This gives the incumbent party a huge advantage, but it also ensures that the LDP remains a party of patronage more than of policy.
The memory image would thus be a man, possibly one's friend, with a silk mantle pulling a golden bough with his mouth and giving it to the incumbent.
It is incumbent upon all users of this equipment to familiarize themselves with the safety procedure.
He needs to ensure a smooth transfer of power from an incumbent who is ideologically and temperamentally his polar opposite.
At the most recent election, in 2008, Tom Perriello, a Democrat, ousted the Republican incumbent by just 727 votes, even as the district voted against Barack Obama for President.
This is part of an older problem: the refusal of a defeated incumbent to accept defeat and bow out.
In the recent mayoral election in Kiev, her candidate lost to the incumbent, despite her insistence that “he is me without the plait”.
It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit.
she defeated Bill Halter, the state's lieutenant governor, who played heavily to anti-incumbent sentiment.
From wooden to winning during the campaign, when it was hardly a certainty that he would beat the incumbent Ann Richards, he had four issues--juvenile justice reform, tort reform, education and welfare reform.
His reformist rival, Mehdi Karroubi, a liberal cleric and former speaker of parliament, has also boldly attacked the incumbent.
Particularly if you have got an incumbent President and we no longer stick to the public financing, which was a result of the Watergate scandal.
Although they do not yet know who the opponent will be, Kentucky's Republicans know enough about their incumbent to be worried.
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