Example sentences for: incumbent

How can you use “incumbent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Given the huge scale economies of a universal service provider and the limited amount of contestable mail, it is very difficult for an entrant, at least in the U.S., to charge prices lower than an incumbent (Cohen et al.

  • Incumbent commentators noted that this will encourage licensees to "wait out" incumbents and increase the likelihood that incumbents would have to assume the costs of their own relocation.

  • "It was Clinton's good fortune to run for re-election in a generally satisfied country," write Ramesh Ponnuru, Rich Lowry, and Kate O'Beirne in the National Review . In the words of Fred Barnes, offering an alternative explanation to Krauthammer's in the Standard : "In a period of peace and prosperity--such as now--an incumbent president is all but certain to be reelected.

  • Thus, each firm would have to incur the same route time costs that the incumbent currently incurs.

  • If an entrant were more efficient than the incumbent, then the USO would not cause the lost profit.


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