Sentence examples for held vacant from inspiring English sources

But the barren streetscape remains, owing at least in part to a handful of property owners who have held vacant land and buildings in the neighborhood for decades.

For example, Mr. Abelow said, direct care positions like hospital employees whose positions are critical and cannot be held vacant will not be included.

Which is partly why, when Bradfield introduces the chip-pan-headed chav from The Enemy as a "fucking genius", and lets him strum irrelevantly through "You Love Us" in the stage-right spot perpetually held vacant for Richey, this long-term Manics fan feels a little queasy.

In his resignation letter, he cited professional and personal obligations, including a need to return to an endowed chair that the University of Virginia has held vacant for four years and to pay "some truly riveting obligations to college bursars" for his children's education.

The law also permits the landlord to "warehouse" -- or hold vacant -- up to 10percentt of the total number of apartments in the building.

The Hampton Court conversion also demonstrates the desirability of a certain amount of "warehousing" - holding vacant apartments unrented - when the purpose is to promote building improvements as part of a noneviction conversion plan.

An average middle-income household whose only real estate holding is the unmortgaged portion of a home may not be in position to donate that valuable asset, but Mr. Magnuson notes that there are many others who own second homes, have inherited houses or hold vacant land and commercial property.

Goodhue held the vacant land at 5 East 95th Street until 1928, when he sold it to Mabel Drury, a granddaughter of Elbridge Gerry, the philanthropist who founded the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

But unlike the U.S. wannabe's often held in vacant cornfields, Les Fetes de la Nouvelle-France, as they call it in this French-speaking city, is staged on cobblestone plazas within thick protective walls.

As my colleague Molly Hennessey-Fiske wrote, Harris County sheriff's spokesman Thomas Gilliland "cited the rash of parties youths held in vacant Southern California homes earlier this year in an effort to mimic the movie 'Project X,' gatherings advertised online that drew hundreds and included drugs and alcohol".

It's a free-market concept that arose in the 1990s, when high-speed housing bubbles paralleled economic expansion; the idea is that landlords are able to free their properties from rent control or rent stabilization by holding them vacant for a specified period of time.