Sentence examples for could spell death from inspiring English sources

In the war years, being on a list held by a bureaucracy could spell death.

* Return to drachma could spell death of industry.

But waiting too long to announce the scheduling for a new TV movie such as ABC's "Elvis and Me," which aired Feb. 7, could spell death.

A free-solo climb on the smooth granite face roughly a half-mile high means there's no margin for error; a misplaced foot could spell death, which Honnold is well aware of.

In the famine-prone 1300s a bad herring catch could help spell death on a terrifying scale in Germany, the Netherlands and the British Isles.

Those receptionists could spell the death of you.

Washington's waning commitment to European security could spell the death of the alliance, he said.

Victory for Mr Mosley would be landmark ruling that could, in effect, introduce a celebrity privacy law and could spell the death of so-called "kiss and tell" stories, according to some commentators.

A lawyer for victims of the violence, Wilfred Nderitu, warned of grave consequences of such widespread witness intimidation, saying it "could spell the death knell for this court and for international criminal justice".

And Michel Barnier, the French commissioner for the single market, is moving systematically to regulate the financial sector, often pushing Britain into rearguard actions to defend the interests of the City of London.The shift to inter-governmentalism, Mr Barroso declared this week, could spell "the death of the united Europe that we seek".

While no one should expect such a young institution to emulate the authority and credibility accumulated over centuries by our national parliaments, a further decline in voter turn out at future Euro elections could spell the death knell of the European parliament.