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That's the long term deathknell of used bookstores.
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The SA Agricultural Union has come out in strong opposition to the govrnment's proposed land tax on farms, which some farmers described as the deathknell for commercial agriculture.
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While Intelligent Design is often said to have overthrown evolutionism and represents the deathknell of atheistic naturalism or some such, the scientific community considers String Theory to be just theoretical speculation at this point.
Attached to Strings 2009
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Zachriel: While Intelligent Design is often said to have overthrown evolutionism and represents the deathknell of atheistic naturalism or some such, the scientific community considers String Theory to be just theoretical speculation at this point.
Attached to Strings 2009
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The “kiss” was good for Obama, but “deathknell” for Crist.
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Consider that nearly a year ago Marshall Kirkpatrick sounded the deathknell of what seemed like the forgone conclusion about OpenID:
Independent study on OpenID awareness using Mechanical Turk | FactoryCity 2008
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Let's hope this spells the final deathknell for traditional IPTV.
Jack Hidary: Internet-Powered TV -- Yahoo vs. the World 2010
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And here I was again, on the lion's lip, forcing my dinner down with Joe's noisy chewing sounding like a deathknell at my ear.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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Kick-Ass was supposed to be the deathknell for comic-book movies by dumbing them down to the point where pedophiles and retards could get into it.
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This movie will be the deathknell for the “Ridicule the geeks” sub-genre.
New TV Spot: SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD | Obsessed With Film 2010
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