Sentence examples for had recently marked from inspiring English sources

In January, activists put up a tent village on Palestinian land in the area known to Israel as E1, which Netanyahu had recently marked for massive settlement expansion.

Investors had recently marked down the shares of mining companies amid fears that they would be unable to keep increasing production and raising prices as growth in China slows and capacity constraints hit expansion.

The publication of Underworld (1997), a multi-tracked 800-page chronicle of American society that aimed, gloriously and successfully, to embrace in retrospect the entirety of the Cold War period that had recently passed, marked the ultimate ascension of DeLillo into literary godhood, as well as the beginning of his relative decline.

The circuslike atmosphere in Brazil's Congress — which has recently been marked by shouting matches, protests inside the chamber and lawmakers spitting on one another — has provoked ire across the country.

"Wow!" said one of the group, whose needle had recently missed its mark.

The next stop was farther west along 125th, in front of the Adam Clayton Powell State Office Building, where Clinton had recently addressed a crowd to mark his arrival in the neighborhood.

Dr. Carlos Porcaro, a primary-care physician who has worked at Columbus for 51 years, said that the health department had recently given Columbus high marks for its surgical, cardiac and pneumonia care.

Buoys bounced like lost clown noses in the water, marking islands that had recently sunk and now served as boating hazards.

The patient -- who contracted the virus from a sexual partner who had recently visited a Zika-afflicted country -- marks the first case of locally acquired Zika in the U.S. The virus, which is spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, is strongly suspected to be linked to a new wave of microcephaly cases in Brazil.

Mr. Jobs, who had recently been ousted from Apple at the time, left quite a mark.

The woman had marks on her wrists that may indicate she had recently been bound, a law enforcement official said.