Sentence examples for use of marks from inspiring English sources

Notable features include the use of marks rather than numbers around the dial, and a striking red second hand.

As noted above, Reichenbach anticipated formulations of probabilistic causal relevance advanced by Patrick Suppes in A Probabilistic Theory of Causality (1970), and the use of "marks" can be found in a somewhat different guise in Salmon (1984) and Dowe's (2000) work on causality.

We share the cooking, but we also make good use of Marks & Spencer - they pretty much do the finest food in the world.

Wiliam said very able pupils could fall victim to the increasing use of mark schemes designed to promote consistency between examiners.

As the stylebook cautions, "Resist the journalese use of mark to mean signify and, even more, to mean is or are".

"The problem is not mark-to-market so much as the recognition-and-realization period for revenues," said Paul Patterson, an independent energy analyst who has argued for changing the use of mark-to-market accounting in the industry.

Mr. Wyatt showed up at the company's annual meeting in Dallas in May to denounce the company's use of mark-to-market accounting, which allows El Paso to book immediately its long-term profits on the restructurings.

Enron's use of mark-to-market accounting and S.P.E.s was an accounting game that made the company look as though it were earning far more money than it was.

Traditionally, Batswana pastoral households used a wealth of knowledge acquired and refined over time to identify their animals by the use of marking techniques such as hot iron branding or ear marks and skin colour.

"A penalty of ten points will be imposed against a team if any member demonstrates an excessive use of marking rounds (fire control and intentional improper targeting of body parts, i.e., headshots)," reads the Urban Shield Exercise Plane.

Skilling constantly focused on meeting Wall Street expectations, advocated the use of mark-to-market accounting (accounting based on market value, which was then inflated) and pressured Enron executives to find new ways to hide its debt.