The phrase "mark the outset" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to mean to denote or indicate the beginning or start of something. Here is an example: "The opening line of the novel marked the outset of an emotional journey for the reader."
He is marked from the outset, and the ring becomes a symbol of the corruption of his authority.
Top 14 sides have been known to be easily distracted away from home but Clermont's determination was marked from the outset and the way the forwards celebrated neutralising a driving maul early in the second-half said everything about their focus.
And using force was ruled out by PM Mark Rutte from the outset because of the risk of escalating the conflict.
That the Soviet struggles with her past and the American with his potential future seems appropriate to the mythologies surrounding their respective homelands, at least from a contemporary point of view: Tanya's political milieu is destined to collapse, while Gabe's brash Americanisms mark him from the outset.
A sprightly sense of humor and an audacious way with images marked her from the outset as a distinctive talent.
Its full keyboard, trackball, slightly janky slide-up screen (crooked even in official photos), and considerable girth marked it from the outset as a phone only a real geek could love.
The maestro rummages through his published masterpieces with a magnifying glass, chortling and cackling away at his own precocious wit, his uncanny insight, his deliciously coy, tartly malicious style, and those cheeky turns of phrase that marked him from the outset as a veritable sperm whale in the mucky sea of literary arts and crafts, spewing winsomeness and wit from his blowhole.
Just as John Major never recovered his credibility after Black Wednesday, in 1992, Zapatero feared leading a government marked by policy failure from the outset.
Wells is taking on all of Wachovia's assets, marking them down $75 billion at the outset.
Of the 49 clinicians who stratify patients, 25 (51%) use oral regimens from the outset, in marked contrast to the 79 clinicians not stratifying by risk of whom only three (4%) used oral regimens (P<0.0001).
