Now that he was dead the role had a certain potentiality, like a vacant throne.

In 1403, after learning about his father's death in captivity, he began struggling for the vacant throne.

A peculiar light began to manifest itself over the vacant throne.

"In financial services, the opportunity to establish a pre-eminent global brand is a vacant throne," he added.

He was not asked to fill the vacant Hungarian throne.

Currently the prince is ninth in the line of succession to the vacant imperial throne.

That five years or maybe ten would go by with the throne vacant and there'd be no pressure to elect a new king?

Athanasius the Monk was a candidate for the vacant throne.

This assembly invited William and Mary to take what it considered to be the vacant throne.

She licked her lips, glancing again at the vacant throne.