Sentence examples for quickly marked from inspiring English sources

And now began that torrent of innovative historical and literary inquiry which quickly marked him as a twentieth-century luminary.

The movie was quickly marked as a battlefield in an epochal struggle: between "the kids" and their stodgy, respectable elders, between the hip and the square.

But what quickly marked them out from the rest of the young contenders was the brazen confidence backing up their songcraft and musicianship and the sheer, boundless scope of their ambition.

"They're always saying, 'Oh you creatives, trying to do something out-of-this-world.'" They must be doing it well, however, because once a team fails to be outstanding in this business, their cards are quickly marked.

Martin had worked his way to the top of the Whitehall machine by way of the Treasury, where he was quickly marked out as star material by being given a Private Secretary posting, to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, in 1999, only three years after he joined in 1996.

Port-au-Prince - In a crowded classoom in the Cite Soleil slum, Cloudier Pierre-Louis' ballot was snatched out of her hand, quickly marked and stuffed into a ballot box, one incident among many that led a dozen Haitian presidential candidates to denounce the elections and call for the arrest of President Rene Preval.

His turbulent playing career was marred by clashes with authority, his erratic behaviour and candour quickly marking him out as a 'bad boy'.

Doing away with constant markdowns was, on the face of it, sensible: instead of starting with a high price and quickly marking it down, start with a lower price.

Among the lessons learned, said Bradley Thomas, a retail analyst with KeyBanc Capital Markets, are keeping inventories lean, using marketing dollars strategically and quickly marking down slow-moving items so they do not have to be priced later at rock-bottom clearance prices.

After the grenade attack today, for example, Basra residents came to the British soldiers to tell them where the attack had come from, which allowed soldiers to quickly mark targets in a place they called Shantytown, outside the city, according to soldiers involved in the operation.

Off the top of our heads we can quickly mark up the fact that Joe's autism meant he very much didn't want to be the centre of attention, and who remembers a birthday for five-year-olds anyway, except the adults, although little Lucy probably bloody will, it being her first stark introduction to the singular unfairnesses of life.