Sentence examples for mark the approach from inspiring English sources

As November turned to December, a work gang just arrived outside the front window to set up the neighbourhood Christmas tree and mark the approach of the annual season of peace and good will.

An elderly widower, played with exquisite tenderness by Andrew Melville, holds his annual dinner to mark the approaching spring.

It's a big horizontal picture with a black hourglass marking the approach of death.

Among other plots, Jordan foiled a plan to bomb hotels and tourist sites frequented by Westerners during the celebrations marking the approach of the year 2000.

Later, out in the open and away from overhanging trees, a delicately luminous disc of light appears low in the south-west and marks the approach of the winter solstice.

Also called the Nian festival, the Lunar New Year and the Spring festival; Chinese New Year is based on the lunar calendar and marks the approach of spring.

Even putting aside issues such as civil liberties and the importance of nightclubs to the UK's cultural scene, there's still a huge question mark over the approach being pursued by the police and licensing authorities: What exactly does it achieve?

In ideal systems it does not matter which approach is used, but where non-ideality is marked, the 'thermodynamic' approach would appear to have advantage.

The 20th century opened with great hope but also with some apprehension, for the new century marked the final approach to a new millennium.

But in contrast to the high-profile raids that marked the enforcement approach of the Bush administration, no federal agents with criminal warrants stormed the company's factories and rounded up employees.

In the mid '90s tremendous progress has marked the pharmacological approach to HIV-1 disease, resulting in the almost complete reversal of the "death sentence" that was associated with the diagnosis of HIV infection and AIDS.