death knell

This day is also likely to stand, the newspaper might have added, as the day which sounded the death knell of imperialism in Asia.

His sudden illness was the death knell of his hope to go traveling with his schoolmates .

The move if it spreads could sound the death-knell for small-scale newspaper delivery operations across the UK.

That's not a death knell, just a chance for re-purposing.

The making of movies was to be the death knell of live theater; recorded music, the end of concerts.

Historians may come to see the decline of the newspaper as the death-knell for the nation-state as we knew it.

It's sort of the death knell for all cancer therapies.

By telling the story of a grand feudal family from prosperity to destitution, the novel sounded the death knell of the feudal society.

Last week's less-than-satisfactory fundraising efforts may have already rung the death knell for the deal.

The financial crisis was supposed to ring the death knell for companies that make loans to people who have had problems with debt .

But, I failed, all my efforts, all the efforts to all the death knell.

A study carried out by the US edition of Men's Health magazine claims it marks the death knell for '1950s man'.

Many observers had held that the Panic of 2008 was the death knell for the independent investment bank.

Not staying on par with colleagues and those vying for your job will be a death knell.

Economists have long argued that when a country's currency goes up too much, it can be a death knell for economic growth.

The death knell comes in the form of squabbling among a horde of family shareholders.

This scientific discovery is probably going to sound the death knell for male deodorant manufacturers.

When tyrants tremble in their fear and hear their death knell ringing , when friends rejoice both far and near how can I keep from singing ?

Slowly, the clock ticked toward the hour when trading would begin in Tokyo, sounding the firm's death knell.

Let us sound the death knell for the war effort now!

Some analysts have even sounded the death knell for Russia's energy influence in Central Asia, Moscow's traditional back yard.

Calling for the creation of a science and technology ministry, he described the current situation as "a death knell for science in Uganda" .

The price of cereals and the price of calves at the present moment has virtually sounded the death knell of barley beef production.

The Coller Capital boss dismisses the idea that the credit crunch has sounded the death knell for private equity.

"This court settlement signals the death knell for mercury fillings, " Brown predicted.

The loss of ice would also be a death knell for polar bears, which rely on ice to hunt and raise their young.

THIS week the death-knell sounded for America's love affair with pick-up trucks and sport-utility vehicles (SUVs).

But the studies are not necessarily a death knell for lightweight dark matter particles, says Hooper.

The arrival of large supermarkets has sounded the death knell of the local shop.

The election about the economy also sounded the death knell for the Republican culture wars.

Bad news is the death knell for growth stocks, and growth investors should avoid all such stocks.

Those who sound the death knell of market capitalism are therefore mistaken.

The opening of the ports sounded this death knell of the ancient regime.

Then there were the give-away texts that spelled the death knell for many marriages.

That kind of post is a death knell for a blog.

Industry executives are quick to deny that a death knell has sounded over the industry.

For some, GM's fall is the final death knell for America's labour aristocracy.

Change is our life-blood, stagnation our death knell.

But a lot of Palestinians wonder if this is the death-knell of their dream of statehood.

That is the death knell of the British Empire.

One person's heartburn is another's death-knell.

It's a breakfast of excess, a kind of death knell to the survival on starch diet of the past.

an action or event that makes something fail or end [= death knell]:

National euros ring the death knell to single currency

sound the death knell of colonialism

Let's Sound the Death Knell of Bureaucracy

we all mourned at the death knell of tom