Sentence examples for began a vacation from inspiring English sources

On the same day that Senator John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee, began a vacation at his home in Sun Valley, Idaho, Mr. Bush was caught by the television cameras in a sea of cheering troops, a backdrop meant to emphasize what the president considers his greatest electoral strength, his record on national security.

He begins a vacation on Thursday in North Carolina on an island that is home to Mr. Edwards.

Katie had been working at another bar, but was fired in June after landing in Cancun to begin a vacation.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown took part by telephone in an emergency meeting of officials on Friday from southern England, where he had begun a vacation.

Felicity Barringer THE DEMOCRATS GORE 'MULLING' OVER NO. 2 Speculation may be swirling around Vice President Al Gore's decision on a running mate, but Mr. Gore was the picture of tranquillity yesterday as he sought to begin a vacation with his family on a private island off North Carolina.

It begins in the Tokyo of 1982, where a 27-year-old office worker is about to begin a vacation.

Far from the chaos of Yankee Stadium and the outrage they left behind last weekend, the Mets began a short vacation from hysteria.

Mr. Bush, who began a weeklong vacation on Friday at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., ordered his chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., to lead an administrationwide review of the recommendations and to report to him "as quickly as possible," a spokeswoman said.

Aides said he had been swimming and working on a jigsaw puzzle as he and his family began a weeklong vacation at the five-bedroom seaside home of Parker and Becky Overton, the Greenville couple who own a sporting goods business and have been longtime friends of the Gores.

President Bush began a 31-day vacation, which only added to the image among some critics that "W" is a loafer.

In August 2005, the mother of a soldier killed in the Iraq War set up a makeshift camp near Bush's ranch on the same day he began a five-week vacation, saying she wouldn't leave until she was granted a meeting with the president.