Sentence examples for dying order from inspiring English sources

An ironic sign of obeisance to a dying order.

But it gradually registers that all the intricate verbosity is the last gasp of a dying order.

The public got the point anyway about this dying order and its tired racial and culture wars.

Roughly a century ago three daughters of a dying order of gentility looked to the distant metropolis of Moscow as a symbol of deliverance.

A sweeping examination of the intimate link between war and manhood as society has construed it since the Middle Ages; Braudy reads Al Qaeda as the mortal thrashings of a dying order.

This, Silver complains, represents nothing less than the death of valour.As it happens, the book is dedicated to the Earl of Essex, the man who seemed to his contemporaries to embody just that dying order.

On July 29 he issued a "stand or die order," declaring that "there will be no Dunkirk, there will be no Bataan".

The KPA I, III, and VI Corps, holding the eastern mountains, proved especially difficult to dislodge, for Kim Il-sung had issued a "stand or die" order to his much-enlarged and improved armed forces.

Hitler's "stand or die" orders gravely hampered the war in the east once the tide turned.

We are all "sick" with life, contagious with it: we are all terminal, dying, in order to make room for other people, other stories.

It is a logical icon for the continuity between a dying social order and a new one struggling to be born.