Sentence examples for global marks from inspiring English sources

Phelps's record was one of six global marks to fall on the fourth day of competition at the Foro Italico outdoor pool.

After Athens, Trickett proceeded to win a total of 18 gold, 4 silver, and 2 bronze medals in five major international meets, twice lowering the 100-m short-course world record and anchoring Australian 4 × 100-m medley relay teams to short-course and long-course global marks.

"The launch of BlackSky Global marks a major leap forward in opening up access to images from space and enabling constant global awareness," said Peter Wegner, BlackSky Global's chief technology officer and former director of the U.S. Air Force Operationally Responsive Space Office.

That adornment came later, during the awards ceremony, when Lochte received the gold medal after making off with Phelps's global mark.

In 2006, Jones became the first African-American to break a long-course world record when he was part of the United States relay team that set the global mark that fell Sunday night.

Sarah Sjoestroem's global mark of 56.06, which she set at the 2009 world championships while wearing one of the buoyant suits that have since been outlawed, was safe for at least another meet.

Her time of 2 minutes 4.06 seconds was more than a second better than her previous best and shattered Kirsty Coventry's three-year-old global mark of 2 04.81.

Farah, then, will be on a British revival mission when he makes his debut in the 2014 Virgin London Marathon – after first testing himself to the halfway mark against a field including the present world record holder Patrick Makau (whose global mark stands at 2 03 38) in this year's London race on 21 April.

The current top R-rated film in the US and Canada is Mel Gibson's 2004 The Passion of the Christ, with $370m; the best global mark is held by the Wachowski's 2003 sci-fi sequel The Matrix Reloaded, with $742m.

Radcliffe holds the world record of 2 15:25 and also the world-record-in-waiting of 2 17:42, which will become the official global mark if the International Association of Athletics Federations' proposal of recognising performances from solely women-only races comes into operation on 1 January.

French PM calls for increased surveillance Please wait a moment for the live blog to load The cover shows the weeping Mohamed, holding a sign reading "je suis Charlie", which has become a global mark of solidarity, with the words "all is forgiven" written above him.