death knell

"It was never going to be the death knell of the company."

The couple considered the decision a death knell for their project.

"Did you know that was the death knell for her?"

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

No one is sounding a death knell for service people yet, of course.

Critics fear it will be the death knell of public education.

You, of course, are sounding its death knell at the moment.

This kind of economic policy is the death knell for libraries.

Two words that sounded the death knell of a people.

These words fell on my soul like a kind of death knell.

"Things have softened but by no means is it the death knell of the industry."

The economic limitations of these plans may sound their death knell in the future.

To lose this would be a death knell for the bank's mission.

Each time, it felt like a death knell to this pregnancy.

Normally, this might mean a death knell for the arts group.

When at last he spoke his words rang like a death knell.

After this, the death knell seemed close to sounding for the movement.

But it is the death knell of any respect I previously had for news media.

Simply put, Sept. 11 did not sound the death knell of all dreams for a better world.

"It could be the death knell for the family," he asserted.

Such a course of action would be the death knell for British industry'."

This action was considered the death knell of the Confederate army.

The sound of the tearing was like a death knell to her ears.

It also sounded a death knell for the bull market.

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