1.   Bush also has avoided the public blame that incumbent leaders receive, usually unfairly, when the economy turns sour.

2.   Israeli voters, placing slips of paper into envelopes, will chose between incumbent Labor leader Shimon Peres and Likud challenger Benjamin Netanyahu for prime minister.

3.   It was a striking victory for an incumbent national Republican leaders had labeled a do-nothing senator and targeted for defeat.

4.   Laws governing political parties are crafted to protect incumbent party leaders.

5.   Netanyahu won by the slimmest of margins over incumbent Israeli leader Shimon Peres, but he won.

6.   The incumbent leader, Hun Sen, appeared to have won, but his rivals, Norodom Ranariddh and Sam Rainsy, protested the outcome.

7.   Unlike old smokestack industries, Schmalensee said, the software business requires even the incumbent leaders to move quickly, to keep prices low and to innovate continually.

8.   For one thing, no one dares to challenge the incumbent leader.

9.   He lost to Soglo in elections the following year, becoming the first incumbent leader on the continent to be ousted at the polls.

10.   Reports, which Tudjman has denied, claim that the incumbent Croatia leader is suffering from cancer.