"Open seat" refers to an available or empty spot, typically used to describe a vacant seat in a public place or an unoccupied position in a meeting, event, or event venue.
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Analysts have examined the rankings parents provide when applying for
open seats in these cities as a means to discern the characteristics they value most.
Industry groups say they expect to keep an especially close eye on the dozen or so races
for open seats.
The number
of open seats for professional basketball players expanded by a factor of ten or more.
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with open seats for your profession.
Our team will reach out on your behalf, and inform parents of
open seats at your campus — or whatever your project requires.
Just as candidates value flexible work arrangements, they also prefer flexible work environments — such
as open seating and collaboration areas.
Seeking to
fill open seats is an eclectic batch of political newcomers who will be tasked with shaping city policy alongside a new mayoral administration.
Availability in business class was somewhat of an issue from some of the cities, so you might have to try a little harder to
find open seats for business class.
Two Republican senators have announced they will retire at the end of their current term,
leaving open seats; six Democratic senators have said they will retire as well.
Term limits can often have an impact on the competitiveness of a state legislative election because term limits
create open seats.
Breakfast and lunch
offer open seating while dinner requires reservations for either an early or late fixed dinner seating.
Open seats present opportunities for people that would rather not run against someone that's won before.
While six incumbent governors went down to defeat and eight
open seats changed partisan hands, only a few states saw many incumbent legislators defeated.
The application process is made more complicated because parents don't know the number of
open seats expected at schools each year.
This means that there are many routes with
open seats available for award tickets going empty, but you may have to call the airline mileage program to find them.
First, you should not assume award seats are available when an airline
first opens its seat inventory.
According to our study, there are approximately 10,000
open seats in private school today.
In total, nine candidates were running for four
open seats on the board.
In the nine districts
with open seats, all had general election competition.
We're going to have a number
of open seats and were going to have a number of incumbents that well be pounding away at.
Start attending school board meetings, run
for open seats, and challenge your administrators where you see waste.
Republicans have yet to lose a seat of their own —
winning open seats in Florida, Kentucky, Ohio, New Hampshire and Missouri.
«WFP candidates swept our priority races tonight, fending off a million - dollar expenditure from billionaires seeking to privatize education and winning key
open seat races that will shape the state Assembly for years to come.
In the general election, Republicans unseated three Democratic incumbents, won a vacant seat previously held by a Republican and won three
open seats after Democratic incumbents announced they were retiring, giving the conference a total of 32 seats.
During the 2012
open seat election, Hoylman came through the Democratic primary, then won an uncontested general election in which 93,469 registered voters cast a ballot for him.
These 83 districts are the remaining GOP - held seats the DCCC is targeting, plus several competitive
open seats currently held by Democrats, such as New Hampshire's 1st District and Minnesota's 1st District.
In races for state attorney general, Democrats ousted the incumbent in Kansas and picked up two
open seats from Republicans, increasing their hold on state top cop offices from 29 to 31, while the GOP picked up one Democratic seat in Wisconsin.
The conference is also trying to play some offense,
including open seats in Suffolk and Westchester counties as well as trying to knock off GOP incumbent Jack Martins.
A new poll conducted for wealthy businessman Mike Whalen's (R) campaign sheds some light on the state of play in eastern Iowa's 1st U.S. House district — one of the most
competitive open seats in the country.
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In addition to Ms. Barron, there are five
other open seats in the city following the election of ex-Senator Eric Adams to Brooklyn borough president, the expulsion of ex-Assemblyman Eric Stevenson after a corruption conviction and the successful campaigns of three Assembly lawmakers — Vanessa Gibson, Alan Maisel and Rafael Espinal — for the City Council.
(And, don't forget, that Republicans would also need to hold all of their competitive seats including
open seat contests in swing states like Missouri and Ohio as well as Florida where if Gov. Charlie Crist wins he could well caucus with Democrats.)
This morning the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee showed a bit of its hand in that regard with the release of its «Red to Blue» list of Republican - held districts and
open seats where the party believes it can win.
Incumbent William Gatz was the only person on the ballot and was elected to the other
open seat Tuesday night.
In the United States, Jerome Powell has replaced Janet Yellen as Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and there are
several open seats on the Board of Governors that need to be filled in 2018.
Incumbent GOP Rep. Reid Ribble's decision to retire
opened this seat up to a possible Democratic takeover, but the GOP district proved harder for Democrats to gain traction in.
«The
more open seats there are, the more victories we're going to have in November.»
Robert Mann, an aviation consultant and former American Airlines executive, said it would most likely be Tuesday before Delta's operations in Atlanta returned to normal, and for passengers «it could be most of the week» because there aren't
many open seats on other flights in the last week before Christmas.
Democrats will also be
defending open seats in Iowa, Michigan and New Jersey, where the playing field is better for the party.
While open seating is common in European stadiums, it is rare in stadiums and major arenas in the U.S.. On the other hand, some older U.S. arenas (e.g., the L.A. Coliseum, Chicago Stadium) are in depressed neighborhoods, which, the experts say.
But with a
newly open seat on Long Island and another seat potentially opening up, Democrats are preparing for another big battle in November.