How To Use Incumbent In A Sentence

This so-called "truncation" of the collection process calls for a redefinition of the duties incumbent on the holder and collecting and drawee banks and have been specifically addressed in the proposed legislation. ANC Daily News Briefing
Lets hope her constituents rise up in the next election and oust this unqualified and opportunitistic showboater who only won by running against an unpopular and dying incumbent. Archive 2009-08-01
Chiengmai; but it was curious, even amusing, to observe the serene contempt with which the "interlopers" were received by the rival incumbents of the royal gynecium, -- especially the Laotian women, who are of a finer type and much handsomer than their Siamese sisters. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
Then as now, a majority of the electorate disapproved of the incumbent's performance.
She felt it incumbent upon/on her to raise the subject at their meeting.

Nevertheless, incumbent officeholders, candidates, and aspirants are pragmatic to a fault, and their main concern is with winning elections.
A change in anyone's government gets far more attention than an election that returns the incumbent government to office.
As you may be aware I am the Speaker of the House of Commons and it is incumbent upon me to honour and uphold the noble traditions of the House.
Tim Holden won his last race with 51 percent in a newly reapportioned district against another incumbent.
I hope his 2012 campaign ads avoid racial incitement by only saying “reelect the incumbent.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking ObamaCare Challenges Seriously
It would entrench the position of incumbent institutions that are already too large and too diverse.
Present castle incumbent Peter Frost-Pennington is a stoic, sensible Scot, who likes to keep an open mind on spectral matters, but readily admits a recent flurry in phantom phenomena has been pretty good for business.
But we cannot just resort to blaming the present incumbents for our circumstances.
Five Dem incumbents there are in jeopardy due to a GOP redistricting plan.
'This house will do whatever is incumbent upon it in good conscience,' said the abbot with chilly emphasis, and watched with an unrevealing face as Drogo Bosiet, with only the curtest of nods by way of leavetaking, turned on his booted heel and strode out of the chapterhouse. The Hermit of Eyton Forest
He could possibly replace the Republican incumbent, who is not seeking reelection.
I think if we are going to have these high alerts in the future, I think it is incumbent on the attorney general to give us more information.
It is said that when one of the incumbent ministers asked his superiors for an additional bathroom for the house, he was given the choice of that or the services of a precentor (praise leader) for the church.
On the death of the incumbent baron in 1965, the title passed to Elizabeth / Ewan, who, by dint of a paper ‘sex change’, was now the male heir to the barony.
A challenger must come into the open and secure swift support across all wings of the party against the incumbent.
Julio Lugo is the incumbent shortstop, but young Adam Everett could push him out. USATODAY.com - 7. Atlanta Braves
It's the same reason U.S. airlines shy away from adding service in rival airline's fortress hubs -- the bigger incumbent can outmatch you in flights and fares to protect its markets, and likely has many business travelers locked into frequent flier programs and corporate contracts. For Fliers, 'Open Skies' Start Is Slow
The incumbent president faces problems which began many years before he took office.
In the Hampton Roads region Tuesday, Rep. Glenn Nye (D) swung from a 5-point win over an incumbent two years ago to an 11-point loss against auto dealer Scott Rigell (R). Democrats took a bruising, but state's still in 'purple' territory
The incumbents often behave badly towards new entrants. Times, Sunday Times
In return for such a privilege we implicitly acknowledge that there are reciprocal obligations incumbent upon us.
The first was the incumbent wetland flora with origins in the early Carboniferous.
Despite the shortage of qualified dhammaduta monks, scattered across the West there are a few Theravada viharas and Buddhist centres whose incumbents, in their own quiet and non-assertive way, are working to spread the Dhamma.
But it appeared to be the incumbent who will gain any political advantage.
Around this time in every midterm election cycle, the vultures of political prognostication begin hovering over incumbents in trouble.
He defeated the incumbent governor by a large plurality.
Indeed, this be of that which is incumbent on us, O King, and I say, ‘Praised be Allah!’ in that He hath guerdoned thee with His gifts and vouchsafed thee of His mercy, the welfare of the realm; and hath succoured thee and ourselves, on condition that we increase in gratitude to Him; and all this no otherwise than by thine existence! The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
And the incumbent governor of Mississippi is a Democrat.
It's incumbent on you to advise your son before he leaves home.
Free entry and exit enables a potential entrant to adopt hit-and-run behaviour whenever the incumbent shows any signs of making above-normal profits.
