How To Use Consign In A Sentence

At the various delivery points, the consignee often treated them to food and drink in return for other messages carried for him on the side.
A consignment of hatted and parasoled ladies was coming fast adown the avenue. Seven Men
We are required to have a police escort for the three mile trip from our terminal to the consignee.
It's the sort of consignment Jan takes with her whenever she visits Romania, along with contraceptive coils and coffee.
The government's claim that the process would take 10 years should be consigned to history. Times, Sunday Times

The consignment is a reactor imported by BPCL-Kochi Refinery for its vacuum gas oil hydro de-sulphurisation unit. WN.com - Articles related to Minister unveils plans for maritime tourism project
But to want to see the back of chick-lit because you've read too many blurbs that feature a single girl with too many shoes and a Martini habit is a bit like consigning pop music to the knackers' yard just because you don't like The X Factor. Should we mourn the end of chick-lit?
While some of the group are consigned to cramped, noisy, airless basement cells, we languish in our very own mini-suite, with polished panelling and heavy traditional furniture, all in rich dark woods.
The shipment has my wife's name as the consignee which we were told she can assign to the broker once we have one using a letter. Customs Broker in Vera Cruz
This is an extremely positive action on the part of the sales company and our consignors in an effort to accommodate buyers.
He said he plans to race his new filly, who was consigned by Bridlewood Farm.
Is he some crackpot pseudo-scientist consigned to the scrap heap of history?
NORWINE: The consigner signed the agreement, and that is why we ` re auctioning ... CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2007
The tragedy changed football stadiums, but it has become a horrible history consigned to the past. Times, Sunday Times
Sea Waybill Rule 3 imputes the status of agent for the consignee to the shipper-consignor.
In a region where history is never consigned to the dustbin, ancient hostilities are dusted down almost daily.
She will stay there through the breeding season and return to the U.S. where they will consign her to the 2004 breeding stock sale.
Not all the coins consigned to this ANA auction have been catalogued, and more Wreath Cents may be added to the listing. Coin Rarities & Related Topics: 1793 Half Cents, Chain Cents, Wreath Cents, 1808 Quarter Eagles — one-year type coins in general : Coin Collecting News
Although the current consignor is anonymous, this coin was previously in the collections of Dr. Steven Duckor and Jay Brahin. Fresh Material, Pedigrees and September Coin Auctions — Part 2 : Coin Collecting News
First, the consignee (if in possession of the document) cannot, by purporting to transfer it in this way, impose on the carrier a legal obligation to deliver the goods to another person.
Thankfully, both these perceptions have now been consigned to history. Times, Sunday Times
The consignors then shopped the piece around, and Washington dealer Guy Bush got a very good buy indeed as a consequence.
The consignment consisted of costly goods, including epergnes, table and dessert services and ornamental figures.
Is it consigned to the dustheap of great possibilities because there is no audience for such a work, or should an audience be forced to sit through the play and somehow find a way to relate to people and stories that are not about them?
Such dualism, which in effect consigns the Other to perdition, is in modernity often a characteristic of fundamentalisms.
Goods freight rate is a when influence consignor chooses to carry kind main factor.
The Driver hauled the shipments in a pup trailer to St. Ignace, Mich., where he consigned the shipment to the ferry operator, which was required to follow all the company procedures.
Police are now on the trail of the elusive Mr X, who they believe has just collected a large consignment of the drug.
a separation from God, and a consignation over to eternal miseries? Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
We had a large consignment of Liberty Engines from the U.S.A. (like the one at right - Ed) that had never been uncrated. The First World War Memoirs of Sampson J. Goodfellow, Part 36: Officer in Charge
They simply ran out of steam in the second half to slump to their fifth defeat out of five, a record that consigns them to the wooden spoon, their first wooden spoon in the competition since 2002.
The traditional smoky Irish pub was officially consigned to the past today as a blanket ban on smoking in the workplace came into force.
