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Example sentences for: incumbent

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Thus, each firm would have to incur the same route time costs that the incumbent currently incurs.
The LAT fronts the latest bad-novel twist in Monday's shooting of a Tennessee state senate incumbent: the arrest of his shady campaign opponent, Byron "Low Tax" Looper.
Fritz Hollings cannot hold his seat--if a powerful, intelligent, pork-barreling, 32 year incumbent, supported by the full force and bankroll of the national Democratic Party and opposed by a little-known challenger, cannot win--then the Democratic Party might as well fold and flee North.
Cream skimmers undercut prices charged by an incumbent that has heterogeneous costs but averaged prices.
In Alabama and South Carolina, the incumbent governors, Christian conservative Republicans Fob James and David Beasley, resisted efforts to start Georgia-style lotteries.