"He'll be marking time until this is resolved," said the Rev. Raymond Daley.
Another back-street pub marking time until it's boarded-up.
So, they are told, if they will only hold their convention marking time until Saturday they will win.
"Vamp till ready" is music-business jargon for this Zen-like ritual of marking time until performance overtakes preparation.
Sometimes, I believe, he just gets through his story before the composer does, and so he sort of marks time until the music is over.
Most Arabs would agree with the Syrian president's assessment: relations, they believe, will have to mark time until the Israelis choose themselves a new leader.
Though he had thought his studies at the seminary would be simply a way to mark time until the war ended, "Torah grabbed me," Rabbi Plaut later said.
"I will spend the rest of my life marking time until I can see my best friend again," said Mr. Weaver, who is 50.
In this scheme, when we die, we go to a cosmic waiting room where we mark time until our name is never again mentioned.
Meanwhile, the best the conventional political imaginations can come up with is tired thinking about a roads-and-bridges compromise deal to mark time until … what?
She recapitulated that experience in a picture book, "Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart" (2001), about two resourceful sisters who mark time until their incarcerated father comes home.