As she retires the feature -- consigning all those shoes and bikinis and chocolate boxes to the comics closet forever -- Guisewite classily gifted employees at Andrews McMeel/Universal UClick with her original art, fellow creator Bill Amend said. 'CATHY'S' FAREWELL: Video pays tribute as Guisewite ends her strip's 34-year run Sunday
The family doctor has now been consigned to history and no amount of political input will revive him. Times, Sunday Times
Unless we can think of something sharpish, Bridlington has been consigned to a slow death.
Knob Hill will not conduct a complete dispersal sale, but some horses may be consigned to future public auctions.
An elegant and space-saving mini hi-fi system no longer consigns you to wafer-thin sounds.
There are occasions where it is acceptable to consign the shipment directly to the importer, but it would be wise for the shipper to have a long-standing relationship with his/her customer, along with a good payment history, before agreeing to these terms.
There is no doubt innovative solutions are required to prevent such projects being consigned to the scrapheap because of funding issues.
Cooley, the consignee of two vessels leaving that port, refused to pay the fee.
This bill should be consigned to the rubbish bin because it is wrong and that is where it belongs.
The youth of this country will ensure that he and his party are consigned to history. Times, Sunday Times
Manan was best again in the intermediate sprint at Padang Mat Sirat, pipping Van Heerden again and consigning Salleh to third place. Neo Pro Andrea Guardini wins opening stage at Tour de Langkawi
Or perhaps those who would benefit most from Imran Khan's wise suggestions are the timid little satrap/'allies' of NATO who would sooner waste their wealth, consign their sons to foreign graves and provoke generations of revenge attacks than tell a ranting yankee general at the NATO meetings to depart and leave the rest of us and themalone. Pakistan will implode if the US does not leave Afghanistan
A win of any sort was welcome after the semi-final defeat but the pair looked shell-shocked at being consigned to the role of extras. Times, Sunday Times
Consigning me to hell seemed to make up the bulk of it, as I recall.
The most recent consignment of cloth was faulty.
This Trust Instrument is made by ( name, address ) ( hereinafter referred to as " the consignee " ) in ( date ).
Many listed companies have consigned large amounts of funds in security companies as investment in the stock market.
It shall undertake to store the consignment goods in dry and secure premises so that the goods are protected from the elements of the weather and to keep them in good condition.
Hopefully, he will now finally be consigned to the international dumper.
The family doctor has now been consigned to history and no amount of political input will revive him. Times, Sunday Times
We're now invited to consign our art works to his oblivion. Times, Sunday Times
And now conspiring with the Olympic people to consign Leyton Orient to the dustbin. West Ham's vow to keep athletics track had Tottenham on the run
Some 8m tonnes of waste wood are consigned to landfill. Times, Sunday Times
Fault on the part of the shipper, consignee or passenger concerned.
We will effect insurance against All Risks , as requested, charging premium and freight for the consignees.
Developing inventory turn goals, by individual product or by product group, can uncover slow-moving items that are inappropriate for consignment.
He was another minor poet[sentence dictionary], perhaps unfairly consigned to oblivion.
The Freemen of this Province understand, from good authority, that there is a quantity of tea consigned to your house by the East India Company, which is destructive to the happiness of every well-wisher to his country. Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
It would be a crying shame if they were consigned to the history books. Times, Sunday Times
Maybe they'll pick out four or five, then reconsign the rest.
Not doing so could consign the economy to permanently weak growth. Times, Sunday Times
NORWINE: We know that the consigner has signed off that he has clear title of the diaries. CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2007
But that is where he may well now be consigned. Times, Sunday Times
_ Bowing, as we passed, he consigned us, with a graceful wave of the hand, to the care of Pierre, the _frotteur_. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831
He has been consigned to the Dumpster of history while people like me ride our limos down the superhighway of tomorrow. AMERICAN GODS
She consigned his letter to the waste basket.