What actually happened, was that a key Senate race swung from the Democratic incumbent to the Republican challenger, when Saxby Chambliss attacked Max Cleland for obstruction. Matthew Yglesias » Ungovernable
Yet, the reform drive should not concentrate only on ousting old faces allegedly responsible for the corruption and misadministraion of the incumbent government.
The very idea of the present incumbent supporting a factory occupation is laughable.
It is incumbent upon the authorities to meet with road transporters and where need be smooth out the technical details of how maize could be brought into the country without delay.
For some time I heard nothing more of the Princess of Chiengmai; but it was curious, even amusing, to observe the serene contempt with which the “interlopers” were received by the rival incumbents of the royal gynecium, ” especially the Laotian women, who are of a finer type and much handsomer than their Siamese sisters. The English Governess at the Siamese Court
He confesses to another, personal reason for preferring the incumbent.
And then this week, the current Kremlin incumbent, Dmitry Medvedev, goes and announces that he's "rearming" Russia, using the very word - "rearmament" - that Europe fretted over and feared all through its short 20-year peace between the first and second world wars. Undefined
A provost is the head of the cathedral chapter in a number of the Church of England's more recently created dioceses in which the cathedral is also a parish church and the provost is the incumbent.
An election campaign between an incumbent president and a Senate majority leader is bound to be fought out in legislative jousting.
Thus, it is incumbent on the government to support and develop the cooperation agencies.
Of course, even if it is just an "anti-incumbent" year, Democrats still have more incumbencies to defend, so it's not like the party's out of the woods yet in regards to November. Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [124] -- How's That Libertarian Thingie Workin' Out For Ya?
What is incumbent upon you to do is a belt-and-braces check on all the chain of custody evidence and make sure that is in apple pie order. Beware a Rush to Judgement
But if the government of a Darul-Kufr allows him to observe his religious duties, then it is not incumbent upon him to migrate to Darul-Islam.
Thr politicians dont resond because the majority of voters have been returning 90% of the incumbents for the last twenty years. Meet fourteen worrying Democrats. | RedState
He was the first nonincumbent Republican presidential candidate to carry the state since 1928.
In the wintry weeks that followed he remained in the No3 shirt as the Leicester scrum did its worst to high-flying Saracens at Vicarage Road, then – and particularly wince-worthy this demolition job – to a Wasps pack, complete with Simon Shaw and England's incumbent loosehead, Tim Payne, a Lion no less. Dan Cole the tighthead Tiger who is too good to ditch
He probably thought that the appointment was ideal because she's a woman, is young, isseen as a rising star, has previously defeated a Republican incumbent, andcould help him win re-election in 2010. Yea or Nea on Senator Kirsten Gillibrand? Nea.
superincumbent layers of dead plants cut off the air and arrested decomposition
Mr Blocher was elected yesterday with 121 votes, unseating Ruth Metzler, the incumbent Christian People's party justice minister, who got 116.
Congress has helped make the odds by enacting measure after measure designed to keep incumbents in office.
Voters may look back on an incumbent's performance in office, and cast a retrospective vote, or may compare what the candidates promise to do if elected to office, and vote prospectively.
A further example of this difficulty concerns the special responsibility incumbent on firms in a dominant position.
It is incumbent therefore on all local authorities to operate as efficiently and economically as possible.
Consequently the mayoral incumbent must perform a delicate juggling act to maintain constituent support.
Excessive regulation may also be an effective barrier to entry, thus reducing competition and providing large profits for the incumbents.
Left-wing incumbents are expected to adopt high-inflation, low-unemployment positions and right-wing governments the reverse.
But Oakland wouldn't make an error by shifting its focus and homing in on one of the premier quarterbacks; after all, incumbent Rich Gannon is 38.
The winner would then take on incumbent Democrat Ed Rendell - an unabashed Eagles fan.
The onus is then on the incumbent monopolist to ensure that supernormal profits are never earned.
Gone is the shameless arrogance and empire building of the previous incumbents.
Excessive regulation may also be an effective barrier to entry, thus reducing competition and providing large profits for the incumbents.
Jim Gibbons was tossed aside Tuesday -- the first incumbent governor in Nevada history to lose a nominating election after a tumultuous first term marred by a bitter divorce, allegations of infidelities and an abrasive style that alienated members of his own party. Las Vegas News - LasVegasNOW.com
Several candidates explained in great detail the advantages incumbents have in fundraising, media access and, in the case of federal officials, the frank.
