Sentences with phrase «not by incumbent»

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Bottom line: while an ongoing recession at the time of the election does not always mean that the incumbent party will lose control of the White House, it spells DOOM by better than a 2:1 ratio.

But at the same time, there's still a lot of room for companies to grow simply by automating workflows in a vertical that hasn't been served well by incumbent software companies.»

Unlike every other fast - growing market in tech, crypto and blockchain aren't dominated by the big incumbents.

First, as happened in Australia and New Zealand, if ISPs and content providers believe they can reduce costs by peering (i.e. not have to pay transit to exchange traffic) they can use this as a competitive tool to pass on zero - rated content to their customers, as opposed to those ISPs demanding transit payments to deliver traffic, which was particularly common when the countries could be reached only via one company, the incumbent operator.

Can the newcomers coexist harmoniously with an incumbent community anchored by 7,000 government - run and not - for - profit housing units?

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, tasked with defending 10 incumbent senators in states won by Trump last year, has monitored the Jones race and advised on staffing — but has not yet committed resources to the race.

But there isn't such a computer, and without proportional representation, our valiant efforts at voting our principles are undermined or rendered neutral by a crude system designed to favour incumbents and lower expectations of what is possible.

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.

Despite the slowdown in startups, the fintech revolution isn't over — it's been co-opted by the incumbents, and that's an opportunity for financial sector investors.

But the rule of kindness and courtesy - not always afforded to the Church by her enemies, but always incumbent upon her to observe in both internal and external debates - still holds.

IF it is incumbent upon me to come the Jesus and accept him, then I have reason to boast since I have been saved by the work of my will not by the unconditional love of G * d through Christ.

Is the «priest - penitent privilege» properly invoked when there is no pastor - parish setting in which confession is a religious duty incumbent upon priest and penitent, when the «penitents» are not necessarily members of the priest's denomination, when there is no «confession» as such, and when the clergyman is asked to divulge not the content of a confession, but, as the legal briefs say, observations made by him «incident thereto»?

Frank Vogel is far less likely to be dismissed by the Orlando Magic than is general manager Rob Hennigan, but front office turnover typically isn't good news for incumbent coaches.

One quick point before I hop a plane back to DC — as you're absorbing the media and the punditry's attempts to Understand The Meaning of Tuesday's primary losses by Arlen Spector in Pennsylvania and Trey Grayson in Kentucky (see: «Specter Defeat Signals a Wave Against Incumbents»), don't forget the classic observation that all politics is local.

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).

It is now incumbent on the African Union and the international community to persuade or put pressure on Nkurunziza not to take revenge against the demonstrators or coup plotters (both are from different constituencies), and to respect the Arusha agreement by stepping down, postponing the elections, and allowing democratic process to function.

I suggest that by refusing to demonise the incumbent, Syllenhaal isn't just challenging our beliefs around politics but also the traditional structure of a Hollywood screenplay, which usually coerces viewers into an emotional response by ramping up the evil of the villain.

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.

But hopes that Assemblyman Jim Skoufis would run against Bill Larkin haven't worked out, and Assemblyman Sean Ryan of Buffalo has also opted not to leave the Assembly to run for the seat being vacated by departing Democratic incumbent Marc Panepinto.

The site's raison d'être is to highlight incumbent Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer's upbraiding of an Army general for repeatedly referring to her by the female honorific rather than as «Senator» during a hearing — pretty thin gruel for a scandal, though not Boxer's best moment as an elected official.

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

In short, being appointed by the two governors didn't hurt — and in fact may have helped — their election because they could run as de facto incumbents.

Her 2005 election was extremely close, and she won in 2009 with only 45 % of the vote — not the worst showing that year by an incumbent, but close to the worst for an incumbent not hampered by allegations of corruption or senility.

«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.

He generated bad press for the administration by offering a job to Colorado Democratic Senate primary candidate Andrew Romanoff when the administration was trying to get him not to run against incumbent Michael Bennet in 2010.

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.

He nearly wept because he did not envisage he was going to be made powerless in a Party where he was State Chairman and which he midwifed to the Government House by defeating a gradually incumbent moribund AD Party.

