1 There was one black mark against him.

2 She earned a black mark for opposing company policy.

3 The public scandal was a black mark against him.

4 The public scandal left a black mark on his career.

5 But there is one black mark.

6 Incidentally, Willoughby, you've earned yourself a black mark for that little trouble.

7 It would be a good mark, not a black mark.

8 Irina had put a black mark against him with Rakovsky.

9 A mini-breakdown was less of a black mark than a criminal record if he should ever choose to emigrate.

10 You get a black mark next to your name that may show up in your next evaluation.

11 Still, you could almost see the black mark being registered against the name of the man who had asked the question.

12 The scandal left him with a black mark.

13 He was given a black mark for tardiness.

14 The black mark side is the effect of the lamp burning the LCD screen.

15 His continual lateness was a black mark against his promotion.

16 But he has a big black mark against him : his faith.

17 We soon realized that the black mark was Baba Grugru oil spraying air above the derrick.

18 This time, they noticed a small black mark directly in the center of my father's eyeball.

19 The lawsuit alleges the black mark on Evans' permanent record is "unjustifiably straining her academic reputation and good standing."

20 If I'm late for work again, it will be another black mark against me.

21 An army officer was next to him, his eye encircled with a faint black mark.

22 Why is not immediately obvious but sufficiently worrying to put a black mark against the program.

23 All these things enter into such considerations, and the proverbial black mark may be recorded.

24 The former Shah's advocacy of a collective security pact was a further black mark against the Gulf scheme.

25 The outcome will be recorded but the finding does not constitute a black mark on the record of the officer involved.

26 The exam league tables have also been given a black mark by teaching unions.

27 He didn't finish his work, and was given a black mark.

28 He left the bank after 40 years'service without a single black mark against him.