They are found in South America, Africa, Australia and southern Asia, having first evolved in Gondwana before that continent broke up.

Dictatorships are regarded as indestructible before they fall, Trotsky reminds us, but their demise is viewed as inevitable once they are toppled.

If that happens, the euro s demise cannot be far behind.

The first and most visible consequence was the demise of the long lunch.

But today, Khrushchev is remembered mostly for his contribution to the demise of Stalinism and, via Mikhail Gorbachev, whose hero he was, ultimately for helping to bring about communism s demise.

The general feeling was that the common currency was doomed.

The demise of Libya s nuclear venture offers a template for dealing with Iran.

The reality is that we cannot simply wish such crimes away.

Those forecasting the demise of the euro were wrong because they misunderstood the politics.

Indeed, the NTC willingly facilitated the military s demise.

After the demise of the Portuguese monarchy, in 1910, Portugal almost restored its monarchy in a revolution known as the Monarchy of the North, though the attempted restoration only lasted a month before destruction.

Neither of the national parties, however, benefited from the BSP s demise.

It has seen off all of its challengers, and there are no new ones in sight.

This creed has clearly not survived its creator.

So the demise of the Kyoto Protocol will be no great loss.

But a mere change of government will not make these countries economic problems go away.

BERKELEY The blogosphere is abuzz with reports of the dollar s looming demise.

But shutting down discussion simply means the disappearance of reason from public policy.

To be sure, Estimé had hastened his own demise in several ways.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.

And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

Following the demise of the League, most of the remaining mandates became United Nations Trust Territories.

(d) After eradicating security tension, and the establishment of law and order, a quest for possessing arms would not exist.

Their theory, known as the Alvarez hypothesis, is now widely accepted to explain the demise of the dinosaurs.

Certain States face the likelihood of the disappearance of the whole or a significant part of their surface area for environmental reasons.

The legal implications of disappearance of States and other territories for environmental reasons, including the implications for the human rights of their residents, with particular reference to the rights of indigenous peoples 341

As long as that remains true, European integration may be doomed by the time the music stops.

We all know that the stimulus that triggers an emotion causes that emotion to last long after the stimulus is gone.

But the more their politicians argue over the debt ceiling, the greater the risk that the wiring will become irreparably frayed.

With the USSR s demise, communist ideology, which Muslims believe contradicts their faith, ended too.

Its demise could not be averted by the country s abundance of oil and natural gas.

From insistence that the end of the Kim dynasty was approaching, consensus is emerging on the continued existence of their regime.

Destabilization and chaos followed, accompanied by a sense of uncertainty and unpredictability.

Eight years later, pinned down by a US Predator drone and French airstrikes, Qaddafi met his demise.

Today, the Kremlin is contributing to its own violent demise, intentionally demoralizing Russian society.

Since the demise of Acorn Computers, Wilson has made a small number of public appearances to talk about her time there.

Get tough with China, both stressed in the presidential debates, and the pain will ease.

In this sense, 2007 2009 is the capitalist equivalent of the communist demise of 1989 1991.

And a prominent economist in the audience who has often predicted the eurozone s demise was backtracking rapidly.

PARIS The demise of the Roman Empire resulted from a combination of strategic overreach and excessive delegation of security responsibilities to newcomers.

Fascism's demise was followed by the more gradual disintegration of communism after Stalin's death and Khrushchev's revelations of Stalin's crimes.

The disappearance of States for environmental reasons will give rise to a variety of legal questions, not all of which relate specifically to human rights.

Nearly two decades after the demise of the Soviet empire, what stands out is a prevailing sense of lost opportunities.

Industralization further contributed to the demise of the family economy where the capitalist market encouraged production in large scale factories, farms and mines.

The United Nations Pledging Conference had outlived its usefulness and should be replaced or substantially reformed.