Sentence examples for was being vacated from inspiring English sources

Both men ran for the Senate seat that was being vacated by Jesse Helms last year.

In 2000, Mr. Treffinger ran for the Senate seat that was being vacated by Frank Lautenberg, but he lost the primary to former Representative Bob Franks.

When the bosses of the Martha Graham Dance Company, long stuck in cramped quarters, heard that this space was being vacated, they got on the phone.

The Republicans also sent Representative Lindsey Graham to fill the South Carolina Senate seat that was being vacated by Senator Strom Thurmond, while former Gov. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, a two-time presidential candidate, kept that state's Republican Senate seat.

At 1111 Midland Avenue, near the Cross County Shopping Center, a nice one-bedroom co-op for around $145,000 was being vacated by a young couple buying a house.

As far as the storage industry was concerned, then, all the contemporaneous chaos of Elizabeth's and her parents' lives ultimately amounted to a wash: one old unit was being vacated, one new one was being rented.

The seat is being vacated by Jim Ramstad, a Republican.

Instead space is being vacated for extremists, notably religious fanatics, who pose a growing threat.

The seat is being vacated by Senator Peter G. Fitzgerald, a first-term Republican.

Several other posts to be filled are being vacated by women, including Hilda Solis, the secretary of labor, and Lisa Jackson, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator.

Mrs. Clinton is looking to fill the seat that is being vacated this year by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat who is retiring.