consign someone/something to something

Examples of consigned

consigned

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The political inference was that if all gender differentiation was historically contingent it could be consigned to a remote, irrecoverable past.
The work is suitable for a general audience, as equations have been consigned to a comprehensive mathematical appendix.
By 1985, 58.8 % of the tuna catch was consigned to domestic markets.
The welfare consensus was consigned to its pauper's grave, seemingly financially and ideologically bankrupt.
The compound noun *sigel-rad 'sun' can thus be consigned to whatever place ghost-words go to retire.
Individual style may be consigned to the psychological blackbox of quirk and creativity, but collective style demands a more accessible, structural explanation.
Yet that doesn't mean that their duet need be consigned to the ' second-hand bin' of history.
There is too much restatement of material that can be found elsewhere or at least could be consigned to appendices.
The book would be more appealing if most of the tables were consigned to the appendix or omitted altogether.
For the greed and neediness, the divisiveness, for the communities consigned to the underclass.
She is consigned to music in the very same way as a patient is to analysis.
Such drama has been consigned to the realm of theatrical artefacts, held up as epitomes of 'culture', or suitable subjects for academic study.
Again the indigenous peoples of the region are consigned to an anachronistic space outside of the temporality of economic and social development.
The colony was forgotten by their former countrymen and consigned to oblivion by cultural baggage carried from a different environment.
Monitoring is consigned to institution heads, which invites an almost unrealistic administrative burden.
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