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Discover LudwigThe phrase "was being canceled" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action that was in progress but has now been stopped or called off, typically in the past tense. Example: "The event was being canceled due to unforeseen circumstances."
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The law firm's 2012 summer internship program, which would have paid the students more than $3,000 a week, was being canceled.
Company officials said the program was being canceled in part because the few hundred dollars the city made per installation was not enough.
Mr. Perevenzentsev of ORT said the press service had recently informed him that the accredition of his fellow ORT correspondent Pavel Spirin was being canceled.
A spokesman for the administration of Governor Bush in Tallahassee said the governor's office had been notified that the trip was being canceled but had not been told why.
An official of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus told the 124-person cast and crew after the New Year's Eve performance that a planned move to San Diego was being canceled and that their services were no longer required.
James E. Bassett III, the Keeneland chairman, said he had received calls from worried horsemen saying they had heard that Keeneland's July yearling sale, the premier sale held by the industry's most prestigious company, was being canceled.
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It said one flight was being cancelled but remaining flights would be according to schedule.
RWE said it was being cancelled as it was "not viable... to continue with development in the Bristol Channel Zone" because of "technological challenges and market conditions".
Former Fulham captain Brede Hangeland says he was "immensely disappointed" to be informed that his contract with the Cottagers was being cancelled via email rather than in person.
But there were no diplomatic niceties or talk about scheduling conflict to explain why the September meeting in Moscow was being cancelled.
However, the British Harness Racing society announced on its website that the annual festival was being cancelled after a large number of withdrawals.
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