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The teacher is busy marking papers.
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Have you finished marking the race route?
The channel's here on the chart. So are the marking lights.
Every letter marking a supply depot.
We're just marking time, you know.
Have you got a minute, Dad? - I'm marking time.
You've been marking time since I stopped you sleeping ashore when your wife was up here.
He's marking a trail for the posse.
Just marking time.
Marking it now, sir.
Now Chesterton, you start marking off a section with your feet, will you?
I'm saying you've been marking these cards.
Just marking my place.
We are marking time.
Well, if it's some new way of marking cards, Nick, don't listen.
So are the marking lights.
Without? We're just marking time, you know.
I'm marking time.
I'll be marking these papers accordingly.
He carves without marking.
I have finally received the Yakuza marking.
I mean, 75 is too early but at 85, you're just marking time.
Bill Roundtree got caught marking the queens.
Second, if the format 11 X 11 is rearranged, it can be made to form a square complete with diagonals, thus echoing the total shape of the project and marking, by the intersection of the diagonals, the central image of the project.
Elizabeth's been marking the days off the calendar.
By the time I had passed one point on this map nine times, it occurred to me I might in fact be marking time by arrangement, awaiting the convenience of future maps.
Just because you're marking time, getting all your psychological knots untied, don't think the rest of us are going to sit around twiddling our thumbs.
The Lord will take care of marking the road.
Somewhere far from here. the other bear would live as a subject. And Wahb the new king would select a marking tree. and make the sign that said all this wil derness. was now his territory.
Well, I mean, 75 is too early. but at 85 you're just marking time.
What's this marking?
We're marking out a new motorway.
Marking the position so we can find it tomorrow.
Marking time is what you are. You are backing off. You are hiding out.
Are you marking time or dancing or what?
Or are you just marking time, too?
The two are identical in color, with the same contrasting shoulder marking and long-legged gait.
News and current affairs
This is why almost all Lithuanians - indeed, most residents of the Baltic countries - feel queasy at the prospect of their leaders marking this anniversary in Moscow.
In a speech marking the state gas monopoly Gazprom's tenth anniversary in 2003, Putin stated his position explicitly, speaking of the company as one of the few strong geopolitical levers left to Russia after the Soviet collapse.
NEW DELHI - By marking the Cold War's end and the looming collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago transformed global geopolitics.
In August, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yasuo Fukuda, attended ceremonies in Beijing marking the 25th anniversary of the China-Japan Friendship Treaty.
Two weeks ago, when Obama had to choose between a meeting of ASEAN or the celebrations in Berlin marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall, he chose to go to Asia.
The National Bureau of Economic Research, the non-profit organization that has long been responsible for marking the beginning and end of America's recessions, has finally declared that the recession that it said began in March 2001 is over.
Yet, as Russia approaches the 60th anniversary of its victory over Nazi Germany, marking Stalin's role in that victory is proving to be damnably awkward.
In some quarters, pessimism, sad to say, dominated the recent celebrations marking the European Union's 50th birthday.
NEW YORK - The annual spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund was notable in marking the Fund's effort to distance itself from its own long-standing tenets on capital controls and labor-market flexibility.
If this pledge is adopted and respected, conflicts in the region will be viewed in a wholly different, more tolerant context, marking a historic breakthrough to peace.
Indeed, the year 2009 might even be a milestone marking a new era of volatility.
True, the Congress of Vienna is mostly viewed as marking the victory of Europe's reactionary forces after the defeat of Napoleon.
Among the promoters of this brilliant idea were Nazi war criminals who had settled in Syria and Egypt, where they gave their new masters lessons in marking Jewish shops and businesses.
In December 2007, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad performed the Hajj at the personal invitation of King Abdullah, marking the first time a head of state of the Islamic Republic was able to do so.
This conditioning effect continues and increases after birth, leading to different degrees of epigenetic marking in different organs.
NEW YORK - With March 20 marking the fifth anniversary of the United States-led invasion of Iraq, it's time to take stock of what has happened.
The war that was supposed to be a central pillar in a drive to restructure the Middle East under America's guidance ended up marking the decline of its influence there.
Yet it would be a mistake to regard Latin America's broadening international relations as marking the end of US preeminence.