An occasion is privileged if the statement is made pursuant to a legal, social or moral duty incumbent upon the defendant.
The deadline extension under state law occurred when incumbent Jan Davey did not file nomination papers and also failed to file a notice of noncandidacy by the Dec. 26 deadline. The Appleton Post-Crescent Latest Headlines
Present incumbents were required to compete with new applicants for these positions.
I headed off to find the incumbent tattletale.
In addition, incumbent firms have actively carried out strategic moves.
They pay likewise subsidies with the temporalty, but in such sort that if these pay after four shillings for land, the clergy contribute commonly after six shillings of the pound, so that of a benefice of twenty pounds by the year the incumbent thinketh himself well acquitted if, all ordinary payments being discharged, he may reserve thirteen pounds six shillings eightpence towards his own sustentation or maintenance of his family. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
We didn't release today's poll with the others because we were focused on voter attitudes about clean energy in tossup House races where the incumbent voted for the House climate bill known as the American Clean Energy & Security Act (ACES). Heather Taylor-Miesle: Delaware Voters Support Clean Energy
Yet, while George confutes the morality of the landowner's original title, he does not regard this as good enough reason, in itself, for overriding the claim of the present incumbent.
The incumbent is paid a pittance to give a series of lectures on the art of poetry. Times, Sunday Times
These investigations can yield astonishing information about what an incumbent did or did not do. Times, Sunday Times
In the June elections, Morris easily defeated the incumbent, Tom Smith.
it is incumbent on me to attend
Clement Nyirenda also remarks on how the punditry got it wrong, and finds the voting pattern for the incumbent president's win epochal: Global Voices in English » Malawi elections: Upending the pundits’ predictions
Dewey himself campaigned with the portly dignity of an incumbent, while Truman screeched and kicked like an outsider.
If the election is fought on domestic issues, the incumbent will probably lose.
Truly ugly, invective is directed at Obama too, but as the winner it is incumbent on him to reach out to Clinton supporters. Angry Clinton supporters tell party leaders: 'Let's go McCain!'
In the latter two cases, the terms outlived the incumbents, as Quisenberry was dead from scarlet fever and Darey hit by lightning while woodcock shooting before the reservoir was half full. Stillwater
Excessive regulation may also be an effective barrier to entry, thus reducing competition and providing large profits for the incumbents.
We chose this case because it was not a simple story of one innovation's demonstrable technical and economic superiority over an incumbent rival.
It is incumbent upon all Muslims to devote a proportion of their excess income to the support of religious and charitable works.
He ran against one of the most experienced incumbent president of the century: a two-term veep, former head of the CIA and incumbent president who presided masterfully over the end of the Cold War. Obama Spokesman: No Candidate Has Been More Scrutinized By Media Than Obama Has
That is not a recipe for re-electing an incumbent who took responsibility for the now-slowing recovery when it was steaming ahead.
Every Prime Minister since then sought to fiddle with the format to extract maximum advantage - and make no mistake, the incumbent calls the tune.
In partial deference to that pOtential backlash, current incumbents did not actively seek committee endorsement.
She has outraised the incumbent senator every quarter since announcing her candidacy.
It is still incumbent upon all of us to take it further.
He is getting badly outraised by the incumbent.
A courtly man with an ornery streak and a stately head of white hair, Hooper seemed typecast for the role of southern chief justice, a role he hoped to wrest from the popular Democratic incumbent, Ernest "Sonny" Hornsby. Karl Rove in a Corner
For their travelling purposes, and for the duties incumbent upon them as ciceroni in their own town, many individuals learn a little Turkish; and it is their pride to persuade the Turkish pilgrims, that they are Turks, and not Arabians, however little they may like the former. Travels in Arabia
So long as free entry and exit exists in markets, incumbent businesses can earn only competitive rates of profit.
By offering cheap and convenient care they expose the costly incumbents of health-care delivery.
Although Mr Allawi has complained about harassment and victimisation of his followers by forces loyal to his chief rival –the incumbent Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
And a credible challenge is what the Democratic incumbent needs to rouse him from his torpor. Times, Sunday Times
I am not being judgmental or unwelcoming, but I feel that it is incumbent upon me to inform you that I am unaware of the existence of any private pictures about those gentlemen.