Yet it offers a vivid, warming glimpse of a comedy partnership made in and now consigned to Heaven. Times, Sunday Times
The Remi succeeded to their place, and, as it was perceived that they equaled the Aedui in favor with Caesar, those, who on account of their old animosities could by no means coalesce with the Aedui, consigned themselves in clientship to the Remi. Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars: with the Supplementary Books attributed to Hirtius.
Why say that the goods belonged to "subjects of the King of Italy," when the consignee was the real owner? The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter
She lived, meanwhile, wholly shut up from all company, consigned to penitence for her indiscretions, to grief for the fate of her sister, and to wasting regret of her own causelessly lost felicity. Camilla
That previous, however, to the teas being shipped, factors should be appointed in Philadelphia, and the directors of the East India Company should _immediately_ advise them of their intended consignation, and direct them to engage Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
For decades, many of Malevich's works were consigned to the basements of Soviet museums.
No criminal could be as cruel as the God who would consign human beings to a hell.
the weight of the documentation of all the consignments on board a contemporary container ship can exceed 90 pounds
NSW Fisheries officers received a tip-off in February about a consignment of snapper, silver trevally and rubberlip morwong, Minister for Primary Industries Steve Whan said. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
In the old people's home I was consigned for what seemed like an eternity to the day room - to a view of tatty armchairs, leering smiles, clawing fingers, and spittly remarks I could not understand.
Because theatre is a live art, the best way to consign a play to the dustbin of history is to leave it unperformed after its initial run.
Acting Defense Minister Valeriy Ivashchenko says a first consignment of the liquid component, known as melange, was taken last month to Russia for recycling into chemicals for civilian use. Www.kyivpost.com
Other groups fear any long-term clampdown will consign countless children to lives in institutions or on the street, rather than in the loving homes of adoptive parents. The News Tribune Blogs
The consignment consists of six varieties of Indian roses - red, pink, white, yellow, orange and shaded.
Limitation on liability is placed at ￡800 per tonne which should be monitored and adjusted in the case of higher value consignments.
Rugby creeps back out tonight from under the stone to which so many have consigned it. Times, Sunday Times
(I consign to parentheses the equally problematic issue of race, although few readers familiar with Austen will want to ignore the near-hysterical irruption of "the slave-trade" into one of Jane Fairfax's earlier conversations [271], as if in compulsive, belated echo of the formidable subtext haunting Mansfield Park.) Saying What One Thinks: Emma--_Emma_--at Box Hill
But the advent of the computer game generation and the recession has consigned Roy of the Rovers to football's wastepaper basket.
Leaving work and consigning yourself to the dole queue is obviously risky.
Consigning me to hell seemed to make up the bulk of it, as I recall.
Vendors are seen hawking large consignments of assorted music tapes and compact discs.
Not only were they consigning their offspring to a lifetime of obesity, it was claimed, but they were also causing congestion in residential areas.
‘It must raise serious questions as to whether the ministry, currently at least, can be regarded credibly as a waste consignor,’ they concluded.
Historically the X Factor silver medallist is consigned to a simple future – one badly-selling album of Michael Ball cover versions that only gets television coverage on GMTV and then a couple of years of doing corporate shows for 50p and a handful of cakes – but Rhydian Roberts might just escape that, because Simon Cowell has signed Rhydian up and wants him to rush an album out before he ends up inevitably playing the Phantom Of The Opera. X Factor Betting Odds: Rhydian To Win The Final?
The dotation of Persian queens consisted in consigning to them the revenue of certain cities, in various parts of the kingdom, for defraying their personal and domestic expenditure. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
In a region where history is never consigned to the dustbin, ancient hostilities are dusted down almost daily.
The sow was in a consignment from 34 premises in the East Riding and Humberside - two of the most densely populated pig areas in the UK - North Yorkshire and South Yorkshire.
Customers then receive email replies that provide a full status report on each consignment, from collection and delivery times to the name of the person who signed for the shipment.
The goods have been consigned by rail.
It was held that this did not entitle the buyers to reject the whole consignment.
