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• n  the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something
• v  ring as in announcing death
• v  make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification

• Maybe FORTUNE's notorious 1995 death knell wasn't so far off the mark (September 2001) A Clash of Two Cities International business needs a gateway to China.
• HOFFMAN: The past decade has brought a spate of books sounding the death knell for a host of subjects.
• Left standing over the moonlit rubble was a solitary sentinel, a church tower, whose bell was jolted by the earth's angry vibrations into a final eerie death knell.

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News & Articles

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• Will NSA leaks wake us from our techno-utopian dream?
  Could the leaks about the extent of the National Security Agency's surveillance of US citizens be the death knell of techno-utopianism?
  June 10, 2013 - Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News
• Opinion analysis: Tentatively reopening the (back) door to class arbitration
  For the past three years, numerous courts and commentators have understood the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. AnimalFeeds International Corp. as all but sounding the death knell for class-wide – as opposed to individual – arbitration. After all, Stolt-Nielsen held that the Federal Arbitration Act bars class arbitration unless parties have specifically [...]
  June 10, 2013 - SCOTUSblog
• Pandora: iTunes Radio Is 'On Par' With Existing Streaming Services
  After Apple introduced iTunes Radio on Monday at the Worldwide Developers Conference, people described the new streaming music service as a "Pandora killer," with some Twitter users proclaiming, "RIP Pandora." But rival Pandora , which launched in 2000, weighed in, essentially telling Mashable that iTunes Radio is nothing new and critics shouldn't be ringing the death knell. "Apple’s new feature ...
  June 10, 2013 - Mashable

Quotes

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• Tom Tancredo in Guardian Unlimited
  I think this is sort of the death knell for John McCain's campaign,said Tancredo, a Colorado congressman and long-shot candidate.
• Chris Broad in AFP
  They have a lot of very talented cricketers, and I feel sorry for the cricketers and for the cricket-mad public of Pakistan,said Broad, the father of England fast bowler Stuart. "But this is a bit of a death knell for cricket in Pakistan...
• Rex Humbard in Forbes
  We knew that after Liverpool's defeat at the weekend (knocked out at home in the FA Cup by Championship side Barnsley) they were going to come out all guns blazing. However, Steven Gerrard's goal is not our death knell. Other teams have come back... Roberto Mancini http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Mancini&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE3n9RFLpZn-ayAJpmr-nKXpYar8w AFP http://www.google.com/url?q=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gcN9NqnWg2Qtfc0tjtdbchvfywUg&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHWBz2aW6Lrjg1QzkG9otJMPWY2qQ Feb 19, 2008 56088 149167 knelt Then, one night, listening to a visiting evangelist preach, I knew God was speaking to me," Humbard said in his autobiography. "I walked down the aisle and knelt at the altar and opened my heart to Jesus Christ. Light flooded my soul and I...