Economic data turns out to be the strongest indicator of whether the incumbent will win re-election. Times, Sunday Times
It is unlikely that a figure will emerge in the next few months capable of posing a convincing challenge to the incumbent.
A total of 50 livings were in the hands of 22 pluralist clerks, which represents about 5 per cent of the incumbent parish clergy.
Democrats are ahead 6 of the 8 open seats (with Colorado on the open list), and Tony Knowles is ahead in Alaska (the DSCC counts it as open, too, since the incumbent was a mid-term appointee). Speaking of lists...
Todays aussie emos also prefer Wireless: So learnings in identities, avatars and the like from gaming are key. (btw re global incumbents - a front page on your global property also does not necessarily equal global success: and universities are the untapped angle as well re facebook like preemptive plays) Throw in the best of youtube, livejournal, myspace and u probably still underestimate it. Archive 2006-06-01
It is incumbent upon all the peoples of the world to reconcile their differences, and, with perfect unity and peace, abide beneath the shadow of the Tree of His care and loving-kindness .
Teachers and lecturers feel it incumbent upon themselves, when teaching his great works, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, to explain the context.
HERE COME THE REPUBLICANS -- Tim Craig profiles the four Republican challenges in ward council races, focusing on Dave Hedgepeth's run again Ward 3 incumbent Mary Cheh. DeMorning DeBonis: Oct. 29, 2010
The result, as ordained by the panel of Elders, is not what the current incumbent expected. REVIEW: The Good Old Stuff edited by Gardner Dozois
Above this contraption floated a big egg-shaped silk balloon of hydrogen, from which the tricycle with the incumbent Alberto were suspended. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
Other story lines involve the Democratic gubernatorial primary in which Kane is playing games with both the slobby and corrupt old incumbent and a chipper young challenger Jeff Hephner, who talks like a sincere man of the people and has an insatiable appetite for risky sex in semipublic places. Real Monsters and Fairy Tales
In general, incumbents have a 94 per cent chance of being re-elected.
These investigations can yield astonishing information about what an incumbent did or did not do. Times, Sunday Times
Secondly, membership of a panel immediately renders the incumbent ineligible for any grants, awards etc during their term of office.
In Arkansas, the Democratic incumbent is being challenged from the left. Six months to November elections, with dates to watch
The Republican incumbents have dismissed his allegations. Times, Sunday Times
The defeated alderwoman's husband is running for the Liberals here and the incumbent was temporarily investigated.
The incumbent president faces problems which began many years before he took office.
Into the fray steps a candidate once very pally with the incumbent Liberal Party but then opting to run on an independent ticket due to strong differences of opinion.
In this case, it's a term glibly applied to someone who, having failed to win an open seat after spending $160 million, will instead attempt to dislodge an entrenched incumbent in the form of Dianne Feinstein. Meg Whitman Will Mount A Second Terrible Political Campaign As Soon As She Figures Out Why The First One Was Terrible
It's incumbent on you to advise your son before he leaves home.
Above this contraption floated a big egg-shaped silk balloon of hydrogen, from which the tricycle with the incumbent Alberto were suspended. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
The former is a duty incumbent upon all Muslims, the latter a duty incumbent upon the ‘Islamic state’.
Never a night passed but the dreary stage-door was cinct with a circlet of fools bearing bright bouquets, of flaxen-headed fools who had feet like black needles, and graceful fools incumbent upon canes. The Works of Max Beerbohm
It was incumbent on them to attend.
They made use of it, to instil into the small portion of the people under their direction, that it was incumbent on them to serve no other master than him who was the vicegerent of God on earth, and who dwelt in Italy on the banks of a small river called the Tiber; that every other religious opinion, every other worship, was an abomination in the sight of A Philosophical Dictionary
They also were incumbent companies that resisted change and eventually were consumed by it.
It will not single out anyone as a successor to a bishop or archbishop except in rare cases when the incumbent is obviously old or very ill. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
Sen. MENENDEZ: Well, I think the reality is, is that the Tea Party, which is totally militated in the Republican Party and has also defeated several of their mainstream candidates, including incumbent U.S. senators, has generated a lot of enthusiasm in their party. A Look At Democrats' Chances In The Midterms
The Clinton fundraiser is being described as 'strictly proforma', and he may be willing to do one for the incumbent too from the sounds of it. Trippi emerges again... (Blog for Democracy)
The incumbent president faces problems which began many years before he took office.
