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current
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Mrs McBride and the current incumbent were expected to work out a mutually agreed arrangement of hours and duties.
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In partial deference to that pOtential backlash, current incumbents did not actively seek committee endorsement.
democratic
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This time, Clinton ran unopposed, the first Democratic incumbent to do so since Lyndon Johnson in 1964.
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He is the first elected Democratic incumbent since Franklin Roosevelt to go unchallenged in his own party.
present
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For one thing, Erik Quistgaard, the present incumbent , does not want to go.
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The present more orthodox incumbent was a tough man as well as an Augustine; accustomed to risky assignments in Cairo.
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The role is narrowly conceived by the present incumbent .
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Those who replace them may, with a change of regime, be bolder than present incumbents in criticising the chairman.
republican
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Morales faces Republican incumbent U. S. Sen.
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Steve Horn, the Republican incumbent .
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Steiner easily beat the incumbent to become governor.
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An incumbent by definition is the status quo.
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He decided to dispense with the goodlooking, personable high-achiever destined to succeed and instead back the incumbent of this space.
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It was a role befitting a challenger debating the incumbent .
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Races for the U. S. Senate, on the other hand, favor incumbents.
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The incumbent is now off in hot pursuit of government funding for the much-enlarged interoperability lab, see above.
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The 50-year-old incumbent and the 72-year-old challenger appeared equally relaxed, forceful and well rehearsed.
II. adjective
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government
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Efficiency is the principle that voters ought to be able to assess the responsibility of and exercise control over the incumbent government .
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Labour would then benefit from the extra coverage given to the incumbent government .
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In all election campaigns, incumbent governments are going to be given a harder time than the Opposition.
president
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At the same time, as the incumbent President , he is also answerable for the state of the nation.
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Like Clinton 12 years later, he possessed in volume what the incumbent president , Jimmy Carter, lacked.
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The incumbent President , Alan García Pérez, was barred by electoral law from seeking re-election.
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An election campaign between an incumbent president and a Senate majority leader is bound to be fought out in legislative jousting.
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Carter suffered the worse electoral defeat of any incumbent President ever, including Herbert Hoover in 1932.
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Never in this century has the fight for the presidency pitted a congressional monarch against an incumbent president .
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Bhattarai, the incumbent Prime Minister, had lost his seat in the election.
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Carter suffered the worse electoral defeat of any incumbent President ever, including Herbert Hoover in 1932.
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He was defeated by incumbent Democrat J. Bennett Johnston who polled 54 percent.
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In addition, incumbent firms have actively carried out strategic moves.
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Mitchell was to face Republican incumbent Carroll Campbell.