Sentence examples for marker against from inspiring English sources
At about 10 p.m., Carroll, in celebration, hurled a marker against a wall.
It might set a marker against your name that you're not one to passively accept rejection, but instead try to turn a negative into a positive.
He must use this period to put down a marker against the kind of budget he needs to begin to resolve these problems.
They later discovered police had placed a marker against their car registration on the database, triggering an alert – "of interest to public order unit, Sussex police" – each time they drove beneath an automatic number plate reading camera.
A show isn't "bad" because it doesn't match your own life experience, but producers can use a show's poor performance as a marker against which they make future investment decisions.
The Cottagers came back from 2-0 down to draw with Norwich City, lost unfortunately against Aston Villa away and have now laid down a marker against the pacesetters.
Should Wenger be deprived of Vermaelen, can he afford to risk Campbell in his usual role as a man-marker against a 24-year-old predator who has already scored 21 goals in all competitions this season?
The son of a chicken farmer maintained that form at the tournament itself as Croatia excelled in their group, tormenting his markers against Turkey and the Czech Republic, and then Juanfran in the victory against Spain.
Leave a libero and two markers against one striker and that means one of the markers is redundant (and, as a marker, probably not that adept at stepping into midfield), which in turns means a side will be a player short elsewhere on the pitch.
Foursquare's stockpile of location-data breadcrumbs has allowed the company to steadily augment its map of the world, and to test the fuzzy signals it receives from users' phones (the service gleans from G.P.S., Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth, and from other markers) against the eleven billion definitive check-ins provided by its users over the past seven years.
In a second experiment we investigated a range of fluorescent markers against a basal concentrate and barley straw diet.