The firm said "at some point a tight-lipped communications strategy morphs into a shareholder perception of entrenchment—the desire of incumbent directors to keep a good thing going for themselves, rather than maximize value for unaffiliated shareholders—and crystallizes into a governance issue. Proxy Firm Questions Ralcorp Board Governance
First, it is incumbent upon us to extend the methods of science and reason to all areas of human interest.
Gone is the shameless arrogance and empire building of the previous incumbents.
Della is the most vulnerable. 2007 will not be a good year to take on any of these incumbents. Sound Politics: Who's the most vulnerable Seattle City Councilmember?
It is blatantly obvious that the current incumbents at the Home Office cannot even spell the words civil and liberty, let alone grasp their meaning.
The biggest danger when an incumbent president hits the money trail is that his quest for campaign swag will put him in close proximity with donors who want special favors from the government.
I made the run-on team but as a winger because the incumbent halfback was heaps bigger and faster than me, and also because the mate that introduced me to the club had broken his nose the previous week.
Yesterday was another busy one for statewide polling, including four new surveys in battleground states from the CNN/Time polling partnership, though the most intriguing new numbers come from Alaska, where two new polls show considerable support for the write-in candidacy of incumbent Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski. Alaska Polls: Murkowski Has Support But Will Voters Write Her In?
To put it more practically, if an election really has to be the choice of the lesser of two evils, isn't it incumbent upon you to make sure who the lesser of two evils is?
The present incumbent of this numbered post is on secondment to St Mark's and has held his current appointment for 10 years.
North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency declared Friday "the nullification of all incumbent regulations and contracts regarding the Kaesong industrial complex.
The current incumbent may have more problems than most. Times, Sunday Times
In two mayoral elections over the past month in such towns, the pro-nuclear incumbents won landslide elections over anti-nuclear opponents. Living by Reactors, Japanese Are Split
Candidates declared to date are Vic Toews for the Conservative party, the incumbent, Peter Epp for the Liberals and Sarah Zaharia for the New Democrats.
With 3 boxes still uncounted, the incumbent has 49.91% in the four-way race.
It is also in part the result of the greater importance of the Council Presidency and the fact that the incumbent of this Office will often have an agenda which he or she wishes to see achieved.
The incumbent Kurdish President Massoud Barzani said all problems be settled through constitutional means.
it is incumbent on them to pay their own debts
Many believe that nationwide anti-incumbent sentiments worked in Flores 'favor this election season. Sommer Ingram: Rep. Chet Edwards Loses Texas Seat
Therefore, as much as possible, it is incumbent for a wireless provider to seek counsel as to the apparent and unapparent legal issues.
An election is coming and this is beginning to look like the issue the incumbents can use to show their difference from the opposition.
It is incumbent upon us to do so.
If they elect Ségolène Royal, Lambron believes, it will reflect a healthy desire for alternance (throwing out incumbents) and for a new way of seeing themselves in the mirror. The Royal Oui?
There was no doubt that it was incumbent upon the Respondent in making the ex parte application to make full and frank disclosure.
This proceeding was incumbent on all guests - high and low alike - and was intended to inculcate humility.
But the current incumbent has been something else. Times, Sunday Times
He had been a fine governor and a leader in welfare reform, and at the time of his death he was in a tight race with the incumbent, John Ashcroft, in the U.S. Senate race.
Some of the people who blindly followed the incumbent leader preferred to keep him so that they could benefit from his handouts.
For 12 months cameras will follow the fortunes of the St Mary Magdalene's, which at present is being looked after by a vicar from a neighbouring parish, as the new incumbent tries to make a difference.
But the broader fundamentals remain stacked in the Democratic incumbent's favor. Obama's role in Md. governor's race remains unclear as O'Malley visits White House
Gerrymandered districts all but guarantee most incumbents reelection, while term limits offer a perverse incentive for cynical self-promotion in furtherance of individual ambition over cooperative collaboration in service of the public interest. Phony Poll Critique; Why We All Can’t Just Get Along
A provost is the head of the cathedral chapter in a number of the Church of England's more recently created dioceses in which the cathedral is also a parish church and the provost is the incumbent.
While it is not an incumbent duty on either, considering their poverty, he will be doing an act of dutifulness which earns his parents and himself good reward.
