incumbent
titular
definition
noun
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.
the holder of an office or post.
adjective
it is incumbent on all decent people to concentrate on destroying this evil
necessary for (someone) as a duty or responsibility.
the incumbent president had been defeated
(of an official or regime) currently holding office.
translation of 'incumbent'
noun
beneficiado,
titular
adjective
que le incumbe,
incumbido,
obligatorio
example
And the 'incumbent' governor of Mississippi is a Democrat.
Instead of highlighting the brutality sustaining the 'incumbent' regimes in power, these analysts blame the victims.
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' .
In a democracy, on the eve of a quadrennial election, the 'incumbent' government plainly has a motive to encourage the media to report positively on its record but also negatively on the rival.
‘If we were heads of these localities, we might act in the same way as these 'incumbent' officials did,’ Lee admitted.
These models essentially confirm that the level of economic pain we are now feeling is not commensurate with voting an 'incumbent' president out of office.
The very idea of the present 'incumbent' supporting a factory occupation is laughable.
And while the official results are still coming in it appears 'incumbent' governments across Europe have suffered at the hands of voters.
It is difficult to defeat an 'incumbent' governor.
Each year the 'incumbent' officials perform ceremonies to remember the event.
They were media events, too, staged as much for the international press corps as to put pressure on the 'incumbent' regimes.
Elections in which an incumbent president is running typically are referenda on the job performance of the 'incumbent' .
They are also calling on the city executive to stop transferring workers who are aligned with political opponents of 'incumbent' officials.
Without question, survival is a basic goal of 'incumbent' regimes of all nation-states; North Korea is no exception.
Meanwhile, the legislative districts are designed to protect the 'incumbent' .
Thus, in mulling over a formula for my ideal PM, I found it helpful to consider separately the office, the 'incumbent' , the candidate.
Then as now, a majority of the electorate disapproved of the 'incumbent' 's performance.
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.
Needless to say, it implies that the business environment of Korea has deteriorated throughout the final year of the 'incumbent' government.
Yet, the 'incumbent' government has been generous to the group by taking lenient measures against its members who are on police's wanted list for their unlawful activities over the past years.
He visited the eclectic congregation systematically and, with the support of the 'incumbent' , initiated weekly Bible studies, men's meetings and other teaching activities.
Eleven years after he took up the Festival's reins, with two more to run on his current contract, he is now the longest-serving 'incumbent' of a post he has described as ‘the best job in the world’.
Unless an 'incumbent' government takes an active interest in improving the supply of public services, benign neglect will inevitably lead to a gradual deterioration.
Notwithstanding widespread fears that the President to-be would be a clone of the present 'incumbent' , the reality may be different.
It is a small union and it does not take many votes to defeat an 'incumbent' official.
The present 'incumbent' is I think magnificent at not being rattled by anything.
Later Prime Ministers were unwilling to challenge those interests; the present 'incumbent' may be unable to do so.
The GNP is standing at the crossroads, facing a road to a permanent opposition party or being reborn as the main pillar to support national politics as the alternative force of the 'incumbent' regime.
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.
He is a decent, honest man, though given to prolixity; no genius, but then certainly no worse than the present 'incumbent' .
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