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Incumbency in sentence

9 examples of Incumbency in a sentence

India’s national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency.
Although this stance cost the Social Democrats many votes, it was hardly enough to offset their main electoral advantage: the unseemly control over key public goods that the party has accumulated during its long incumbency.
Five years ago, Pan Yingli of Shanghai Jiao Tong University projected that, without accounting for other currencies’ incumbency advantage, the renminbi’s share of foreign-exchange reserves worldwide could reach 26% by 2025 (about the current level of the euro).
Accounting for the incumbency advantage, the share falls to 10%.
If incumbency were a permanent advantage, Goldman Sachs’ global headquarters would be in Babylon.
This is a reminder that incumbency is a considerable advantage in the competition for reserve-currency status.
The embedded energy infrastructure retains strong incumbency advantages, and markets do not value sustainability adequately or price waste and pollution fairly.
The fact that Maliki, despite his incumbency, has been unable to secure a second term seven months after the elections attests to the widespread opposition to his continued rule among Iraq’s political class.
His failure to win a second term, despite the numerous advantages of incumbency, will send a signal to ambitious politicians that populism and demagoguery are not the keys to victory.