Sentence examples for a marker for a future from inspiring English sources
You may wish to lay down a marker for a future discussion on democratization and human rights concerns.
The surly abstainer was Belgium, which held out for its candidate, Paul de Grauwe, an economist though mainly to put down a marker for a future Benelux candidate.Mr Papademos fits the job's needs, at least.
Though the committee members will be told to vote their conscience, their decisions are often a forgone conclusion, as a decision to admit may well help the college's president, John M. McCardell Jr., say thank you for a contribution (more than $1 million is not unheard of) or help him collect a marker for a future gift.
A week ago, Theresa May, the Home Secretary, said in a wide-ranging speech seen as her putting down a marker for a future Tory leadership contest: "We have to become the party that takes power from the elites and gives it to the people, the party not just of those who have already made it, but the home of those who want to work hard and get on in life".
But ambiguous comments in the past few days, notably by Mr Xiang, the finance minister, appear to be throwing down a marker for a devaluation at some point in the future.This means that things may well get worse for beleaguered Asians before they get better.
The only remaining challenger, Harold Ford, a 32-year-old from Tennessee, is putting down a marker for his future ambitions.This is a disaster for the Democrats.
Are these cases laying down a marker for the future by convicting old men for behaviour once commonplace (most of the claims against Travis were for groping)?
At less than 40 minutes long, Vampire Weekend sounds paradoxically both brimming with confidence and something put down as a marker for the future.
Gyassi Zardes put down a marker for the future too, without ever quite suggesting he had definitively arrived at international level.
