Sentence examples for marking time to from inspiring English sources

The choreography, up against Nicolas Nabokov's sludgy score, veers from awkward mime and marking time, to occasional sparks and speed.

So he's marking time, to no one's advantage.

Before the introduction of emergency medicine, most physicians working in the ED were young recently graduated doctors who were marking time to get into a residency program.

They may be marking time to retirement and are concerned that their relatively high pay makes them a target for corporate cost cutters.

The shift from marking time to 'show what you know' and 'move on when ready' will take a generation to become widespread but it has the potential to better prepare more young people for the innovation economy.

Representatives to the talks here from Jordan, Lebanon and Syria appeared to be marking time, waiting to see what happens between Israel and the PLO.

The best artists here are woefully apocalyptic, representing the violence and chaos of this century, or marking time, counting down to the end.

As a result, business and banking is marking time waiting for something to happen rather than trying to make good things happen.

After a period when his career seemed to be marking time, Olivier descended on Stratford-upon-Avon to play Malvolio, Macbeth and Titus Andronicus in a single season.

But they often seem to be marking time.

The House of Representatives has seemed to be marking time on tobacco legislation until the Senate acts.