It should be consigned to the history books. The Sun
The listing of their names in London auction catalogues suggests that they had signed their paintings or that they had personally consigned them to be sold at auction.
I know this will probably consign me to eternal perdition, but I saw a T-shirt the other day and, unbidden, the name "Ilion" flashed in my head the instant I saw it: Armstrong Expands on the Theme
You and your sales representatives must be passionate about a piece of consignment sculpture, or the incentive to promote it will lag behind the other pieces you've poured money into.
Given the ethical dilemmas, the future scenarios of many of the movies discussed here have been consigned to the realm of might-have-been sci-fi. Could Never Let Me Go give human clones a good name?
Chinese Origin Goods Chinese Origin Goods made in China, such as plastic toys and clothing, may be subject to high anti-dumping quotas which range in 500+%, which may result in abandonment by the consignee due to the high cost of entry. Page 2
I believe the First Mate, Mr Brown, treated me kindly; he consigned my dead infant to its watery fate.
When one is consigned to the nosebleed press section of a college arena, one longs for spies on the bench.
Yet it offers a vivid, warming glimpse of a comedy partnership made in and now consigned to Heaven. Times, Sunday Times
Yet was there a stranger guest among us who did all this and more with unblenching brow, unruffled self-possession, unequalled courtesy, who, if discovered, would have been arrested and consigned to a lock-up, only to be exchanged for the gloom and the manacles of the condemned cell. Robbery Under Arms
Those who refuse to change with the times will soon be consigned to history. Times, Sunday Times
It was held that this did not entitle the buyers to reject the whole consignment.
They acquire their goods on consignment from wholesale merchants in the larger towns, then carry them on the train into the countryside.
Inventory; inventories Raw materials and supplies, goods finished and being manufactured and stock on hand, in transit, in storage or consigned to others at the end of the accounting period.
Except for a few dressy occasions, my neckties are now consigned to the closet until that dreaded day in the fall when I have to tighten the noose once again.
I consigned her letter to the waste basket.
We can't come to terms with why the US is in the pickle it is in without consigning McCain to the dustheap. Jane Smiley: The Bogeyman
Linguistic idiosyncrasies which had previously distinguished Stanningley-speak from a Bingley burr would be consigned to history.
But in the new cover their tobacco habit has been consigned to the ashtray - the cigarettes have magically disappeared. The Sun
A colour with such superb light-reflecting properties is too useful to be consigned to the dustheap for half the year. Times, Sunday Times
A tie would result in five points for each team, and the terms losing draw and winning draw, with Shackleton's grateful thanks, would be consigned to the dustbin.
Another consigns rugs, getting paid when they're sold.
Only the consignor and the auction house know the reserve.
Anyone wishing to consign works to the sale should contact him for a valuation.
Thankfully, both these perceptions have now been consigned to history. Times, Sunday Times
He was another minor poet, perhaps unfairly consigned to oblivion.
Is that a force consigned to history? Times, Sunday Times
The vendor of these two pictures had previously consigned them to Thomas Gibson who had been offering them at considerably higher prices.
Last year, Irish-based companies exported more than 400 consignments of dual-use goods worth €1.3bn.
One by one, they will shut until coal mines are finally consigned to history.
Most of what MESDA consigned is Southern furniture. CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News
According to the customs law in China, consignee and consigner of cargoes imported and exported refer to tariff taxpayer.
In later times the most enlightened heathen nations indulged in the sin of Sodom without compunction or shame. are set forth -- before our eyes. suffering -- undergoing to this present time; alluding to the marks of volcanic fire about the Dead Sea. the vengeance -- Greek, "righteous retribution." eternal fire -- The lasting marks of the fire that consumed the cities irreparably, is a type of the eternal fire to which the inhabitants have been consigned. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
As an example, I was given a drug dealer who spoke to his confederates about consignments of marmalade.
Consigned by a disobliging fate to the era of Gladstone and Guizot, he has far less in common with those worthies than with Rafael Trujillo and with Papa Doc.
