Sentences with phrase «knell as»

Oyster's move to include a retail pay - per - title offering alongside its subscription earlier this year sounded the death knell as they struggled to increase their catalogue by any means possible.

Doing that can be a death knell as far as retaining your customer is concerned.

Not exact matches

The notion that this change in policy could be a death knell for certain employee and employer relationships exists, but it might not be as large an issue as some believe.

In total, those five grocery chains shed about $ 26.7 billion in market capitalization between the market's close Thursday and Friday morning, as investors worried that Amazon deeper push into the industry could be a death knell for some.

If the Fiduciary Standard is applied to brokers as well as financial advisors as has been discussed, there will for sure be lots of change, but to announce the death knell of the advice business is as ludicrous as saying there will no longer be a demand for teachers or doctors.

Peak earnings rattle equity investors: Profit peaks, perhaps as now, don't spell the death knell for stocks though they intensify the importance of economic growth and earnings.

I realize that when we resist this misconception, we may be perceived as opening the door for the death - knell to toll over the church.

Stay unorganized — as soon as you start organizing, that's the death knell of your church.

Unsuspectedly from the bottom of every fountain of pleasure, as the old poet said, something bitter rises up: a touch of nausea, a falling dead of the delight, a whiff of melancholy, things that sound a knell, for fugitive as they may be, they bring a feeling of coming from a deeper region and often have an appalling convincingness.

As Ratzinger has noted: The triumph of historical - critical exegesis seemed to sound the death knell for the Christian interpretation of the Old Testament initiated by the New Testament itself.

In seeing the Protestant Reformation as an assault on Christendom from within, the Catholics were partly right: the Protestant Reformation was destined to sound the death - knell to Christendom.

If He did indeed «bless her book,» then we will have to assume that the «Book of Mormon» is blessed as well... Never mind that in the end of the Book of Revelation we are strictly warned that anything added to or subtracted from its prophecies would be a death knell!

Many believe that the Enlightenment was the death - knell of religion, but what they don't realize is that many of the leading scientists of the Enlightenment Era were Bible - believing Christians who went to nature looking for the order and beauty and logic that they believed they would find there as a result of their belief that God was created nature.

The former Benfica man has been strongly linked with a Bernabeu exit for some weeks and the arrival of James Rodriguez from AS Monaco appears to have been the death knell to his time at the Spanish giants.

I wonder how Giroud and Walcott feels with our most recent implosion, seeing as a lack of goals has sounded the death knell for our title aspirations.....

Sunderland are awful and the goals of Jermaine Defoe look the only way that they can stay in this league meaning any injury to him could serve as a death knell to hopes of staying in the Premiership.

Clarke's departure would also sound the death knell of Cameron's attempt to rebrand the Tory party as the Nice Party — not that that would greatly bother me as a Labour junkie.

«While we understand the nervousness of the APC Federal Government over our rebranding and the renewed popularity of the PDP, which has signaled their inevitable death knell, resorting to outlandish allegations will not help them as Nigerians have since seen through such old - fashioned propaganda and gimmicks.

Ed Balls as leader of he Labour party could be it's death knell.

That didn't sit well with the GOP chairman, who in a pre-primary interview described outsourcing as «a death knell.»

«We had tolls on the East River bridges until 1911, when Mayor William Gaynor removed the tolls, and as a result, it almost sounded the death knell for the East River bridges,» he said.

The real significance of pregnant brain - dead women is that they would seem to sound the death knell for brain death as a definition.

As is the case for so many threatened species, the breakup of their habitat sounded the death knell for tamarins, depriving them of the continuity of forest they require to remain abundant and safe from potential threats in any single vicinity.

Suddenly, deep philosophical questions are making headlines as commentators sound the death knell for free will.

We know menopause as a death knell, the end of a woman's sexuality, a descent into a dried - up and painful old age of arthritis and osteoporosis.

It's a weird, wobbly stretch to paint animal foods as a death knell because they contain cholesterol.

It took nearly a decade, as well as the death - knell of the company that spawned it, but at last Mortal Kombat can competently stand toe - to - toe with the other fighting greats due to its gameplay, rather than its gore.

As two of his biographers have noted, the death of Annie «chimed the final death - knell for his Christianity.

There is, for one hideous example, a particular mistake of fast - forward evolution that absorbs the death knells of its screaming victims, as though its toothy maw were a pit straight to hell.

