incumbency

How To Use incumbency In A Sentence

• Although each election is unique, the incumbency or challenger status of candidates will influence the balance of stories written.
• His chief advantage is his incumbency and its inherent command of the free-media forum that will be pivotal over the next eight weeks.
• He was indeed the founding father of the nation and his incumbency took us to a certain point in our history.
• Controversy surrounded the early years of the priest's incumbency due to accusations from local newspapers of increased levels of ‘Popish and Pagan mummeries’ within St Michael's services.
• So why should a respect for incumbency overwhelm the actual opinions of her constituents?
• The simplicity of his message was that for America, under his eight-year incumbency in the White House, ‘what works did work’.
• Jonathan, with the advantages of presidential incumbency, has also announced that he will run.
• JOHN KING, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Offering comfort to hurricane victims in Florida, a predebate display of the benefits of incumbency. CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2004
• As incumbency becomes a permanent entitlement, fewer challengers bother to run.
• He is famous for rebuking the self-indulgence of the Cluniacs during the incumbency of Peter the Venerable.