But one can now be consigned to history. Times, Sunday Times
It was a large consignment of fruit juice. Times, Sunday Times
We also consign jewelry to ebay powersellers.
He consigned the task to the new comer.
It can't hurt, and both the consignment store owner and the consigner are hoping for a fast sale. Long entry] - A Dress A Day
Screw up spectacularly just once and popular opinion will consign you to the cavalcade of history's bigger dills.
We talked to a couple of consignors and, with their approval, we're going to move them into a tent area with temporary stalls for the sale.
He needs public statements and unmistakable public gestures that consign the Clintons to the past, while upholding their broad political agenda.
Bobby Rush might call the bluff and dare Harry Reid et al. to consign the lone black Senator to the back of the bus. Elections 2006/2008
I am further advised that a temporary hold on consignments of beef products from Canada will remain in place until further information is available from Canada.
Against the backdrop of these feeble intellectual currents lurks the traditionalist discourse that altogether consigns modern science to oblivion and attempts to prop up a fatal mix of mystical and alchemical knowledge.
To me, his main point is that the great clash of civilisations is over - socialism (in all its forms, whether sydicalism, anarchism, communism or national socialism or other) has been consigned to irrelevance.
Black's 8th's definitions of "consign," "consignment," and "consignation" suggest that my previous speculation may be roughly correct .... WordPress.com News
The bulk of the latest consignment is unmilled.
The presumption, in the absence of proof, is, that the consignee is the agent of the shipper. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter
Thankfully, both these perceptions have now been consigned to history. Times, Sunday Times
I glumly consign a notebook packed full of rib-ticklers about bratwurst and square-headed men with no sense of humour to the bin.
While that is sometimes the case, especially with larger distributors, a savvy buyer can often find other distributors willing to provide a service such as consigned inventory in-plant store by shopping around. Purchasing - Top Stories
And at the end of it all comes the final, the ultimate audit when our lives hang in the balance before we are consigned to eternal reward, or to the other place, based on the audit of how we lived our lives.
Already consigned to the history books in that sense. Times, Sunday Times
What you call crankiness in old people, so trying to the younger generations, does not arise from natural hatefulness of disposition and a released congenital selfishness, but from atrophying glands, and, no doubt, a subtle rebellion against nature for consigning men to ineptitude when they should be entering upon their best period of usefulness, and philosophical as well as active enjoyment of life. Black Oxen
The operation, code-named ‘Chameleon’ began on January 15, 2004, when police in Munich were tipped off by Turkish police about a consignment of heroin which was about to be trafficked from Turkey to Western Europe.
Then, as Americans, they found themselves consigned to a perpetual state of 'otherness' - twice treated as strangers in their own land. Hamdan Azhar: Strangling Gaza and the Radicalization of Political Discourse
Critics last night warned that consigning the sprawling army camp to history would not defuse the furious row over the ill-treatment meted out to teenagers entrusted to the care of commanders at the site.
I know - I saw what a free market without independent courts and democratic accountability did to Russia in the 1990s, consigning millions to extreme poverty and making a few unbelievably rich.
The master air waybill named the freight forwarder LEP as consignor, and the freight forwarder in the United Kingdom as consignee.
After many reprieves, the company, one of South Australia's biggest employers, may be consigned to history tonight.
We're now invited to consign our art works to his oblivion. Times, Sunday Times
Charges for such services were mutually agreed between the consignee and carter, payment often being by way of barter for household or farm commodities.
The tedious tasks we have to do today will be consigned to history. Times, Sunday Times
After that they were consigned to a tackling chore of grinding intensity.
Aside from the violence the decision does to the rule of law, it has consigned at least one more generation of minorities to hard labor under the stigma of perceived incompetency.
Other smaller consignments were also stopped, ranging in size from 14 kg to 50 kg blocks, as the drugs were shuffled from storage places to dealers across the south.
