Sentences with phrase «looming demise»

That year - over-year growth was apparently an encouraging sign to Xbox chief Phil Spencer, who took to Twitter to proclaim that consoles haven't yet stepped into the shadow of their looming demise.

On its November 21, 2008 broadcast, NPR's Day To Day program ran a story on the looming demise of the billable hour.

It's time to hunt; gargantuan mechanized dinosaurs make their way across a beautiful open field, unaware of their looming demise.

James Daunt, the managing director of Waterstones, said the chain had transformed its fortunes since he took over in 2011, when the success of ebook readers such as Amazon's Kindle signalled the looming demise of high street bookselling.

-- he is also inching toward new conclusions about himself, underscored by the looming demise of his father.

The looming demise of Corus» steelmaking plant is dominating politics on Teesside - and helping raise hopes of an improbable Tory gain.

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Even in chloroquine's heyday, the drug's demise loomed.

Day - Lewis (ingeniously made up) is physically looming and stooped, like a raven presaging his own demise, but with lively eyes that register his humor, wit and passion.

Nostalgists lament the demise of single plays like Ken Loach's Cathy Come Home or Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party, but drama series like The Jewel in the Crown, Edge of Darkness, Our Friends in the North, State of Play, the original Upstairs Downstairs or Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy will surely loom larger in history's rear - view mirror, while perhaps Julian Fellowes» surprise hit, Downton Abbey, heralds a new wave of the classic British costume drama.

California Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León claims the case will «cripple unions» and political commentator Arthur Schaper wrote of the teachers unions» looming «political demise.»

Swiss authorities and industry are behind Zug's push into crypto finance, believing it will allow the financial sector to diversify as the demise of banking secrecy looms.