| As incumbency becomes a permanent entitlement, fewer challengers bother to run. |
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| He also said that Air India which was incurring losses for the past five years has started earning profit during his incumbency. |
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| Presidential incumbency was used to attract media attention to the presidential candidate. |
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| We have also said that they have had to be good corporate citizens during their incumbency. |
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| Although each election is unique, the incumbency or challenger status of candidates will influence the balance of stories written. |
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| He was indeed the founding father of the nation and his incumbency took us to a certain point in our history. |
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| Look at the number of corporations that have made the CSO job an automatic incumbency for one agency or another. |
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| This style served the party badly in the last years of its incumbency and especially in opposition. |
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| So why should a respect for incumbency overwhelm the actual opinions of her constituents? |
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| His chief advantage is his incumbency and its inherent command of the free-media forum that will be pivotal over the next eight weeks. |
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| He is famous for rebuking the self-indulgence of the Cluniacs during the incumbency of Peter the Venerable. |
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| The unspoken concern here is that incumbents might use the advantages of incumbency to position themselves to win the elections next January. |
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| Scandal may be forgiven, and incumbency has its uses, particularly if veteran legislators deliver for their constituents. |
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| These attributes include incumbency, seniority, committee membership, chairmanships of relevant committees, and commitment to the views supported by the political action committee. |
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| Such MPs gained 750-1,000 votes as a result of becoming incumbents, they concluded. The advantage of incumbency may be growing further. |
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| The senator is, after all, a Washington incumbent at a time when both incumbency and all things federal are held to be wildly unpopular. |
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| This issue is Abbott's to exploit – Labor's response to the issue has all the problems of incumbency against the opposition's sloganeering. |
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| Based on the limited data available, there is no discernible incumbency effect. |
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| That incumbency needs to be refreshed, and there is nothing like a spell in opposition to renew a party's thinking. |
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| In addition, it disregards the fact that their position confers a unique incumbency advantage for such future platforms. |
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| Additional information on incumbency levels was provided to the Advisory Committee on request. |
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| The cost estimates for United Nations Volunteers reflect the application of a higher vacancy factor, based on recent incumbency patterns. |
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| That measure had assisted in maintaining post incumbency and reducing the vacancy rate. |
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| A summary of posts, incumbency levels and vacancy rates as at 30 September 2005 is provided in the table below. |
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| The vacancy rate represented an average incumbency of 161 posts against an authorized 169 posts. |
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| The President, in his incumbency, didn't have to do a thing to own the middle ground. |
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| The benefits of incumbency are quite potent, especially in the all-important area of raising campaign funds. |
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| First, the other side has a huge advantage in money, incumbency and a constituency that benefits lopsidedly from the unrepresentative electoral college and senate. |
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| Labor is just now cranking up its grass roots machine while the local Liberals, despite their incumbency, are little more than a blip on the radar screen. |
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| To minimize the advantages incumbency might otherwise confer on a lucky few, power should be shared as widely as possible consistent with maintaining order. |
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| One of the regrets of my incumbency, probably, should be that I have not given as much comfort and succour as I could have done, to all the local hostelries, taverns, or pubs. |
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| The poll was held on Thursday, 5 May 2011 and decided the incumbency for all the assembly's seats. |
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| It was the first elected position he had ever held, his single incumbency and, he had to admit, his best prospect, the only game in town. |
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| The Department was also able to maintain a 95 per cent incumbency rate for 2006-2007 and continued to strive for a high rate of budgetary utilization, which stood at 92.5 per cent in the reporting period. |
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| Disloyal backbenchers have a lot more fun than dogsbody junior ministers. Individual MPs have become more autonomous for one other big reason: the power of incumbency. |
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| The shadow science minister has held the seat since 2001, but with a gradually decreasing vote each election, confounding the theory of beneficial incumbency. |
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| The ICC and its members need to take full advantage of the current Chairperson's incumbency and his personal support for NHRI participation rights. |
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| A number of delegations pointed to the possibility of allocating permanent seats to regions and leaving it up to the regions to arrange for the incumbency of those seats. |
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| I agree with Mr. Anders that the Canadian media fund is a great step in the right direction, but it still heavily favours the incumbency of the broadcasters. |
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| This incumbency advantage has ensured that the only new entrants to the relevant market in recent times have had 'deep pockets': Mars, Häagen Dazs and Nestlé. |
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| The significant commonality and scale benefits that derive from incumbency enable a supplier to maintain or grow its share within an airline's fleet. |
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| In addition, due consideration has been given to historical levels of incumbency, current vacancy rates and difficulties in recruiting staff in the light of the restrictions placed on selected nationalities. |
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| On the contrary, incumbency may not play any significant role when airlines wish to replace their fleet of ageing aircraft that are no longer in production. |
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| Based on monthly incumbency and planned strength. |
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| Tory strategists were hoping to see their party ahead by this stage of the campaign on the back of a strong economic message and the so called incumbency factor. |
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| The possession of a country house, and incumbency of a county constituency were regarded as essential for a Tory with ambitions to lead the party. |
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