I isolated four or five boxes of computer programming and software engineering books, sighed, and consigned them to the heap to go off for recycling.
The time has come, say its critics, to shrug it off, to clear it from the desk, to consign it to outer darkness.
Accurate filling of application forms for grant aid is essential as an incomplete form is usually consigned to the dustbin.
Suddenly it occurs to you there are worse possibilities out there than having your musical tastes and fashion sense consigned to the junk heap of fogydom.
As Emerald's jackets came out of their Cellophane wrappers, she was there to see there was no damage to the consignment. YELLOW BIRD
We're now invited to consign our art works to his oblivion. Times, Sunday Times
The December 2001 seizure of the multiton consignment of cocaine aboard the vessel Macel in the Mexican Pacific port of Manzanillo bolstered the evidence against her, because cell phone records found on the boat subsequently tied the cargo to Avila Beltrán and Espinoza Ramírez, who was also arrested in Mexico City on the night of her capture two weeks ago. Underworld Queenpin
Redeem yourself or forever be consigned to history's judgment of political turncoats, renegades and saboteurs.
The influx of Europeans into North America led the Indian populations to displacement and eventually to consignation on reservations. The Official Website of Representative David Duke, PhD
It's easy these days to be sniffy about hybrid tea roses and consign them to the compost heap of postwar fashion. Times, Sunday Times
By turning its back on Bradford City the council is consigning part of the soul of a once-proud city to the dustbin of history.
They can't just consign me to the scrap heap because I'm over fifty!
The sea waybill also allows the consignor to vary his delivery instructions to the carrier at any time during the carriage.
There was a political movement against tea-drinking in the 18th century, after the British imposed penal duties and the Boston hotheads famously dumped a consignment in the harbour.
a flood, a tornado, a strike, or a famine, there would go hurrying a generous consignment of the "Aglaia" at its "nothing" price. Sixes and Sevens
So we agree with doctors who want it consigned to history. The Sun
admonitus locorum" was the monument of Wellesley, who lies here, having been consigned, at his own request, to the earth he had loved so well in life. A Visit To Eton
GRACE: Unless the consigner is 7-month-old Dannielynn Smith, I agree with Kahan. CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2007
Various items have been seized in recent days and weeks, ranging from illicit consignments of cigarettes to more egregious commodities such as illegal drugs.
Kevin Whincup also advises that a recent consignment of roach into the front pond should see catches continuing through winter.
That he is now consigned to the lucrative wilderness inhabited by cricket's freelance mercenaries is sad but not surprising. Times, Sunday Times
They consigned him to the two-year-olds in training sale but he once again returned unsold on a final bid of $145,000.
The take not used, the part not won, consigned him to a profitable but frustrating secondary status in the Hollywood hierarchy.
All invoices also state the consignment's ultimate destination.
It would be a crying shame if they were consigned to the history books. Times, Sunday Times
‘I would say the number of lookers is down about a third,’ said Helen as potential buyers examined her consignment on Sunday.
So quickly does the present become the past, and all of us are consigned to history. Times, Sunday Times
In Nigeria, huge consignments of drugs expired due to lack of effective controls and delivery procedures.
The kitchens were shut up and mothballed, and consigned to dusty history as a storage shed for garden equipment. Times, Sunday Times
Total or Constructive Total Loss of the whole consignment hereby insured caused in the course of transit by natural calamities: heavy weather, lightning, tsunami, earthquake and flood.
The implacable Destiny which consigns the brothers to mutual enmity and mutual destruction, for the guilt of a past generation, involving a Mother and a Sister in their ruin, spreads a sombre hue over all the poem; we are not unmoved by the characters of the hostile Brothers, and we pity the hapless and amiable Beatrice, the victim of their feud. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
But as matters stand, Scotland are in limbo, consigned to treading a tightrope with players balancing jobs and sport.
Frontier trade is centered on the low - cost consumable supplies and consignation trade.
The family doctor has now been consigned to history and no amount of political input will revive him. Times, Sunday Times

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