Women have been told their entire lives, in one way or another, that getting paired off with a man is the ultimate marker of successful femininity.
She talks about how female comic-book fans have already begun donning Krysten-Ritter-as-Jessica-Jones costumes at conventions, perhaps the ultimate marker of a breakthrough superhero role.
It is as if, after a century of flirting with imported ideas of the secular nation state, the region is reverting to the Ottoman Millet system (from the Arabic millah, literally "nation"), which represented a view of the world that made religion the ultimate marker of identity, and classified Ottoman subjects by their various sectarian religious "nations".
Others will cite the use of metaphors, similes and references to classics, myths, and symbols as the ultimate marker.
"Marriage equality is being used as this ultimate marker of LGBTI rights, but for many individuals it's still about being able to live, and having the will to live," Powell said.
The identification of ultra-rare tumor-specific mutations in blood would be the ultimate marker to measure efficacy of cancer therapy and/ or early recurrence.
Moreover, cardiorespiratory fitness has been called the ultimate marker for risk stratification and health outcomes [ 34].
Although the construct of doctors as healers, with cure the ultimate marker of success, remains a strong societal narrative, it is problematic in the context of multimorbidity arising from progressive incurable diseases.
Although the presence of the genetic link is sometimes seen as the ultimate marker of parent child connections, as a necessary, or at least as a desirable component of such relationships, there are also those who warn about the negative effects of the unquestioned attachment to it.
Indeed, the DNA, RNA and peptide sequencing are becoming the ultimate molecular markers, with special emphasis on the DNA.
