starting mark

He finally reached his starting mark at the edge of the pool, but the referee disqualified him for "deliberate delay."

His own starting mark confronted him.

He groped for some suitably scathing retort, but they were being motioned to the starting mark.

Crafty Pat Riley is starting Mark Jackson as of now for reasons of psychology and stability.

Standing at the top of the hill, he took a step back from his normal starting mark, preparing to embrace the Olympic motto of swifter, higher, stronger.

Mike Keenan is taking into consideration the option of starting Mark Laforest in goal against the Capitals here on Thursday night.

The two men approached the traditional Labor Day starting mark of one the most fluid contests in recent memory essentially even in the polls and in the eyes of both campaigns.

Player X can win or force a draw from any of these starting marks; however, playing the corner gives the opponent the smallest choice of squares which must be played to avoid losing.

For what Mr. Stoppard calls the "time slips" of Carr's memory, in which a scene reverses itself and starts over, Mr. Hupp inverts the lighting and has his characters waddle rapidly backward to their starting marks.