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It also means that start-up firms lacking the deep pockets of incumbents should be able to get a foot in the door.

New entrants might be able to make lifts but would struggle to compete with the comprehensive maintenance networks of the incumbents.

The web has been a brilliant, liberating and disruptive innovation. It has created opportunities for incumbents and start-ups alike.

Still, Indians typically have it against incumbents; they now seem ready to give the opposition a hearing.

One way of doing this would be to promote open standards to ensure that proprietary incumbents do not abuse a dominant position.

In the Senate, 12 Democratic incumbents are seeking re-election, and only one seems to be facing a serious challenge.

With its strong brand and its bundle of fixed, mobile and broadband services, Orange poses a threat to incumbents in other countries.

With the national mood so hostile to incumbents, it probably did not help that he is the fifth-oldest senator, and sounds it.

The governor's office and a Senate seat are up for grabs, with no incumbents running.

Incumbents are going to have to get more efficient and increase their productivity.

Whether Mr Bennett is a bellwether for other incumbents up for re-election remains to be seen.

But this year conservatives were feeling particularly furious with the establishment and with incumbents.

The WPK itself had seemingly slipped into obscurity until a few years ago, with most of the top posts unfilled after incumbents died.

These triumphs may be par for the course; after all, the government is as unpopular as incumbents in dismal economic times tend to be.

Allowing competition while neither privatising nor killing off the original state incumbents means big losses at some dying public firms.

And a turbulent, anti-politics mood, stirred by the tea-party movement, is making even incumbents nervous.

In September 1995, Mr Tsang was appointed Financial Secretary, the first Chinese to hold the position after 150 years of British incumbents.

Yet the rise of new economic powers always brings problems as well as opportunities for incumbents. New companies displace old ones.

Unlike other incumbents, BT has no mobile arm, having spun off O2 to reduce its debts.

The sanctity of law is raised like a great banner by which the pride of the incumbents is strengthened.

Zuckerberg's advice to "incumbents, " as he calls technology giants: "Get on the bus. "

They're all solving new problems that the incumbents not only can't attack, they also can't even begin to understand.

The commissioners do not even have voter-registration statistics or the addresses of incumbents.

Democratic campaign consultants see opportunities here for insurgent campaigns against Republican incumbents.

Over the next 10 years, the battles between incumbents and software-powered insurgents will be epic.

From France to Austria, centre-leftists failed to harness dislike of conservative incumbents.

But steady as she goes sells better for incumbents than challengers.

One proposed panacea is more competition in banking, by encouraging new entrants, if not by breaking up the big incumbents.

This year's rankings continue the shift to emerging market brands that have expanded globally and taken on western incumbents.

The public interest merges seamlessly with the private interest of the incumbents.

Incumbents survived as natural monopolies because they did not exercise their market power.

Fumble a decision on Ivory Coast, and this may well legitimise all manner of incumbents holding on to power unconstitutionally.

The City signalled its welcome to foreign financial firms by sweeping away cosy club rules that protected domestic incumbents.

At the same time, the incumbents were allowed to operate in each other's markets (Telecom Argentina in the north and TASA in the south).

While unseating corporate directors is even more difficult than dislodging political incumbents.

While many incumbents' plans remain in flux, approximately 25 representatives are likely to vacate their seats after this Congress.

'The voters, I think, are just looking for change, and that means bad news for incumbents and in particular for the Democrats. '

these votes have tended to be cast consistently in favour of incumbents.

Proprietary software incumbents have been forced to respond and adapt.

A determination to be better adults than the present incumbents is fine, but to refuse to grow up at all is just plain unrealism.

The incumbents, he says, will generate "fundamentally lower levels of earnings than we've seen historically. "

Historically, incumbents have enjoyed a better-than-average chance of being re-elected.

They are unhappy that only one of the nine incumbents is female.

Corporate experts believe the incumbents' motivation is crucial when picking a successor.

Two weeks later, in several state elections, incumbents were ousted over economic issues, not security.

He also went around the country doing what only incumbents can do: spending federal money to get votes.

This comes as other national incumbents are seeking to protect their market positions through equity tie-ups.

Start-ups that survived, however, were 3% more productive than mature incumbents; five years later they were 5% more productive.

Such ties have usually hobbled low-cost airlines elsewhere: incumbents hate to cannibalise their own business.

Monitor and direct the professional development of incumbents reporting to this position.

VOTERS are meant to be furious with incumbents this year.

This is not to say centre-right incumbents are in good shape.

In some countries a rigging of the labour market in favour of incumbents and against the young makes what new jobs there are inaccessible.

Moreover, most of its offerings have to compete against popular incumbents, such as Facebook, Apple's iTunes store and Google Maps.

By offering cheap and convenient care they expose the costly incumbents of health-care delivery.

Telford's counterparts at Cisco (CSCO), EMC, HP, IBM, and the other incumbents share similar sentiments.

In the past year, according to Morgan Stanley, six out of 11 incumbents have been returned to office.

Many popular incumbents, however, are weathering the downturn well.

Another argument the incumbents use concerns liability.

International passenger traffic and some domestic routes are now open to competitors to state-owned incumbents.

Another effect of campaign-finance laws is to protect incumbents.

These companies have not only taken on Western incumbents, snapped up Western companies and launched exciting new products.

Over the past two decades, the incumbents have repeatedly lost elections.

In 2006 Mr Ellsworth was elected to Congress from the "bloody eighth" , a southern district fond of booting out incumbents.

Incumbents in Ohio and Iowa, Mr Strickland and Chet Culver, respectively, were punished for their states' economic woes.

Massive market with vulnerable incumbents. $2 trillion is a lot of money.

Many incumbents were themselves new companies less than a decade ago, and they are nimbler than the big guys they toppled.

Overall, 21 incumbents lost their seats, among them several prominent Sunni Islamists.

This arrangement yields a wonderful gain to incumbents.

The incumbents have a point, though: For larger corporations, going full cloud is not simple.

With Brazil booming, that means fat and easy profits for incumbents.

The movement is blamed for the high level of vitriol directed at incumbents in this election cycle.

Voters also showed their desire for political renewal by ejecting from Congress many incumbents who had sat there since 1990.

The private cloud is everything the incumbents love.

But when people are suffering, they tend to blame incumbents.

There is also a clan struggle over who gets to occupy government positions, with incumbents frequently shot dead.

Thornell says the Democrats have more than 30 strong challengers running against Republican incumbents and another 11 vying for open seats.

Any incumbents thus dislodged can bid on any room in the following round.

Faced with the Skype threat, incumbents have a horrible innovator's dilemma.

And some nimble small ones will sprint past slower incumbents.

In 2011 some of the most venerable incumbents will show the world that they have figured out how to do the creative destruction themselves.

You are each incumbents to the Royal throne.

The competitive landscape gets altered because the Internet allows insurgents to play by different rules than incumbents.

For now he can savour his victory, having added Mr Fenty to the swelling ranks of incumbents undone by economic turmoil.

They met it, while the incumbents had trouble meeting it because of their existing relationships.

One answer is that few incumbents are popular nowadays.

Web 2. 0 communities have paved the way for new startups offering alternatives to technology incumbents, such as Microsoft and IBM.

The response from the incumbents, the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, has been to buy them.

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