"He has laid down a new marker," said Ivo Daalder, a foreign policy specialist at the Brookings Institution.
"And our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse". For Obama, the address was the laying down of a political marker, said Andrew G. Biggs, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
This particular reversal, labeled E23r, is consistently located just below the boundary, making it a convenient marker, said coauthor Dennis Kent, a paleomagnetism expert who is also at Lamont-Doherty.
"It's a very good thing the president did, because it's a marker," said Judith L. Lichtman, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families, a liberal advocacy group.
"I think that performance does lay down a marker," said Shaw. "You have seen the results of recent weeks, we keep improving and we want that to continue so that we can come out firing next season.
"Everyone left knows how each other plays, but when you're unbeaten in the round-robin and you have a really strong 1v2 game, it stamps down a good marker," said Muirhead.
"The soldiers had a map with them of the houses they wanted bulldozed, and outlined them with a blue marker," said Aisha Salah, whose house overlooks the field of destruction.
"A lot of people would think it is appropriate to exhume Henry's remains and give him a more prominent marker," said Mike Pitts, editor of British Archaeology magazine.
"The bottom line is no single marker, as a general rule, has had the sensitivity to be able to be used as a definitive marker," says David Sidransky, a cancer specialist at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
The marker facing westward said Tugulymskii Raion, and the eastward-facing marker said Tapitskii Raion.
