Примеры употребления для mark time
1. Japan is the very one which is forcing the talks to mark time and even back down, not making progress.
2. Bush revved up the troops, told them they were there not to mark time but to get things done, Bartlett said.
3. Labour‘s membership, which briefly surged above 400,000 in the 1''0s, is today half of what it was in 1''7, while Liberal Democrat numbers mark time at around 73,000.
4. US President George W Bush called Mr Sharon a "man of peace", but his years in office have seen the prospects for negotiated settlement diminish with the Palestinians and mark time with Syria.
5. "By dithering over the announcement, staff will not be getting the increase in their pay packets in April when it‘s due." The Royal College of Midwives‘ general secretary Dame Karlene Davis said: "In a time when the NHS is under severe financial constraint, this is no more than a mark time award but at least it maintains the integrity and independence of the pay review system.