Democrats beware of Trojan Rinos The Italian Prince of Darkness will keep his former enemies closer than his friends and not only take their contribution but will errantly take their Finklestinian failed advice — Andrew the Mechanic's quest for Gov is doomed not only by his arrogant incumbent taint that he so shamelessly tries to deny but more so by the trail of totally inept Clinton borne Freddy Mac & Fannie Mae 0 % down loan policies he embraced and promoted as HUD Secretary that propelled the country into the Great Recession we now endure as described by the Village Voice and other publications.

Even long - established incumbents with powerful local machines such as Simon Hughes and Vince Cable could not undo the damage done by going into coalition.

Democratic challengers in some of this year's most competitive races are appealing to Americans» fears about terrorism to broach gun control, specifically by calling out Republican incumbents for not backing New York Republican Rep. Peter T. King's bill, first introduced nine years ago, to prevent people on the terror watch list from purchasing firearms.

Massey attributed his withdrawal as driven by money, or the lack thereof, saying that he did «not see a path to raising the necessary funds to beat an incumbent mayor.»

He said he isn't deterred by polls showing him down by 40 points to the incumbent.

Retirements by a quartet of senators in Republican - leaning or swing states didn't help, but the seats of at least four incumbents seeking re-election aren't on much stronger ground.

The state's Congressional districts were redrawn by a federal magistrate, not the state Legislature, taking away the built - in advantage incumbents enjoy from redistricting.

«With millions being spent by the campaigns and the parties to woo voters and nearly six weeks left, this race is far from over but Brooks will not have an easy job in trying to unseat a popular incumbent,» said Siena pollster Steve Greenberg.

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.

A statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media, Uche Anichukwu, in Abuja on Friday quoted him as saying, «Former President Goodluck Jonathan put Nigeria on the global map as a leading democratic nation when he put in everything to ensure free and fair elections (in 2015), in which he did not only lose the presidential poll as an incumbent but also willingly conceded defeat.

At his campaign announcement last month, Morse said he had not been asked or encouraged by the IDC to take on Breslin, an eight - term incumbent and the brother of former County Executive Michael Breslin, with whom Morse and the County Legislature sometimes clashed.

Democratic newcomer Rita Worthington also is also looking at an unopposed run for the Fourth Ward seat being vacated by incumbent Democrat Nina Dawson, who is not seeking reelection.

Speaking at a political rally in Washington Heights this past Sun., Oct. 19th, the incumbent never mentioned Rob Astorino by name, but he did not fail to cite his opponent's party.

Former Councilman Vinny Orlando, a 52 - year - old Republican from Southold, won the Highway Superintendent post vacated by 12 - year incumbent Democrat Pete Harris, who like Mr. Talbot opted to not seek re-election this year.

Though not yet able to crack double digits in any statewide polling, the 61 - year - old Hawkins — one of the party's most prolific vote - getters — believes he has «a fighting chance» this fall against Wall Street - funded incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his hapless Republican rival, as evidenced by the surprisingly strong showing of underfunded challenger Zephyr Teachout in the recent Democratic gubernatorial primary.

(Espada's Senate communications director Franck LaBoy said that the investigation, and accompanying lawsuit, is without merit and «frivolous,» and responded to the well - worn charge that the senator lives in the suburbs by saying that «99.99 percent of incumbents don't live in their districts.

The upcoming Democratic primary for the at - large Syracuse City Council seats contains an interesting twist: The two incumbent Democrats were not endorsed by the city party committee.

He didn't mention the incumbent by name, but buzzwords like «cooperation and coordination» were intended to get the message across that Gallo can be difficult to deal with.

if you look at the sum total of what has transpired this summer with Hector Ramirez not participating in his debate, an absolutely dreadul performance by Peter Rivera and Luis Sepulveda in theirs, and now two debates in which the incumbents have offered an extended middle finger to their constituents.

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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press Writer MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson still isn't saying whether he'll enter the U.S. Senate race to challenge incumbent Russ Feingold, and it may be a while before he makes up...

Chin was not widely viewed as one of the city's most vulnerable incumbents, but ended up in a primary that was too close to call for a week after Election Day after a strong showing by Marte, who accused her of failing to rein in overdevelopment in the lower Manhattan district.

While Long did not come anywhere close to defeating Gillibrand — the incumbent Democrat broke a statewide record held by Schumer when she secured 72 percent of the vote — she is the highest profile Republican candidate to emerge as a potential challenger for Schumer, a former assemblyman from Brooklyn who is in line to become the Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate.