Sentence examples for were not being evacuated from inspiring English sources

De Blasio declined to go into details but said that although roads were closed to traffic, residents were not being evacuated from either of the two sites of investigation.

Other buildings in the area - including a nursery and the local Crown Prosecution Service office - were not been evacuated.

But very quickly, the staff realized they weren't being evacuated to safety.

Inmates at Rikers Island are not being evacuated because the island is elevated and so not in any of the three evacuation zones, said Samantha Levine, a City Hall spokeswoman.

It wasn't till later, after I'd scoured every news website for what little detail they revealed, and fired off an email full of unrepeatable language asking why on earth she wasn't being evacuated and sent home, that I read the crucial sentence.

Again, maybe I'm missing something here -- but I can't understand why people aren't being evacuated, at least in the most high-risk areas within 6 feet from seas level.

The phosphorus had stopped burning by late tonight, officials said, but most of the residents who were evacuated were not being permitted to return to their homes.

But his colleague, Edward Beyea, was quadriplegic and could not be evacuated without help from firefighters.

The 700 tenants in the Camden blocks will not be evacuated but the council is immediately launching 24-hour fire prevention patrols to ensure the buildings remain safe.

Despite those concerns, the hardest-hit area in this city has not been evacuated and aid has been slow in coming.

In a major American city whose neighborhoods and streets are now submerged under water befouled by garbage, gas and debris, and whose hospitals -- if they have not been evacuated -- are overflowing, the authorities could have their hands full maintaining a decent level of public health.