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The prints, which were being consigned to a Melbourne art dealer, Gino Nibbi, are to be destroyed.

Other previously secret CIA files reveal the "involuntary" 1970 retirement of McCord and Hunt's frustration with being consigned to a desk job after covert anti-Castro operations.

It's hardly being consigned to a "part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone" (Rev. 21 8), but it certainly isn't fun.

Mr. Pabon was being consigned to a long and potentially dangerous imprisonment, the judge said, because of "the heedless use of mandatory sentencing statutes, and the intransigence of the government in pursuing this Draconian remedy".

The journey between cities hardly equated to a voortrek but being consigned to a small aeroplane seat on a packed flight for two hours is not the most advisable policy for professional sportsmen, especially tall fast bowlers whose limbs need to spread.

If he were to run for president, he could easily end up proving a kind of Fred Thompson-Rudy Giuliani hybrid — a late-entering Northeastern moderate savior figure who never figures out how to campaign effectively and ends up being consigned to a spoiler role.

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Their water canon had been consigned to a museum.

He was consigned to a detention center, but he slipped out a window and vanished again.

Strollers have been consigned to a parking room, complete with a garage's painted lines.

So Gwyn, too, is consigned to a life of waiting for Robin -- but not patiently.

Three prosperous generations later, the whole affair was consigned to a footnote in Canton's history.

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