Voorbeelden van knell

• If plans to produce cellulosic ethanol are carried very far, it could be the death knell for biodiversity and, with it, humanity's life-support systems.

• The collaboration of director and designer fell apart, but the death knell for the door was clearly at hand.

• Online delivery is not the death knell for record companies.

• But the synchro-cyclotron is not a symptom of the thriving state of nuclear physics, more like its death knell.

• Assimilation may not be the death knell of a minority language, but language choice generally means "going with the flow," and the flow is toward the majority language.

• We are talking about the death knell for the ferries.

• By the same token, it would be the death knell for renewables.

• It was the death knell for the minimum pension scheme.

• If it fails and there happens to be a test ban meanwhile, that will be the death knell of our nuclear effectiveness.

• When she was elected, she said that it was the death knell of the poll tax, and she was right.

• Privatisation of the electricity industry sounded the death knell of the coal industry and, with it, coal-fired electricity generation.

• Does he realise that extending the privatisation principle to the welfare state will sound its death knell?

• Once a fire starts, if it is not brought under control it can be the death knell of a colliery.

• Rising costs have reduced the gates and this tax will sound the death knell for many of these clubs.

• If it does, it almost spells the death knell of a great number of football clubs throught the country.