The death knell had rung upon the American Equal Rights Association. The Nazi misuse of eugenics sounded its death knell. Mahatma Gandhi's advent sounded a death knell for the British in Kumaon. The advent of the automobile sounded the death knell for rail in Seattle. This was the event that sounded the death knell for the monarch. However, Octavian's victory at Actium also sounded the death knell of the Republic. The manner of ringing the knell varied in different parishes. The Great Depression sounded the death knell for the liner. The treaty would become the "death knell of the Maratha Empire". This statement has been cited ubiquitously as sounding the death knell for trait-leadership theory. General harmony, somber, sad, frightening, telling in the eye like a funeral knell. A reversal of Soviet collapse would have been the death knell for the new order. One of the regime's efforts to stem the tide ended up being its death knell. That move spelled the death knell for the American Cup. That spelled the death knell for the American Cup.