Sentence examples for to demise from inspiring English sources
noun
The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.
That can be true, but it can also lead to demise.
Any insurer that writes less than €1 billion ($1.3 billion) in business is vulnerable to demise or a takeover, says John O'Brien of Mercer, a consultancy.
Scientists have not worked out every detail of the cascade of events that leads from nerve cells' initial injury to demise.
"Mobile platforms that fail to crack the 50 percent barrier of developers who are 'very interested' in developing apps for them," the IDC report states, "will be on a gradual track to demise".
Al Qaeda in Iraq is hardly defeated, but recent academic research on decapitation as a strategy suggests that in this case, it may in fact have put the group closer to demise — not so much because the airstrikes were accurate as because Iraqis have lost respect for the group.
Still, a spacecraft designed to demise through the atmosphere has to survive the debris-populated space environment for many years.
The combined effect is thought to lead to the demise of rapidly dividing cell populations either through apoptosis or autophagy.
To many, this amounted to the demise of the Circle's anti-metaphysical campaign.
This vicious circle is likely to have contributed considerably to the demise of the patient.
It was this very conflict that led to our differences and, partially, to our demise.
Inhibition of eEF2K is thought to increase protein translation to unsustainable rate under nutrient deprivation, leading to cell demise.
