Sentences with phrase «sounds death knell»

CITES fails to protect 5 species of sharks from overfishing and finning Rejected trade ban «sounds death knell» for bluefin tuna

She doesn't believe her stunning success sounds the death knell of the publishing industry, either.

The new design direction finally sounds the death knell for the various iterations of Acura's widely panned shield grille nose, substituting Acura's new «diamond pentagon» face instead.

The flat floor offers more space for middle seat passengers, but whether that sounds the death knell for a new - generation four - wheel - drive RS remains to be seen.

But the release on mobile first of the newest in the long - running Nintendo puzzle series surely sounds the death knell for the 3DS console, for so long its natural home.

There is no spark, no sign of attraction, and when the foundation of the film rests on its lead characters being believably in love, the failure of the two actors to generate that illusion sounds a death knell.

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.

Scripted, poetically enough, by the co-writers of Dumb and Dumber To, Horrible Bosses 2 — the kind of sequel that wouldn't get greenlit if executives put a damp finger to the wind once in a while instead of assuming any success presupposes an appetite for seconds — at the very least meekly sounds the death knell for the last one.

This by no means sounds the death knell for self - replicating machines, says Bowyer.

Many commentators have suggested the agreement sounds the death knell for net neutrality, or the broad ideal that Internet providers should not unduly discriminate against certain forms of traffic.

Another problem with claiming the CMHC's $ 600 - billion cap sounds the death knell is that no political party in Canada wants to see house prices plummet like they did in the U.S.. By reigning in the CMHC, the Conservatives are attempting to moderate the boom, not tip into it into a meltdown.

Although a corporate bankruptcy filing often indicates that a business is in a perilous financial condition, it doesn't necessarily sound the death knell for that business.

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.

On the one hand, that Darwin's theories on the origin of species sounded the death knell for belief in a Creator God.

For evangelicals who oppose Trump, the lack of stronger reaction to his latest scandal is sounding a death knell for the Religious Right.

It was the Enlightenment rejection of the supernatural which sounded their death knell.

If anything, the poll results sounded the death knell for the old guard.

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.....

His coming could sound the death knell on Echiejile's romance with Monaco, with another loan deal looking like the most credible option now, before his possible sale in the summer.

Stay - at - home moms: Do nt fall for the media chatter that opting out of work to raise kids will sound the death knell for your career.

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.

A bill being drafted in the NYC Council could sound a death knell for online home - sharing services in the Big Apple, by requiring Airbnb and its competitors to provide the Mayor's Office of Special Enforcement with the addresses of all their listings.

Nick Clegg sounded the death knell of the controversial snoopers» charter today, during a radio phone - in show which left listeners reeling.

You can be sure that a corruption trial of the national chairman of an opposition party will come with a lot of bad publicity that will sound the death knell the party.»

«While these low turnouts will be debated and analysed, one thing is clear: they should sound the death knell for the ludicrously shrill cries from some quarters of the Tory party and their supporters for greater restrictions on trade union ballots,» he wrote in the Huffington Post.

«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.

Failing that, he claims, the annual party conference at the end of September could sound the death knell of the Corbyn era.

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

Wazeck describes how relativity sounded the death knell for a culture dominated by classical mechanics, which had been broadly tolerant of amateurs and independent scholars.

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.

The shift in diet could sound a death knell for popular nesting grounds of barnacle geese, eider ducks, and glaucous gulls, researchers warn this month in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

When Alex Garland's high concept sci - fi movie flopped at the US box office, some hacks sounded the death knell for the kind of adult mid-budget movie it represents.

However, the interests of a loud minority aren't expected to sound the death knell for Safe Schools.

At first blush, this diagnosis would appear to sound a death knell for formal education.

We worried that Donald Trump's support for charter schools and school choice would make those issues toxic on the left; growing polarization would sound the death knell for any hope of centrism and bipartisanship, both of which have been essential for the ed - reform project for the better part of two decades; and populist attacks on data and reason would make it that much harder for our arguments to win the day.

But the Indiana ruling is especially interesting since it may sound the death knell for legal challenges to vouchers based on states» Blaine Amendments.»

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's a much better auto «box than the Gallardo ever had and it seems to sound the death knell for a manual «box in the Huracan.

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.

Then the investment industry sounded the death knell for the traditional balanced portfolio.

The upheaval in the markets and in the broader economy has led them to question long - honored principles of investing and to sound a death knell, at least for now, for the buy - and - hold mind - set.

Sounding the death knell of painting became a critical refrain in the second half of the twentieth century.

He really sounded the death knell for the previous movement as it existed.

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

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.

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

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

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.