenditures through the inclusion of incomplete or incorrect information; and dozens of incumbent lawmakers spend campaign funds for what reasonable people would unanimously agree are non-campaign reasons,» the report found.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> A Greene County resident who is among eight Democrats seeking to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. John Faso in the 2018 election has raised more for his campaign this year than the incumbent or any of the other Democrats, thanks in large part to a $ 500,000 loan from himself.

The board of directors of the state's largest teachers union is backing Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.The leadership of the Connecticut Education Association, which has more than 43,000 members, is endorsing the Democratic incumbent against Republican challenger...

It was a grand night for the Nobles, what with uncle Jim Noble easily securing renomination for alderman - at - large by crushing challenger Jeanette Provenzano by a more than 2 - 1 margin and nephew Steve edging an incumbent mayor.

It's unusual for challengers to raise more money than incumbents in Congress, who can use the high visibility of their position to quickly raise large sums of money for their re-election campaigns.

Because if we can't find an economic force in normal times that drives our system to get larger, and it actually would have to outgrow, it has to grow, you know, faster, faster than the Internet, it has to have some other reason for being or else we'll continue to shrink relative to the incumbent, and so how will we ever have enough scale?

Understanding the effects of refugees on incumbent communities is more important than ever as the world faces the second largest refugee crisis in a century.

Teachers unions really can claim only two big wins — Democrat Tom Wolf ousting incumbent Republican Gov. Tom Corbett in Pennsylvania and the re-election of Tom Torlakson as California's superintendent of public instruction — despite the fact that the nation's two largest teachers unions spent more in this election cycle than ever before: more than $ 60 million in total.