Eksempler på 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.