| A variant of this sense is one with strong negative associations: consign to the dustbin, consign to oblivion, consigned to years of misery. |
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| I had made him speak, on behalf of all those he had wanted to consign to oblivion. |
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| To consign to oblivion the memory of these gallant suffering few would be culpable injustice. |
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| The current one has proved to be rather unwieldy in practice and I shall be glad to consign it to history. |
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| 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. |
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| The Customer, or an agent of the Customer, shall consign the shipment directly to the actual transporting freight carrier. |
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| Traditional architects must wake up from dreams of ancient techniques that consign them to little things and low horizons. |
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| Or perhaps we can follow the lead of English soccer leagues, which regularly consign teams with losing records to second tier divisions. |
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| At best, the advocates of this approach consign themselves to a relevance bound by the walls of the academy. |
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| And all turning out in such a way, quite likely, as to consign another batch of politicians to the status of footnotes in history. |
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| Oh, but doesn't village life automatically consign you to a cultural desert? |
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| Screw up spectacularly just once and popular opinion will consign you to the cavalcade of history's bigger dills. |
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| I glumly consign a notebook packed full of rib-ticklers about bratwurst and square-headed men with no sense of humour to the bin. |
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| 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. |
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| We should be careful not to conflate the practice of appeasement with the idea of appeasement, and thereby consign it, willy-nilly, to damnation. |
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| While we are in the business of exploding some myths, there are a few others that I would like to consign to oblivion. |
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| There is a rush among some fans and pundits to consign Benitez's predecessor to the knacker's yard of football history. |
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| The decision to consign the handling of prison detainees to the private sector is just more substantiation of this lamentable shift. |
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| The time has come, say its critics, to shrug it off, to clear it from the desk, to consign it to outer darkness. |
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| They might be able to consign the civil war to a tragic chapter of history. |
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| Anyone wishing to consign works to the sale should contact him for a valuation. |
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| The decisions taken in Madrid will consign to history the artificial lines of division imposed by the Cold War. |
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| To me this headline just exemplifies the oafishness of the whole idea that to consign something to history means to ignore it. |
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| And why would she consign herself to lame-duck status, even if two years from now that might be her intention? |
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| If all small countries endorse this, we will fortunately be able to consign this nonsense of Mr Giscard d'Estaing's to the scrap heap. |
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| I had only intended to give it a cursory scan, but three hours later I was still there, unable to consign anything to the bin. |
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| We either try to improve the product and market it effectively within the court of public opinion, or we consign the whole project to oblivion. |
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| Does enlargement consign the project of the founding fathers to history, or does it force today's political leaders to go back to basics? |
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| Failure will consign the poorest 40 percent of the world's population-some 2.6 billion people-to a future of diminished opportunity. |
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| The passenger may consign articles and animals as registered luggage in accordance with the General Conditions of Carriage. |
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| We cannot consign it to oblivion and indifference to the neediest in our societies. |
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| In order to bid, it is necessary to consign the price to the clerk's office. |
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| Those who have been ill received by a woman they love think of nothing but the inconstancy, treachery, and other stock faults of the fair sex; all of which they consign to oblivion. |
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| When he asserted that the entire book should be athetized, he became one of the first in a long line of scholars to consign the entire book to the status of a book fragment. |
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| But Gray's treatment of these memorials is highly ironic, for he lets us see that in them the dead consign their fates in written form to non-readers. |
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| Tomorrow, we will have to consign other laws to the wastepaper basket. |
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| With a voice thick with tears, Collins told Fajuri he had stopped performing in 2000 and it was time to consign the piece. |
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| That may be because it is the only state in the union which allows a simple 7-5 verdict by a jury to consign someone to death. |
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| Her fourth born child, Brian, was diagnosed with nonverbal autism, but she refused to consign him to an institution. |
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| What she personified is precisely what Clegg wants to consign to the movement's past. |
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| I have a review copy clogging up my shelves, which I can now happily consign to the trash can. |
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| It shall be strictly prohibited to import, consign to a warehouse or a free zone or transit sound recordings, or works that are imitations of sound recordings or works enjoying legal protection in Lebanon. |
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| Both teams would do well to consign this video to the waste bin. |
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| If we allow the state to sweep away the normal walls of privacy that protect the details of our lives, we will consign ourselves psychologically to living in a fishbowl. |
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| Their natural shortsightedness leads many of them to believe that a whole new age has dawned, and to consign to irrelevancy all that has gone before. |
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| The principal is liable for any damage arising from any omission or any imprecision in instructions or from the failure to consign the things or any irregularity in the documents. |
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| Airex Industries will manufacture the equipment to your specifications and then consign the unit to you for a no-obligations demonstration and trial period. |
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| It would now take a freak series of results to consign Kirkcaldy to relegation. |
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| The series three announcement means that it might now be time to consign Broadchurch to the bin marked shows that unnecessarily outlived their welcome. |
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| Government ministers consign most to these reports to the rubbish bin. |
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| This proposal, which is being rolled out for consultation, is designed to consign heightism to the dustbin of history. |
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| And we're all the poorer if we consign people who still have much to contribute to the sofa through an unfounded belief that this will automatically benefit younger generations. |
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| As a result, Brian Kenny, a sportscaster, has led the charge for teams, fans and media to consign the misleading metric to the dustbin of history. |
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| Recognize the human dignity of those concerned by working with them to devise benchmarks so that the minimum income does not consign them to second-class citizenship but promotes inclusion. |
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| Our research suggests that the world already has the finance, technology and capacity to consign the water crisis to history, just as surely as today's rich countries did a century ago. |
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| Whatever divided us before let us consign to the past. |
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| The issue of climate change is much too serious to consign to boredom. |
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| During my stay with you, I will also consign the Instrumentum Laboris, a working document in view of the Special Assembly for the Middle East of the Synod of Bishops to be held later this year in Rome. |
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| Ethiopia, in particular, was targeted by traffickers who attempted to consign two shipments of pseudoephedrine and one shipment of ephedrine totalling 12.5 tons. |
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| Round 1, Round 6, Croke Park DUBLIN 0-8 DERRY 0-4 BACK-TO-BACK Allianz league champions came good at the death with four late points to consign Derry to relegation. |
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