1.   They could spell the end of national wage agreements and the sinking of clinical grading before it has properly begun to swim.

2.   This spelled the end of the Brezhnev doctrine, under which Soviet military power enforced the loyalty of its peripheral satellite states.

3.   Drug experts say it could spell the end of the crack epidemic.

4.   But his death and the mystery surrounding it spelt the end for the Church in which he had worshipped for so long.

5.   But though this sense of chivalry endured throughout the war, Verdun was to spell the end of the solitary ace and single combat.

6.   And it could spell the end for the traditional corner drug store.

7.   And while the advent of Bob Dylan, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones ultimately spelled its end, the songs of the Brill Building remain alive.

8.   As a practical matter, such a pronouncement would likely spell the end of the McLaughlin lawsuit.

9.   As he tells the camera, flat revenues, bloated infrastructure, and nimbler, more adept competitors spelled the end for govWorks.com.

10.   At one point, Vanest thought his apartment job would spell the end of his eligibility for food stamps, so he asked to be removed from the program.