Example sentences of "marking the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no generally recognized date marking the end of our imperial era . |
| 2 | Suez , in 1956 , may have been a buoy in the main stream of British history , marking the end of empire and the beginning of the post-imperial era , but the course taken by Britain when rounding that buoy was based upon her experiences since the end of the Second World War . |
| 3 | They said this latest massacre occured on Sunday at a mosque in the village of Sikdarpara , near Muangdaw , as the Rohingyas offer their eid prayers , marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan . |
| 4 | THE Cammell Laird shipyard is to close next July marking the end of a proud chapter in British history . |
| 5 | As a result of the ‘ crisis of wholeness ’ , which Erikson sees as marking the end of childhood , I was attempting to achieve a ‘ sense of inner identity ’ . |
| 6 | The road took them between the old splendour of the Khulafa and the Gailani mosques , and across the railway track that wound half the length of the country to Arbil , and out through Housing Project Number Ten , and through the concretescape of Saddam City , the Chairman 's way of marking the end of the Iranian war . |
| 7 | Although the six cased their announcement as marking the end of the Unix GUI wars — and Sun chief Scott McNealy was finally heard uttering support for the dreaded ‘ M ’ word — reaction to the news was mixed . |
| 8 | Eventually , in January 1981 , the remaining 52 hostages were freed when $7.9 billion worth of frozen Iranian assets were returned marking the end of a humiliating experience for the world 's wealthiest and apparently most powerful nation . |
| 9 | The internal pauses are brief , none exceeding o.s seconds , but the final pause marking the end of the paratone is long ( I.6 seconds ) . |
| 10 | This predominantly one-directional social mobility was the pattern up until the quadrupling of oil prices in the winter of 1973 — 4 , an event which , for the purposes of this book , is accepted as marking the end of the post-war period in Britain . |
| 11 | The difficulty of drawing a line marking the end of Old English and the beginning of Middle English is increased by the varying speeds of change of the different dialects . |
| 12 | A thermos of soup , cups , a plate of sandwiches waited on an ugly silver tray in the hall ; a domestic attention marking the end of the party . |
| 13 | What was important was that in the event of a START treaty marking the end of the START process — the discussion on nuclear disarmament between the main nuclear powers — the secondary nuclear powers , such as ourselves , France and China , should try to retain , maintain or , indeed , establish a dialogue with the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | National referendums held in November 1988 ( see pp. 36505-06 ; 36320 ) and February 1989 ( see p. 36475 ) overwhelmingly approved amendments to the country 's 1976 Constitution , transferring power away from the presidency and effectively marking the end of one-party state socialism . |
| 15 | An interim President , Said Mohamed Djohar , was appointed , who subsequently won elections contested by several parties in March 1990 , thus marking the end of one-party rule [ see p. 37309 ] . |
| 16 | In his welcoming remarks Bush stressed that " the success of this summit depends not on the agreements we will sign but on our efforts to overcome division and discord , to build a world of peace in freedom " ; Gorbachev also highlighted the symbolic significance of the summit as marking the end of the " prejudice , mistrust and animosity " of the Cold War . |
| 17 | On June 27 Israel Galeano , the " contra " military chief known as Commander Franklyn , and 100 of his soldiers handed in their weapons to UN forces in a formal act marking the end of 11 years of civil war . |
| 18 | The elections were also regarded as marking the end of " cohabitation " between President Mário Soares , a former secretary-general of the PS , and the PSD government of Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva . |
| 19 | Ali Mahdi Mohammed was sworn in on Jan. 29 in Mogadishu as President of Somalia , marking the end of the 21-year rule of President Mohammed Siyad Barre , who had fled the capital three days earlier . |
| 20 | Djohar , who was appointed interim President after the assassination in November 1989 of Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahman [ see pp. 37033-34 ] , in March 1990 won presidential elections contested by several parties , thus marking the end of one-party rule [ see p.37309 ] . |
| 21 | National referendums held in November 1988 [ see pp. 36320 ; 36505-06 ] and February 1989 [ see p. 36475 ] overwhelmingly approved amendments to the Constitution transferring power away from the presidency and marking the end of what had been in effect a one-party state . |
| 22 | The announcement , which followed a meeting of 364 UDF leaders , was widely seen as marking the end of an era in the anti-apartheid struggle . |
| 23 | President Moaouia Ould Sidi Mohamed Taya , in a speech on April 15 marking the end of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan , responded to pressure on his government from a number of sources with an unexpected announcement on future democratization . |
| 24 | President José Eduardo dos Santos joined an estimated 40,000 people who took part in an ecumenical thanksgiving Mass in a sports stadium in the capital , Luanda , on June 2 , marking the end of 16 years of civil war . |
| 25 | retired from at the end of June marking the end of an era for many employees at the Essex mill . |