But the immediate response in Libya was bound to be one of joy – not least at a bloody conflict that has reached its end – and in Western capitals, particularly Paris and London, relief and satisfaction at a job well done.
Many companies don't update Windows Server or even Windows on the desktop, after all, because they rely on an old piece of peripheral hardware that has reached its end of life, with no compatible driver for a modern OS in sight.
Consider also the speech in June by Canada's foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, in which she thanked the United States for its seven-decade-long stewardship of the international system and strongly implied that, under the Trump administration, American leadership of that system had reached its end.
But that regime has reached its end," he said on his Web site, Islamtoday.net.net
It must have occurred to him, before that "low, dishonest decade" reached its end, that he had been fighting a battle that was already lost.
In the nineties, there was every reason to think that ITER had reached its end, too, with America's role in it so significant, and the mood in Washington so austere.
Mr. Whedon said he was especially angered after he heard that some fans interpreted the final message of thanks on Tuesday night as meaning that the series had reached its end.
"Despite the regular reminders that our gender has reached its end, AskMen's Top 49 list offers up plenty of examples of men who have sustained success -- and others who found it anew through reinventing themselves, just as many of our readers have had to in recent years," AskMen Editor-in-chief, James Bassil said in a press release.
He could not accept, however, that his own pub had reached its end.
Nowadays, Yang asserts, "rulers and ordinary citizens alike know in their hearts that the totalitarian system has reached its end".
Nowadays, Yang asserts, "rulers and ordinary citizens alike know in their hearts that the totalitarian system has reached its end". He hopes "Tombstone" will help banish the "historical amnesia imposed by those in power" and spur his countrymen to "renounce man-made calamity, darkness and evil". While guardedly hopeful about the rise of democracy, Yang is ultimately a realist.