Though many mark the bookends of the New American Cinema as Bonnie & Clyde on the left and Raging Bull on the right, a case could be made for The Wild Bunch (being, as it is, the death knell for an entire genre and the goddamned American naïvete that genre represents) and its emotional doppelgänger at the end of the Seventies, Apocalypse Now.

But it can certainly lay claim to the same problem as that previous version: What shallow fun there is doesn't survive the final shootout; in this instance, it's just one more death knell for the crisply made action sequence.

by Bill Chambers Two Family House and Panic, a pair of overlooked films hopefully not destined to become overlooked DVDs, have more in common than a passing glance suggests, and their joint failure to earn even a pittance sounds the death knell for independent cinema as we knew it in the early -»90s.

As always, though, Rockstar doesn't name - check so much as simply tip the cap to its favorite celluloid ancestors, from Once Upon a Time in the West (and its depiction of encroaching modernity sounding the old guard's death knell) and The Wild Bunch (especially during the game's later Mexican Civil War sequences) to, in the name of a budding oil community, There Will Be BlooAs always, though, Rockstar doesn't name - check so much as simply tip the cap to its favorite celluloid ancestors, from Once Upon a Time in the West (and its depiction of encroaching modernity sounding the old guard's death knell) and The Wild Bunch (especially during the game's later Mexican Civil War sequences) to, in the name of a budding oil community, There Will Be Blooas simply tip the cap to its favorite celluloid ancestors, from Once Upon a Time in the West (and its depiction of encroaching modernity sounding the old guard's death knell) and The Wild Bunch (especially during the game's later Mexican Civil War sequences) to, in the name of a budding oil community, There Will Be Blood.

It's also the death knell of the Avengers as we've known them.

But the film is the death knell for one man's — Dmytryk's — idealism, and what's fascinating is the extent to which the passing of a single man's hope registers in nearly the same key as the passing of the Old West as a genre.

While Baltimore provides a cautionary tale for urban district leaders implementing the portfolio strategy, it should not be seen as the death knell for reform within a traditional school system.

Finally, we will continue to challenge over-enthusiasm about Lesson Study as a panacea as much as we will also challenge anyone who claims that this recent EEF study is the death knell for the process.

As we veteran teachers predicted, the death knell for public education is spreading slowly and inexorably throughout the country, and as the Post and Courier reported last week, Michelle Rhee and her for - profit destroyers have claimed two more districts with their fraudulent promise to improve the educational systeAs we veteran teachers predicted, the death knell for public education is spreading slowly and inexorably throughout the country, and as the Post and Courier reported last week, Michelle Rhee and her for - profit destroyers have claimed two more districts with their fraudulent promise to improve the educational systeas the Post and Courier reported last week, Michelle Rhee and her for - profit destroyers have claimed two more districts with their fraudulent promise to improve the educational system.

Under his leadership, the organization solidified its position in a rapidly changing media environment as Knell leveragedNPR's network of member stations, drove cross-platform journalism and cultural programming, and grew philanthropic and corporate underwriting support.

60 - mph arrives in 3.2 seconds with the hammer down in the Audi, which features a seven - speed dual - clutch automated manual transmission (sounding a death knell for the traditional manual edition of the car), and all - wheel drive is included as standard equipment.

However Audi will only sell the five - door hatch body style, or Sportback, in Australia as slow sales of the previous three - door model sounded its death knell.

It might be easy to look at the decline in sales information and once again begin to ring the death knell for traditional publishing, but taken as a whole, Hachette did very well for itself.

As the bells of St Mary's knelled the seventh hour — the last time they would ever ring — Trencoms cheese shop exploded into a fireball.

For me these both represent the death knell of traditional media, at least as it pertains to book marketing.

When that happens, it could be a pivotal moment in history, the final death knell to the traditional print newspaper, as digital devices become the new standard for consuming news.

We need people like Hugh Howey espousing Indie First, as a counter to the weight of history that said indie publishing was the death - knell of an author career.

I hope that it doesn't ring the death knell for Bioware, as EA has been notoriously trigger - happy with smaller studios in the past.

This is especially a death knell for the Vita version as the system's highly touted connectivity is absolutely wasted here.

Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel Expected: March This Japanese RPG is described by Sony as, «Long - awaited,» but we have to confess our ignorance of the series.

In my view it's likely the death knell for Xbox Live Arcade as somewhere to go for great games and is leaving the door open for Sony or Nintendo (or someone else, Apple perhaps) to take their crown.