Taking responsibility for social actions like voting is a mark of good character.
We've never claimed authenticity, but whether that's achieved or not, it certainly has the kind of rigour that's always the mark of good work".
To have lovely handwriting, or a talent for poetry, was a mark of good character, in a former life as well as in the present one.
A knack for finding the apex, or the optimal turning point as a car moves through a corner, is also a mark of good racing instincts.
Yet the mark of good acting isn't the intentional display of such passions by actors but, instead, the radiating of those passions from the actors, even against their will.
It was the sort of discovery that is usually the mark of good police work: A Bronx detective came upon an online criminal enterprise that offered — for a low price — to hack into private e-mail accounts.
By Victorian times, the middle classes considered it vulgar to discuss money in the home, and a woman's ignorance of such matters was regarded as a mark of good breeding.
They now see me do it and say: 'Right, if you use that, you have to pay us $10.'" It is perhaps the ultimate mark of good parenting that our children outgrow us and eventually move on.
The mark of good dialogue is that it tells you something without informing you that it's told you something – the best, as heard here, does that and also manages to entertain, has a rhythm and sounds natural.
One of his movies may suggest an inward unity and spaciousness that seems a mark of good fiction, as in The Big Sleep; it may have the scope and resonance to fill a historical landscape worthy of Remington, as Red River does.
To some extent Islington's approach is not a high water mark of good practice, but only what every commissioner should be doing to ensure the sustainability and quality of services – although by using the London living wage, the council has gone further than this.
