Sentence examples for of demise from inspiring English sources

The predictions of demise are piling up.

If there's a unifying theme to this show, it's not the inevitability of demise but, rather, the more mysterious imperative to create.

Stories spread from time to time of impending departmental closures, although rumours of demise have usually turned out to be greatly exaggerated.

Collectively, they have been "looking" at the condition of India the British left it in, in 1947, predicting its plunge into chaos or other kind of demise and then concluding that it remains an "unlikely democracy".

As for the first whispered predictions of vulnerability for the show, Mr. Bloomberg was happy to cite how often rumors of demise have been exaggerated since first evoked by Mark Twain.

Insiders at JJB say talk of demise is premature, and that although recent trading has been poor, it has not breached its banking covenants: in July, JJB's bank debt stood at £17.7m.

The odds of demise-by-satellite for any particular person among the world's seven billion people are much lower, on the order of 1-in-trillions, said Nicholas L. Johnson, NASA's expert on space debris at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

■ You will feel a twinge of guilt when you read of the demise of independent bookshops.

Rumors of the demise of fashion, like that of irony, may have been greatly exaggerated.

"I grieve it," the master of a private school said solemnly, of the demise of "buttercup".

This reminds me of the demise of the dinosaurs and rise of mammals.