Sentences with phrase «death knell for»

The popularity of eat - in kitchens has all but triggered a death knell for the dedicated dining room.

Title insurance, which first developed in the late 19th century in the United States may be the death knell for land registrations.

Industry experts who have been sounding the death knell for cap rate compression received a temporary reprieve thanks to a further drop in the 10 - year Treasury...

RETAILERS ARE dispelling fears that new digital formats will be the death knell for traditional businesses such as photo centers and video stores.

The draft report by the U.S. Base Realignment and Closure Commission, which identifies military installations for expansion, realignment, or closure, may sound the death knell for facilities around the country.

This is a death knell for a marriage.

There will be a great temptation to finance your child's divorce, thinking that you are helping them get custody or more marital property but in most cases, hiring separate divorce lawyers is the death knell for any co-parenting relationship.

This one behavior, according to Gottman, signals a death knell for marriage — whether the couple actually divorces or not.

Returning to the days when marital tasks were divided and gendered would do the opposite of what proponents of «traditional» marriage believe; it would ring the death knell for modern American marriages.

While trying to ward off moves towards plain packaging in other countries, the tobacco industry's strategy may be sounding another death knell for itself in Australia, argues Professor... Read more

Your marriage to their mother may seem like the death knell for their hopes of their parents ever getting back together again.

Charging is provided via a Lightning cable rather than the more usual micro-USB, which will probably be the death knell for any Android users who were thinking about picking up a pair.

Most blockchains see this sort of attack as a death knell for their coin, as the consequences of a bad player owning more than 50 percent of a chain means that the trustworthiness of their crypto is now at zero.

That should sound the death knell for torch apps, some of which have reportedly been snooping on users» activity.

Then there was the Mt. Gox implosion — an event that your younger author truly believed was possibly the death knell for bitcoin.

Although changing leadership isn't necessarily a death knell for Tezos, Spagni said it's impossible to run such a lucrative business project like a truly cypherpunk community.

Dogetipbot's failure is also most likely the death knell for Dogecoin in general.

The best tablets are all about combination, with most offering a decent keyboard and desktop - style experience to sound the death knell for laptops.

The autonomous vehicle start up learned its main financier, LeEco, planned to significantly scale back its U.S. operations, signaling a potential death knell for Faraday's car ambitions.

Here are three reasons why your new car payment could be the death knell for your retirement dreams.

«But will the automation of legal services be the death knell for lawyers?

Refusal on «relative grounds», however, is often by no means the sounding of the death knell for a new application or the harbinger of wasted fees.

LAG believes unless the HPCDS proposals are dropped they could sound the death knell for what remains of civil legal aid providers in the NfP sector.

Jeremy Ford, 9 Gough Square, says: «This decision should sound the death knell for the tactical and unco - operative stances taken by some parties post-Mitchell.

It is the death knell for Leasehold and solicitors better be ready for the fall out because we are not going away and we will get redress for the financial losses we have incurred and stress caused by this scandal!!

In a short but forceful unanimous three panel decision, the Court of Appeal has rung the death knell for the term «crumbing skull» to describe physical and mental conditions that may deteriorate in the future (Gordon v. Ahn, 2017 BCCA 221).

Patent lawyers can barely control their excitement — or anxiety — in the wake of this week's news that the Supreme Court has agreed to review In re Bilski, the Federal Circuit's October en banc opinion that is seen as having sounded the death knell for business methods patents, including software patents.

Last Friday, just days after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in McDonald v. Chicago, the city, anticipating that the ruling was the death knell for Chicago's restrictive handgun ordinance, enacted a new ordinance that, while still strict, was less akin to an «outright ban» on gun possession.

And are these goals mutually exclusive — in other words, is publication of an ethics violation always a death knell for a lawyer?

Skeptics of alternative business structures (ABS) have interpreted recent negative news as the death knell for ABS in Canada.

Does ACTA represent the death knell for piracy or an attack on civil liberties?

HRA 1998, s 12 (3) may prove to be the death knell for the interim injunction as a guard dog of an individual's right to privacy pending trial, while the courts continue to uphold the freedom of an ever more powerful and invasive press it is only a matter of time before an individual's private thoughts and activities are presumed to be fair game for public consumption, whether that individual is the man on the Clapham omnibus or the Prince of Wales.

Though I'm not sure I agree that the Fisher decision is the death knell for the notion of probable cause, both of Colb's pieces are thought - provoking and worth a read.

While the declining cost of renewables is good news, it was close to a death knell for concentrated solar power, which is now comparatively more expensive.

But these amazing insects are being threatened as climate change and habitat loss are affecting butterfly populations worldwide, striking another death knell for the hobby of butterfly collecting.

Patrick Van Klaveren, head of the Monaco delegation that submitted the ban proposal, said the UN body had sounded the death knell for bluefin tuna.

The failure of cap and trade legislation in the US Congress and the collapse of international negotiations at Copenhagen marked the death knell for the old approach.

Sound the death knell for unreliable energy — wind / solar — as a fanciful baseload alternative to fossil fuels!

Unless AGW proponents can find errors in Beenstock et al. 2012, these results sound the death knell for major AGW.

While many in the media have sounded the death knell for coal as a power fuel source, and in the very long - term I think coal usage will gradually diminish, it will take years — perhaps even decades — for coal to be relegated to an insignificant role in power generation, but I am convinced it will occur.

«It'd pretty much be the death knell for coal mined on federal lands,» Preston said.

In the United States, coal's dominance in the power sector has been eroded by low gas prices; in China, coal demand has fallen due to lower use in the industrial and residential sectors linked to efforts to improve air quality; while in the United Kingdom a recently introduced carbon price floor has rung the death knell for coal use in power generation.

When the UK, Environment Secretary, Michael Gove called for the elimination of internal combustion engines, the media treated it as the death knell for oil.

When BrightSource withdrew its IPO this month, the death knell for solar was sounded, as always.

A new study is being touted as the death knell for the existence of global warming.

... the Heartland Institute's climate - change summit was forged around a cadre of professional climatologists, atmospheric physicists, and economists who see the effects of a global - warming «hoax» as the death knell for scientific inquiry and the capitalist system of free enterprise.

Listening to climate contrarians like President Donald Trump, you might think this constitutes the death knell for concern over human - caused climate change.

Human encroachment threatens these habitats, but global warming and drought may be the death knell for sky islands.

Thats because while the courts ruling doesn't end coal expansion, it does potentially push the reset button — a death knell for dozens of coal projects hanging by a financial thread.

They could sound the death knell for fisheries which provider food for over 60 million people.»