1 The loss of Georgia would sound the death knell of Republican hopes.

2 The revolution tolled the death knell for the Russian monarchy.

3 The arrival of large supermarkets sounded the death knell of many small local shops.

4 The tax increase sounded the death knell for the business.

5 Croson to be the death knell for minority contracting laws, many big city officials refused to give up.

6 Was it the death knell of the nuclear industry or merely curfew time?

7 The death knell for a revised Thanksgiving came when retailers began admitting their revenues had not improved after all.

8 This would, in effect, finally sound the death knell for the Convention.

9 Do we now hear yet another death knell for readability studies?

10 At first he thought it was a death knell.

11 That is the death knell of the British Empire.

12 We all mourned at the death knell of Tom.

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

14 His decision sounds the death knell for all our hopes.

15 It's going to be the death knell of the red deer.

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

17 His failure sounds the death knell for all his hopes.

18 To resume the ivory trade would sound the death knell for the African elephants.

19 And opponents have called the railway's opening the death knell of an independent Tibetan culture.

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

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

22 If he loses this referendum, it will sound the death knell for his leadership.

23 Leaving him out of the team may sound the death knell for our chances of winning .

24 Nor is Mr Gore's loss going to be the death knell for the environment that Preston claims.

25 Chernobyl was undoubtedly a setback for nuclear power, but it grows increasingly hard to see it as its death knell.

26 The word repeated itself over and over in her head like a death knell.

27 Energy analyst Walt Patterson believes this would sound the death knell for research.

28 Its recurrence was regular , but as slow as the tolling of a death knell.