English-German translation for "to mark-off"

to mark-off (also: to mark out, to mark down, to zone)

     wide off the mark

     quick off the mark

     He is an agile right-footed player who is quick off the mark

Maybe my political judgment is way off the mark.

I can tell the Ministers of Agriculture that they are way off the mark.

The sections in text documents mark off blocks of text for special purposes.

Unfortunately, the Commission does not appear to be on this track, and the Atkins report is even further off the mark.

Thus press reports of an EU-diplomatic challenge to the United States were way off the mark.

However it did slightly go off the mark, because the question related specifically to the opportunities for secondchance education.

With regard to Europe - or, more precisely, European political cooperation - as ever, it has been somewhat slow off the mark.

But because your brains are not trained in the art of deception, the solutions you come up with will, 99 percent of the time, be way off the mark.

Why is it that EU governments are so quick off the mark when it comes to pushing through economic reforms but so hesitant when it comes to political rights?

Still more recently, the Council of 12 and 13 December marked the official kick-off of a long process of reconciliation within Europe itself.

If we had been quicker off the mark in involving the United States too, in showing greater willingness to resolve the issue, we might have achieved a more successful result.

My group has reached the conclusion that it is important for the EU to be quick off the mark, efficient and generous, whenever that is useful and needed politically speaking.

If we had been a little quicker off the mark, the present directive would have been on the table - signed, sealed and delivered - long before the so-called Gothenburg Protocol.

I know the actual starting point is when the next question is announced, and I understand that people get a bit edgy, but please do not be too quick off the mark.

Perhaps those experts like Olivier Carré who claim that in Europe, Muslims and non-Muslims are moving towards the same practices are not too far off the mark.

Raymond Broger, a former member of the Council of States (from Appenzell) was not too far off the mark when he said, „There's almost nothing that the federal government thought up by itself.

Madam President, the elimination of internal frontiers resulting from the single European market as of 1992 marked the take-off of the Community transit problem.