And, no surprise, the first in line for the mike were the incumbents facing the iffiest re-election prospects this year. NPR Topics: News
In the 1988 Democratic primary in Delaware, a keypunch error gave Samuel Beard 2,800 votes more than he received in a race against incumbent Lt. Gov. Wisconsin Election Bombshell: How Plausible?
It has been estimated that two-thirds of parishes had a pluralist incumbent at some point during that period.
The acquisition of knowledge is a duty incumbent on every Muslim, male and female.
He visited the eclectic congregation systematically and, with the support of the incumbent, initiated weekly Bible studies, men's meetings and other teaching activities.
The incumbent officials no doubt feel the need to do something to boost their standing in the eyes of union members increasingly disillusioned with the erosion of conditions.
It has one of the best defensive profiles of [any] European incumbent, it's very underleveraged and [has] one of the sector's highest dividend yields. Belgian Stocks a Faint Light in the Dark
A benefice consisting of six parishes can commonly have five patrons who all have views on their incumbent.
Catania is running for one of two at-large seats against Democratic incumbent Phil Mendelson, Statehood Green candidate David Schwartzman and independent candidate Richard Urban. Catania offers sign-making help for Stewart/Colbert rally
Within a few weeks of a new incumbent arriving they will probably have forgotten the current young lady and have bonded with the new au pair. Times, Sunday Times
Districts—which are redrawn every 10 years after the U.S. Census—often split neighborhoods and communities in an effort to help incumbents win, the backers of reform say. Deal Sought on Districts
The Democrats have five states where they don't have an incumbent seat up, so it's a huge race for them.
It is incumbent upon the applicant to show compelling community support for the issuance of a new license.
In partial deference to that pOtential backlash, current incumbents did not actively seek committee endorsement.
The present more orthodox incumbent was a tough man as well as an Augustine; accustomed to risky assignments in Cairo.
A degradation of democratic processes presents a worse danger - the creation of a political class of unremovable incumbents, and the dreadful possibility of dictatorship.
John and Ken are also targeting an incumbent Democrat for removal from office.
They claim new technologies and rivals will emerge to disrupt the current incumbents. Times, Sunday Times
This helped incumbents in safe seats - precisely the people that the Agency theorists argue were the most exploitative. Times, Sunday Times
An early tradition established was that the incumbent president of the regatta organizing committee was the then commodore of the Royal Varuna Yacht Club, which holds the proprietary rights to the event.
In an election filled with partisanship and strong anti-incumbent feelings, viewers will see the race through the lens of incumbencies: which incumbents have fallen, when they were elected, the nationwide impact and more. CNN's Election Night Will Be Full Of Mindbending Technological Overkill
The incumbents often behave badly towards new entrants. Times, Sunday Times
The reapportionment of 2002 designed congressional districts that favored incumbents of both parties, leaving virtually no room for challengers to be elected.
He is good with a political attack or jibe, which is appealing to voters trying to find the magic trick to beating an incumbent. Slate Articles
However, Chrysobraya differs from Lepidostemon in having cotyledons incumbent instead of accumbent and staminal filaments toothless and wingless instead of winged and toothed.
It is incumbent on us to check our fact before make an accusation.
Some of the candidates running against incumbent PDP governors also say they're not allowed to place adverts and programs on state media, which they call a ploy to deny them access to the public. Nigerian Opposition Candidates Complain About Meeting Place Restrictions
Those proxy votes must be used in support of incumbent management unless the shareholder specifically instructs the bank otherwise.
I was delighted to hear, a couple of years ago, that barn owls had taken to peering into bedroom windows of flats in East Delhi, giving the incumbents the willies no doubt!
Mr Eroglu, a nationalist hardliner who opposes reunification with the Greek part of the island, took 50.4% of the vote, while the incumbent, Mehmet Ali Talat, trailed with 42.8%.
Once a selling point for lawmakers, congressionally directed spending – otherwise known as earmarks or "pork barrel" projects – is becoming a liability for many incumbents in Campaign 2010.
The precipitate, after standing for some hours, is freed from the superincumbent water by decanting, and the sediment is completely dried on blotting-paper, on which other blotting-paper is laid, and weights laid on it, until all moisture is removed.
The most vigorously contested races are for the Legislature, where term limits have forced out 13 Bay Area incumbents.
The office in the Kumbum lamasery is held for varying periods of time, depending partly on the incumbent's efficiency, but more perhaps on the number of his influential friends. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior

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